Corel Offers eFax Services With Corel LINUX OS Deluxe.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1999-- eFax.com Provides Special `20 Page Free' Sending Promotion for Online and Retail Distribution eFax.com(TM) (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 :EFAX), the world's leading Internet provider of fax-to-email services, today announced a distribution partnership with Corel(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL CORL Corel Corporation (stock symbol) CORL Coalition of Reef Lovers CORL capital outlay revenue limit CORL change-orientated reflective listening (psychotherapy) CORL Central Ontario Ringette League ) to offer its eFax(R) Free service and a trial for sending faxes with every Corel LINUX(R) OS Deluxe version software package. This alliance extends eFax.com's reach into small businesses and home offices (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) through online and traditional retail distribution. In addition to helping generate eFax brand awareness, this agreement aids in the incremental expansion of the eFax.com subscriber-base. Offered throughout the U.S. and Canada, the eFax "20 Page Free" promotion will initially be made available to tens of thousands of users via retail distribution and to thousands more users via the Internet. eFax.com has amassed more than 1.4 million subscribers since its launch in February of this year. "Our Corel LINUX OS Deluxe software, coupled with the bundled eFax promotional service offering, has helped to enhance the functionality and overall value of our distribution. It also supports our goal of bringing the power of Linux to the desktop," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "Corel is an important brand for us to be working with," said Rudy Prince, 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 eFax.com. "They have broad distribution to help us extend the reach of our brand. Importantly, they are helping us move further into the Linux community with their LINUX OS Deluxe software." What Corel LINUX OS Deluxe Users Get The agreement between Corel and eFax.com provides Corel LINUX OS Deluxe users with the eFax Free fax-to-email service and 20-pages of FREE fax sending using a trial of the eFax service. An icon in the form of the eFax.com "swirl" resides on the bundle CD distributed with retail and web versions of the Corel LINUX OS Deluxe software. After loading the CD, Corel Linux users simply click on the eFax.com swirl icon and they are linked to an eFax.com co-branded website, at which point they are given the option to sign-up for their FREE eFax number. At this point, the user simply follows the prompts and their FREE eFax number is assigned within minutes. About Corel Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity applications. Development of market-leading products such as the CorelDRAW(R) line of graphics applications and the Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of the corporate, retail and academic markets. Committed to value, compatibility, choice and open standards, Corel develops products for the Windows(R), Macintosh(R), 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). (R), Linux(R) and Java(TM) platforms. Corel's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol CORL and on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. under the symbol COR. For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com. About eFax.com eFax.com (NASDAQ: EFAX) is a leading provider of Internet unified messaging solutions. By providing unique telephone numbers to its more than 1.4 million subscribers, eFax.com has become the leading provider of Internet telephony messaging. The company is expanding its range of unified messaging products to accelerate its lead in Internet telephony beyond its initial offering of the world's first free fax-to-email service. The company markets its Internet services via its own eFax.com web site in addition to its many affiliates and co-brand partners including Phone.com, Network Solutions, WebTV, XOOM XOOM Extraction of Object Oriented Software Metrics .com, fortunecity.com, eGroups, FindLaw and AllBusiness.com. Founded in 1988, eFax.com has over a decade of experience in developing and licensing its telecommunications and document communications technologies to major 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 partners. eFax.com is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. For more information, call 1-877-EFAXCOM; fax (650) 326-6003; or visit: www.efax.com. The statements in this press release relating to matters that are not historical are forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties facing eFax.com are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , Form S-3, and Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. (www.sec.gov). (c) 1999 eFax.com. All rights reserved. |
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