Datalight Opens Branch Office In Cambridge, England.CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999--Datalight Inc. a provider of system software announced today that it has opened a sales and support office in Europe in order to take advantage of new business opportunities in this increasingly unified marketplace. Based in Cambridge, England, Datalight Europe Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Datalight Incorporated in Arlington, Washington Arlington is a city located in northern Snohomish County, Washington, USA, bordered by the city of Marysville to the south. As of the 2004 census, the city had a total population of 14,491. , USA. "Europe has made significant strides in the last few years toward creating a nearly borderless economic community." Stated Tim Gillman, Vice President of Marketing and International Sales at Datalight. "It is our intent to take full advantage of this burgeoning market by pro-actively seeking out new business opportunities and strategic alliances." Gillman continues, "This location will allow Datalight the opportunity to provide a higher level of support for our customers as well as an established network of independent distributors throughout Europe." A privately held organization, Datalight has been providing embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. since the company was founded in 1983. Datalight currently has strategic relationships with microprocessor, flash component and industrial/consumer computer manufacturers worldwide. Hidden nearly everywhere, Datalight's software can be found in products from Intel, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Hitachi, Lucent, Canon, Nokia and numerous other companies that provide products for a multitude of industrial and consumer applications. Datalight Europe Limited will be located only 58 miles outside of London in Cambridge, England. Because of its close proximity to London, skilled labor force, and relationship to Cambridge University Cambridge University, at Cambridge, England, one of the oldest English-language universities in the world. Originating in the early 12th cent. (legend places its origin even earlier than that of Oxford Univ. , this community is quickly being recognized as the UK's premier location for information, R&D, and design technologies. Datalight joins a list of over 1,500 international high-tech companies that have selected Cambridge as a strategic location for European operations. Some of these companies include Hitachi, Toshiba, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Xerox. Clive Watts will serve as Managing Director at the new facility. Clive has a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and over 15 years of experience with industrial electronic control products and systems. For the last five years, Clive has been working as Product Marketing Manager/Software Manager at Arcom where he gained first-hand experience with Datalight software. Datalight develops and licenses professional quality system software that includes operating systems and development tools for the PC Architecture. The company's products include: ROM-DOS(TM), a compact, flexible 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. compatible operating system: FlashFX(TM), a portable and full-featured flash file system; WinLight(TM), a Windows work-alike GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ; Sockets, a TCP/IP stack for ROM-DOS and WinLight and the DL BIOS(TM), designed specifically for AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. processors. Throughout the world, numerous companies, representing various technologies, depend on Datalight software for a multitude of industrial and consumer applications. More information on Datalight products can be found at the Datalight website: www.datalight.com |
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