Connectix Ships Virtual PC with Linux in Japan; Introducing Connectix Virtual PC with Turbo Linux CE, the Easy-to-Use Linux Solution for Mac Users.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2000 Connectix(R) Corporation, makers of the best-selling and award-winning Virtual PC(TM) family of products, today announced it is shipping a new version of its popular Virtual PC with TurboLinux Connectix Edition (CE), from TurboLinux, Inc. a leading provider of open source Linux(R) 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. solutions. Under this agreement, Connectix will ship a Japanese version of Virtual PC with a Japanese version of TurboLinux CE pre-installed and pre-configured, bringing this popular version of Linux, currently available only on PCs, to Mac users in Japan. "We are very pleased that our partnership with Connectix will make our TurboLinux Workstation product available to Macintosh users in Japan. The Japanese Macintosh market is extremely strong, and we are hopeful that the availability of our Linux distribution The Linux operating system packaged for customers for a fee. It includes the Linux kernel, essential operating system components from the GNU Project, an installation program, various open source utilities and applications, documentation and technical support. will give Macintosh users even greater flexibility," said Kuniteru Kojima, president of TurboLinux Japan." The OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Partnership With the Connectix/Turbo Linux partnership, Connectix provides Mac users in Japan with its popular Virtual PC with Linux product, expanding the capability of the Mac, allowing the users to combine the ease and power of the Mac and the Linux OS within one package. The benefits to the Mac users are numerous: get two-computers-in-one, eliminate installation and set-up headaches, easily switch between the two 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. without having to re-boot and take advantage of Virtual PC's friendly user interface. "With this partnership, we continue to build on our success as the leader in cross-platform compatibility and provide yet another new OS capability to the Mac platform for our customers in Japan. We are pleased to bring the leading brand name Linux to the Macintosh users in a pre-installed, easy-to-use Virtual PC solution. Now, Mac users can have Linux up and running in minutes while keeping their current Mac OS just a mouse click away," said Michael Loftus, vice president of Product Management, Connectix Corporation. Connectix's Virtual PC Product Line Connectix's Virtual PC product line bridges the compatibility gap between Mac and PC environments by allowing Mac users to run PC applications, access networks, and share files. Virtual PC 3.0 is currently fully localized in Japanese in four versions: with PC-DOS The DOS operating system originally developed by Microsoft and supplied by IBM on its PCs before Windows 95 became the norm. Up until DOS 6, PC-DOS was almost identical to Microsoft's MS-DOS for non-IBM PCs, and both versions are called "DOS." See "IBM's DOS 6" under DOS 6. , with Windows 98, with Windows 2000 and with Linux pre-installed. Distribution in Japan Connectix Virtual PC with Linux has an suggested retail price of 19,800 Japanese Yen “Yen” redirects here. For the other use, see Yen (disambiguation). “JPY” redirects here. For the Australian singer with the same moniker, see John Paul Young. and will be available in retailers on July 28, 2000. Connectix Virtual PC with Linux CE and the full line of Connectix products are distributed in Japan by: ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. Corporation NetMedia Division 4-33-10 Yoyogi, Shibuya-Ku,Tokyo, 151-8024 Phone : +81-3-5351-8652 Fax : +81-3-5351-8659 Press Contact: Akiko Nakata E-Mail: akik-n@ascii.co.jp URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.ascii.co.jp/netmedia/ MediaVision Kudan ILEX Ilex a bush bearing berries containing saponins; cause vomiting, diarrhea. Called also holly. Building 3F 1-14-21 Kudan Kita, Chiyoda ku Tokyo, 102 Japan Phone: 03-3222-4368 (Press Contact) FAX: 03-3222-3287 Press contact: Naoko Toe E-mail address: toe@mvi.co.jp URL: http://www.mvi.co.jp SystemSoft Corporation 3-10-30 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-8665 Tel: 092-732-1531 Fax: 092-732-1529 E-mail: pr@systemsoft.co.jp URL: http//www.systemsoft.co.jp Connectix Corporation Founded in 1988 and based in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , Connectix is a leader in low cost, high-performance compatibility software, originally entering the market with Virtual, a groundbreaking Macintosh-based product that provided virtual memory. The ever-popular RAM Doubler and Speed Doubler products were then launched in 1994 and 1995, respectively. In 1995, Connectix introduced the industry's first tethered Attached to a data or power source by wire or fiber. Contrast with untethered. digital camera, QuickCam, producing more than one million units before selling the hardware business to Logitech in September 1998. The company continues to develop innovative, award-winning products that allow computer users to use popular software and hardware products from a variety of different platforms. Connectix remains focused on new technologies and products that meet the demands of an emerging multi-platform, internet-driven business environment. For more information on Virtual PC and other Connectix products, please visit their web site at http://www.connectix.com/. Note to Editors: Apple, PowerBook, Power Macintosh, and iMac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark of Macintosh Laboratories, Inc. licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of Creative Technology Ltd. Microsoft, Windows, and MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. TurboLinux is a registered trademark of TurboLinux, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linux Torvalds. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. Connectix, the Connectix logo, and Connectix Virtual PC are trademarks of Connectix Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders. |
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