Beyond.com Corporation Announces Launches New eStore for LynuxWorks; Online Store Will Offer BlueCat Linux and Development Tools for the Embedded Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2001 Beyond.com Corporation (Nasdaq:BYND), a leading provider of e-commerce technology and services, today announced the launch of an eStore for LynuxWorks, a leader in the Linux-embedded systems market. Beyond.com designed and build the online store for LynuxWorks' embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. products, including the popular BlueCat Linux operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Beyond.com also provides customer support, marketing and other e-commerce services for LynuxWorks. The eStore (http://shop.lynuxworks.com) officially launched Oct. 8, 2001. "The popularity of the Linux operating system and related applications presents tremendous opportunities to sell LynuxWorks' suite of tools online," said Ron Hulse, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Beyond.com Corporation. "Outsourcing e-commerce initiatives to Beyond.com continues to be a popular choice for companies that are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the best solution for selling their products online. We are very pleased to have LynuxWorks as our latest eStore client, and we look forward to providing an excellent online shopping experience for their customers." "Beyond.com's combination of eStore technology and services provides a complete solution that is the right fit for our specific needs," said Bob Morris, vice president of marketing for LynuxWorks. "This eStore creates a significant new opportunity for LynuxWorks to showcase and sell our products to a broader customer base." About Beyond.com Corporation Beyond.com Corporation is a leading provider of e-commerce technology and services. The company builds, manages and markets online stores (eStores) for businesses. Beyond provides a full suite of marketing programs and services to help maximize its client's eStore sales activities and increase revenues. The company also sells software and computer-related products to the government, corporate and consumer markets. Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "BYND." More information on the company can be found in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), or by visiting www.beyond.com. About LynuxWorks LynuxWorks is a world leader in the embedded software market, providing operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , software development products and consulting services for the world's most successful communications, aerospace/defense, and consumer products companies. Established in 1988, the company is a founding member of the real-time operating systems (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) industry, and a leading participant in the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC ELC Early Learning Centre (UK) ELC Environmental Law Centre (Canada) ELC Environmental Learning Center (Vero Beach, FL) ELC Education Law Center ELC Early Learning Coalition ). LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . The company's products include the open-source BlueCat Linux and the scalable, Linux-compatible LynxOS real-time operating system. World class companies use LynuxWorks' products, including: 3Com, Alcatel, Boeing, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. , Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Marconi, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. USA, Raytheon, TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc and Xerox. For more information, please visit www.lynuxworks.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement Certain statements in this press release 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. These include statements relating to the company's ability to provide customer support, marketing, and other services, the ability to create an excellent online shopping experience for LynuxWorks' customers, the ability to create a comprehensive e-commerce solution that is the right fit for LynuxWorks, and the ability to create significant new opportunities for LynuxWorks to offer products to a broader customer base. Such statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from any future performance suggested above. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, the early termination of the contract, the popularity of the Linux operating system, and related applications the potential for the LynuxWorks eStore, Beyond.com Corporation's business is subject to other risks, including 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 market acceptance of the company's new profitability initiatives, as well as other risk factors described in the company's filings with the SEC. Beyond.com Corporation news and product/service information is available at the company's World Wide Web site located at http://www.beyond.com. |
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