ENlighten Software Solutions Adds Global Connections International to Channels Partner Program.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)--Sept. 23, 1996--ENlighten Software Solutions Inc. (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 :SFTW SFTW Something for the Weekend (band) ), formerly known as Software Professionals Inc., today announced it has signed an agreement with Global Connections Global Connections is a charitable organisation acting as a UK network of mission agencies, churches, colleges and support agencies involved in evangelism around the world. Amongst the several hundred organisations and churches that are members of the Global Connections network are many International (GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter GCI Getty Conservation Institute GCI Global Commerce Initiative GCI Green Cross International (non-profit international environmental organization) GCI Growth Competitiveness Index GCI Great Cities Institute ) for the distribution of ENlighten Software Solutions' products in Latin America. GCI is comprised of more than 10 local distribution companies servicing the major Latin American markets of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. "Global Connections' powerful network of experienced distributors is absolutely key to effectively addressing the rapidly growing markets of Latin America," said Byron Jacobs, vice president of sales, support and marketing for ENlighten Software Solutions. "The result of this explosive growth has been the increasing inability of companies to manage their information systems, especially when they are running multiple platforms," He added, "Our low-cost, cross-platform systems management solution is ideally suited to meet the growing management needs of this region. With GCI as our strategic partner, ENlighten Software is well-positioned for success in Latin America." According to an August 1995 report by International Data Corporation, Latin America is the fastest growing information technology (IT) market in the world. Specifically, the 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). market is growing at a rate of 46 percent per year, with an overall IT growth of 12 percent. "We are very excited about the opportunity to market ENlighten's products in Latin America," said Charles Warhaftig, president of GCI. "This market is in dire need of systems management solutions that are easy to use and, more importantly, very low in cost. Given that, ENlighten/DSM 2.0 is better equipped to address these specific needs than any other product on the market today." In addition to ENlighten Software Solutions' established systems management products for the Tandem Computer market, GCI will distribute the recently released ENlighten for UNIX Distributed Systems Manager 2.0, a low-cost, enterprise-wide systems management solution optimized for distributed corporate intranets running multiple UNIX operating systems. Founded in 1986, ENlighten Software Solutions Inc. provides distributed systems management software solutions for the UNIX/Open Systems and Tandem marketplaces. The Company's ENlighten for UNIX product suite provides system management solutions for heterogeneous UNIX systems including Sun Microsystems, 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) , Hewlett-Packard, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. . The company maintains a leadership position in the Tandem market, providing a range of automated systems management products to a client base of over 425 companies in 34 countries. CONTACT: ENlighten Software Solutions, Inc. Byron Jacobs, 415/578-0700 byron_jacobs@sftw.com or Global Connections, Inc. Charlie Warhaftig, 201/848-7878 globalcon@interactive.net or Pacifico,Inc. Matthew Bell, 408/293-8600 mbell@pacifico.com |
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