Claris Corporation to add new distributor for its award-winning software applications; Claris broadens reach in VAR community through Tech Data agreement.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)--June 21, 1995--Claris Corporation announced today that it has extended U.S. distribution rights of its full line of award-winning software products to Tech Data, a leading distributor of personal computer products serving more than 50,000 value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. (VARs) and retail dealers worldwide, effective next month. The agreement will make Claris software solutions more widely available to VARs serving customers in small business, one of the key market segments for Claris products. Claris software will continue to be distributed in the U.S. by Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. Inc., the world's largest privately held distributor of micro-computer products, and Merisel, the world's largest publicly held international computer products distributor. "The partnership with Tech Data expands our channel presence with the important community of small VARs that Tech Data excels in serving," said Ira Kaye, Claris vice president of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. sales. "This distribution agreement is an excellent complement to our existing strong distribution relationships that have enabled Claris to so successfully grow its share of the Macintosh and Windows markets." "Partnering with Claris is an important step as we continue to grow our software line to include all the key players in the industry," said Terry Bazzone, Tech Data's vice president of software product marketing. "Our VAR customers have shown keen interest in Claris software, especially the excellent cross-platform products such as FileMaker Pro." The Claris product line includes the following cross-platform Windows and Macintosh software This list of Macintosh software reveals prominent Mac OS computer programs. Since the library of Mac OS programs is unmanageable, this list is confined to those programs for which a Wikipedia article exists. applications: ClarisImpact, ClarisDraw (Windows version shipping this fall), ClarisWorks, and FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Server. Other Claris applications include Easy Business Cards for Windows and Claris Organizer Claris Organizer is an organizer software program developed and sold by Claris for the Mac OS during the 1990s. It was sold to Palm when Claris was broken up, and was used as the basis for the Palm Desktop for Mac. , Amazing Animation Amazing Animation was a program published by Claris for the Apple Macintosh in 1994. Amazing Animation was targeted mainly at children and young teenagers, allowing them to produce their own animated short films with relative ease. , MacWrite Pro, MacDraw Pro An earlier Macintosh drawing program marketed by Apple's Claris subsidiary in the early 1990s. It was an upgrade to the original MacDraw software from Apple and eventually became known as ClarisDraw. , MacPaint, and MacProject Pro for Macintosh. Claris Corporation is a leading worldwide vendor of Windows and Macintosh applications for business, home and education and a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. Claris reported revenues for FY94 of $159.7 million and ranks among the 10 largest personal computer applications vendors. -0- Note to Editors: Claris, ClarisDraw, ClarisImpact, ClarisWorks, FileMaker, MacDraw, MacPaint, MacProject and MacWrite are registered trademarks and Amazing Animation, Claris Organizer and Easy Business Cards are trademarks of Claris Corporation. CONTACT: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara Ines Anderson, 408/987-7154 Internet:ines_anderson@claris.com |
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