Caliber Learning Network, Inc. to Deliver On-Demand Internet-based Training for IBM Development Customers Worldwide.Business Editors/High Tech Writers BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 Caliber Learning Network, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLBR CLBR Costa Linda Beach Resort (Aruba) ) today announced that IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) will use Caliber to produce live training sessions, in support of its recently announced S/390(a) Application Development Solution. These sessions will then be enabled for Internet delivery and hosted on Caliber's servers for global on-demand (asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. ) IBM customer access. "We want our customers to be able to use appropriate training vehicles to leverage their critical application development resources for e-business and application modernization," said Joe Damassa, vice president, IBM Application Development Marketing. "By combining IBM's instructors and course content with Caliber's production and Internet delivery capabilities, we are providing an effective, efficient solution that meets a critical need for our customers." Emil Hatz, Caliber's vice president of sales commented, "We are extremely pleased that IBM has chosen Caliber to help meet this immense training opportunity. With Caliber's state-of-the-art configuration of broadband Internet See broadband. technologies and content expertise, IBM's trainers and product experts will be available to customers anywhere and at any time." As successive Internet-delivered courses are produced and hosted by Caliber, IBM will have the capability to quickly build a comprehensive global training library to support the VisualAge(a) and S/390 Application Development Solution customers. IBM customers will be able to access high-impact, interactive instruction whenever and wherever they want to. Through this initiative, Caliber is providing IBM with turn-key solutions to help accelerate the speed, scope and scale of learning. Caliber will also draw on its award-winning instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of resources to assist IBM in developing content for this comprehensive training effort. About IBM's S/390 Application Development Solution IBM's S/390 Application Development Solution provides a pre-configured S/390-based development environment that allows customers to prototype new e-business applications and update existing applications in an isolated, productive, and safe environment. By integrating the S/390 with IBM's state-of-the-art VisualAge family of workstation-based application development tools, this offering helps customers energize en·er·gize v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es v.tr. 1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood existing IT investments and grow new programming skills to meet the emerging e-business programming paradigm A programming paradigm is a fundamental style of programming regarding how solutions to problems are to be formulated in a programming language. (Compare with a methodology, which is a style of solving specific software engineering problems). . For more information about the IBM S/390 Application Development Solution, visit www.S390.ibm.com/ads About Caliber Learning Network, Inc. Caliber Learning Network, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLBR) is a leader in Internet-based learning services. Through its WebCORE suite of learning products and services, Caliber enables its corporate clients to transform their traditional classroom programs either for live Internet broadcast to WebCORE classrooms, workplace desktops or home PCs - or for access through WebCORE on-demand hosting services. Caliber's partnerships with leading universities and other providers of professional development, training and education programs further extend their clients' access to content targeted to their specific learning needs. For more information about Caliber, visit the company's Web site: www.caliber.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. language: This release may include information that could constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Any such forward-looking statements may involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any future results encompassed within the forward- looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include those matters disclosed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission (a) Signifies trademark of IBM. |
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