BorderWare Technologies Signs Distributor Specializing in UNIX-based Freeware.Business/Technology Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2000 Cylogistics Will Distribute Borderware's e-Business Security Products BorderWare Technologies Inc. (BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information ), a leading network security vendor, today announced that it has signed Cylogistics as a distributor of the complete line of BorderWare e-business security products. Based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. , Cylogistics serves over 500 resellers, value-added resellers, systems integrators and Internet service providers (ISPs) across the United States and Canada. Specializing in products based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (operating system) Berkeley Software Distribution - (BSD) A family of Unix versions developed by Bill Joy and others at the University of California at Berkeley, originally for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 computers, and subsequently ported to almost all modern general-purpose computers. (BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. ) open and commercial versions of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Cylogistics represents the most comprehensive portfolio of BSD-based application software and hardware. "We believe BorderWare's products will enhance our offerings to the more than 500 resellers and ISPs that buy from us on a regular basis," said Don Witt, president of Cylogistics. "We also believe having BorderWare's products on our roster will help us sign up additional security-focused resellers." Cylogistics will represent the full line of BorderWare e-business security solutions. These include the BorderWare Firewall Server, the BorderWare IPSec VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. Client, the BorderWare Document Gateway, the BorderWare Office Gateway and the recently launched BorderWare Mail Gateway. "BorderWare's industrial-strength e-business security products are based on S-CORE, our own hardened version of BSD UNIX, so the BSD community is very important to us," said John Alsop, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BorderWare Technologies. "Cylogistics is known as the one-stop BSD-shop in the United States, and we're very pleased to add it to our list of top-notch distributors." "Security is becoming more and more important to the channel and its customers," added Witt. "We are very impressed with the ease of use and customer orientation of BorderWare's security products. BorderWare has an excellent reputation for professionalism and integrity, and it has a strong, channel-oriented strategy - all of which is very important to Cylogistics." BorderWare offers comprehensive training and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services to ensure its distributors are fully equipped to effectively market BorderWare solutions and to add value for distributors, resellers and customers. BorderWare's comprehensive channel programs include a co-operative marketing program and Market Development Fund to ensure that resellers have the tools and marketing funds necessary to generate awareness and convert prospects to customers. The two companies are planning to team up for trade shows and conferences, including ISPcon 2000 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. . Other co-marketing activities will include advertising and product promotion, according to Witt. About BorderWare Technologies Inc. BorderWare Technologies Inc. is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, England; Frankfurt, Germany; and San Jose, California. BorderWare's mission is to develop and market easy-to-use and highly secure Internet Gateway products and services based on its field-proven S-CORE technology, an industrial-strength operating system that forms the secure kernel of all BorderWare products. The company's flagship product is the BorderWare Firewall Server(TM), an integrated firewall and Internet services gateway. BorderWare's range of no-risk e-business solutions includes VPN client-server solutions and the BorderWare Document Gateway(TM), the BorderWare Office Gateway(TM) and the BorderWare Mail Gateway(TM). BorderWare Technologies Inc. is the only company worldwide with EAL EAL English as an Additional Language EAL Evaluation Assurance Level EAL Eastern Airlines EAL Emergency Action Level EAL Environmental Analysis Laboratory EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) 4 certified firewall technology. For more information, visit the BorderWare web site at www.borderware.com. About Cylogistics Based in Mountain View, California, Cylogistics serves the BSD/Internet reseller community as the central source of products for Berkeley Software Design, Inc (company) Berkeley Software Design, Inc - (BSDI) A company that sells BSD/OS, a commercial version of Berkeley Standard Distribution Unix, networking, and Internet technologies originally developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at . (BSDi), FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Apache applications and supported hardware. For more information, visit www.cylogistics.com or call 1-800-407-5170. |
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