Beyond.com Celebrates 'America Recycles Day'; Electronic Software Distribution Provides Clean, Green Fuel for Computer Users.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1998--What will those wacky, green Californians think of next? Employees of leading Internet software reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. Beyond.com(tm) (Nasdaq:BYND) will gather at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, for a 60-second, all-employee raucous rau·cous adj. 1. Rough-sounding and harsh: raucous laughter. 2. Boisterous and disorderly: "the raucous give and take of American democracy" cheer in honor of customers who buy software electronically, using 100 percent recycled electrons. The roaring ROARING. A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat or other topical inflammation. 2. customer tribute is in observation of California Celebrates America Recycles Day, a state-wide tribute to recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 15. "In the past four years, Beyond.com customers have electronically downloaded enough software to create a cardboard Cardboard is a generic non-specific term for a heavy duty paper based product. Paperboard
Paperboard is a paper based material. It is often used for folding cartons, set-up boxes, carded packaging, etc. tower of software packaging 121,641 feet high, or four times the height of Mount Everest," said John Pettitt, chief technology officer and environmentalist-in-residence at Beyond.com. Mount Everest stands 29,028 feet tall or approximately five miles high. By downloading more than 800,000 software products over the Internet, Beyond.com customers have saved the equivalent of 23 million floppy disks. "With two-thirds of the American population now actively pro-environment, electronic software distribution provides a clean, green fuel for computer users into the next millennium," Pettitt said. Beyond.com (http://www.beyond.com) has enabled customers to electronically download software since November of 1994, often for lower cost than boxed software titles. Reducing and recycling waste has become standard practice for many Americans, and their employers, since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Californians alone recycled 17 million tons of commercial and residential solid waste in 1997, up from 8.5 million tons in 1990, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Integrated Waste Management Board, a Sacramento-based government agency that oversees waste in California. Downloading software over the Internet straight to their personal computers is one more way Americans can reduce the amount of waste they create and discard. "Downloading software electronically is extremely popular with the U.S. government, which continues to be a leader in electronic software distribution," said Pettitt. "While the U.S. government accounts for about 25 percent of our business, nearly all of that software is delivered electronically, which is great news for the environment." In the third quarter of 1998, approximately 25 percent of Beyond.com's corporate and consumer sales were ESD (1) (Electronic Software Distribution) Distributing new software and upgrades via the network rather than individual installations on each machine. See ESL. . A 1998 study by Wirthlin Worldwide Wirthlin Worldwide was an influential political and business consulting firm founded by Dick Wirthlin. It operated from 1969 to 2004. It ceased to operate as a separate company on September 8, 2004 when it was acquired by Harris Interactive for a combination of stock and cash , an international public opinion organization, found that "two-thirds of Americans consider themselves actively pro-environment ... while only 4 percent were found to be 'unsympathetic' to environmental concerns." About Beyond.com Beyond.com is a leading, online reseller of commercial, off-the-shelf software to the government enterprise, corporate and consumer markets, offering its customers a better way to buy software. Visitors to the company's online store (http://www.beyond.com) enjoy a comprehensive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Approximately 30,000 software stock-keeping units (database) stock-keeping unit - (SKU) /skyoo/ (rarely seen expanded) A common term for a unique numeric identifier, typically in a database. Originally this was used only for products, but has spread in usage. Compare with UID for sense development. (SKUs) are available for online purchase with more than 3,300 SKUs available for immediate, electronic delivery, including software from such major publishers as Adobe, Lotus, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Symantec. The company has established strategic marketing alliances with America Online See AOL. , Inc., Excite, Inc. and Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. . Beyond.com is incorporated in Delaware as software.net Corporation. Software.net Corporation has applied for federal registration of the marks BEYOND.COM and SOFTWARE.NET. Beyond.com trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol ("BYND"). To the extent that this news release discusses expectations about software.net (Beyond.com's) ESD business in the third quarter of 1998 and beyond, or plans to grow the business through ESD, these statements are forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results for the fourth quarter of 1998 and subsequent quarters could differ materially from any future performance suggested above. Among the factors that could affect subsequent periods include: Reductions in or cancellations of customer orders, changes in relationships with software suppliers, changes in relationships with strategic partners, changes in the product mix sold by the company, competition from other online software resellers or publishers and other factors described in the company's prospectus dated June 17, 1998, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). |
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