Cambex Becomes Sun iForce(SM) Partner; Cambex and Sun to Provide Mainframe Rehosting Services to Enterprise Customers.WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- Cambex Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :CBEX CBEX China Beijing Equity Exchange ), a leading supplier of solutions for optimizing storage network productivity and application performance, today announced that it has joined 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. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) iForce Partner Program. As part of their iForce partnership, Cambex and Sun will deliver mainframe rehosting solutions and services on SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R)-based Sun Fire(TM) servers to enterprise customers. Current mainframe users are locked into proprietary computing environments where annual staffing, hardware and software costs significantly exceed those of open systems data centers. Migrating mainframe applications to Sun open systems servers has reduced annual hardware and software costs by as much as 75 percent. Typical return on investment is less than 24 months while customers benefit from greater flexibility, scalability and often performance. Cambex and Sun possess the experience, software tools and expertise to migrate business-critical applications from mainframes onto the Sun Fire server line. With rehosting, the front-end of the applications are unchanged allowing customers to use their software without requiring any additional training. "Cambex has over 35 years of experience working with enterprise mainframe customers" said Joseph F. Kruy, Chairman 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 Cambex. "We are confident that by working with an industry leader like Sun, we can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of running a customer's business-critical applications by migrating these applications from IBM mainframes to highly-reliable Sun servers." Sun's iForce Initiative brings together Sun and its best of breed partners worldwide to deliver proven solutions that reduce cost and time to market. The iForce Initiative addresses customers' business objectives by helping to reduce risk and speed time to implementation of solutions that help lower total cost of ownership and increase the productivity of an organization's assets. About Cambex Corporation Cambex has been supplying high-performance, high-availability memory and storage solutions for over 35 years for a wide variety of corporate applications. Our solutions are designed to optimize the performance of storage networks. Fibre Channel products include FibreQuik(TM) Host Bus Adapters and Dynamic Path Failover(TM) software. Memory products include upgrades for 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) , Sun, and HP UNIX servers. Products are sold directly and through qualified resellers, integrators and OEMs. Cambex is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts and can be reached at (508) 983-1200 or on the World Wide Web at www.cambex.com. Forward-looking statements are made in this release pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. 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Investors are cautioned that all forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the timing of new announcements or product introductions by the Company and its competitors, the hiring and retention of key employees, competitive pricing pressures, dependence on third parties for components and products, general economic conditions in the United States and international markets, and the risk factors detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. TRADEMARKS: FibreQuik and Dynamic Path Failover are trademarks of Cambex Corporation. Sun, Sun Microsystems, and iForce are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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