Digital Equipment Corporation and EPiCON Sign World-Wide Reseller Agreement.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1997-- EPiCON, Inc. to Work with Number One Systems Integrator EPiCON, Inc., developer of ALTiS(TM), a new product that enables the instant access, sharing and use of Windows(r) software applications over corporate intranets and the Internet, today announced that the company has entered a partnership with Digital Equipment Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DEC). Digital will resell EPiCON's ALTiS product suite through Digital's 23,000 service professionals in 100 countries. In addition, Digital will provide the ALTiS product suite with intranet/Internet consulting for its clients. The deal is expected to yield EPiCON approximately $7 - $10 million dollars over the next two years. The Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. ranks Digital as one of the top four Internet Integrators, and Computerworld readers recently rated Digital as the number one systems integrator. With ALTiS, Digital's customers will be able to dramatically reduce their software cost of ownership and deliver existing feature-rich unmodified Adj. 1. unmodified - not changed in form or character unqualified - not limited or restricted; "an unqualified denial" modified - changed in form or character; "their modified stand made the issue more acceptable"; "the performance of the modified aircraft applications over the Web today. ALTiS will help Digital's customers gain centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. software management with true distributed processing The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. It started with the first minicomputers. Today, distributed processing is called "distributed computing." See also client/server. . "The ALTiS technology significantly adds to Digital's value proposition," says Robert Daigneault, worldwide manager for Digital's Internet Service Practice. "Through this partnership we continue to offer our customers breakthrough technologies. The speed at which customers will be able to access their applications over the Internet is cutting-edge." "Digital brings impressive strengths to the partnership," says EPiCON President and COO Jack Sweeney. "The Digital team's sales power will quickly put ALTiS at the forefront of the rapidly emerging industry, marking a major step toward fulfilling the tremendous demand for the ALTiS solution. ALTiS offers Digital's customers a solution that reaches the new Web market, yet leverages their investment in existing applications-a priority consideration for every IT manager." About ALTiS ALTiS employs an innovative "Fit Client(TM)" architecture to provide PC users with immediate access to unmodified Windows applications over intranets and the Internet. A user simply clicks on an application icon on a corporate Web site and ALTiS prepares and launches the application on the user's PC. The user does not need to perform an installation or download entire applications over the network. EPiCON's patent-pending technology delivers from a server to the PC, only the components needed to run the application. This "no compromises" approach combines centralized storage and version control with true distributed processing. It dramatically reduces the complexity and cost of desktop ownership (or software implementation, administration and support costs) while leveraging investment in existing business critical applications. About Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation is a leading supplier of high performance, Web-based computing solutions which help enterprises compete in the global marketplace. The expertise and experience of Digital employees help customers to plan, design, implement, manage and support Internet solutions in countries throughout the world. For more information on Digital's Internet services, visit http://www.digital.com/services/nsis/internet/index.htm About EPiCON Headquartered in Waltham, Mass., EPiCON was founded in 1994 to provide solutions that allow the use and sharing of applications over the Web (intranet/Internet). EPiCON, a privately-held company, combines a strong management team and an excellent board of directors which includes: Ray Stata Ray Stata is a cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices, Inc.(NYSE: ADI).[1] A native of Pennsylvania, Stata earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT. In 1965 he founded Analog Devices with MIT classmate Matthew Lorber in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , chairman of Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. ; Stephen Levy, Chairman Emeritus, BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. ; John Landry, Strategic Technology Consultant, 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) , and previous Chief Technology Officer, Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). ; Elliot Katzman, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , Solidworks; and Gary Bowen, former executive vice president of Bay Networks. -0- EPiCON, ALTiS and Fit Client are trademarks of EPiCON, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Digital Equipment Corporation Sue Lawrence-Longo, 978/496-9851 longosu@mail.dec.com or Schwartz Communications, Inc. 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