D&E Communications, Inc. Announces Technology Company Acquisition.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers EPHRATA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000 D&E Communications announced today that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Harrisburg-based computer networking
Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. company, CompuSpirit. CompuSpirit, founded in 1992, consists of a team of 30 predominantly technical experts who install, support and maintain personal computers, Intranet, Internet and networking environments. They offer technical consulting services, programming services and a turnkey process that enables a roll-out of technology throughout the Commonwealth. CompuSpirit staff has achieved technical certification from Microsoft, Novell, 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) , CheckPoint, Legato (Legato Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.legato.com) A leading provider of storage management and high-availability software founded in 1988 and acquired by EMC Corporation in 2003. Legato software, including Celestra data management (data mining, data migration, etc. , Dell and Cisco. Don Kaufmann, Vice President of Corporate Development for D&E Communications, Inc. said, "This acquisition is an additional step in the implementation of D&E's strategic vision to become the local integrated communications provider of choice in Central PA. This further positions D&E to be in the forefront of the convergence of telephone and computer technologies in the region." Ken Rigby, Founder and President of CompuSpirit noted, "We are happy to join with the D&E team. Both organizations share a strong customer service orientation in Central PA, where technology is exploding. Our combined resources will help provide a better level of communication services to customers that both D&E and CompuSpirit serve." D&E Communications is a leading, regional provider of advanced telecommunications and information technology to business and residential customers. Headquartered in Ephrata, PA, D&E currently provides computer and data networking and telephone service. They also offer videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems and long distance, and with PCSONE, digital wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. . D&E Communications is traded on the 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 as DECC DECC Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (Duluth, MN) DECC Defense Enterprise Computing Centers DECC Distance Education Coordinating Council DECC Danish-Estonian Chamber of Commerce (Tallinn, Estonia) . For more information about these companies contact their websites: www.decommunications.com and www.compuspirit.com. |
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