EPiCON Signs Value-added Reseller Agreement With Peripheral Innovations, Inc.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1997-- Leading Citrix Reseller to Expand Web Application Access Solutions With EPiCON's ALTiS EPiCON(tm) Inc., developer of ALTiS(tm), software that enables the immediate access and use of Windows(r) applications across corporate intranets and the Internet, today announced a value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. agreement with Peabody, Mass.-based Peripheral Innovations, Inc. Peripheral Innovations, a networking solutions firm specializing in LAN/WANS, Enterprise Servers, Operating Systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , Network Management and Internet/Intranet Services, joins the growing number of leading resellers participating in EPiCON's recently introduced Certified Channel Partners Program. "Our customers have been seeking a way to offer cost effective and widespread access to their business-critical applications and capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the promise of the Web as the ultimate computing platform See platform. ," says Jeff Peters Jeff Peters is a consultant, author and speaker whose work is widely known in the Fusebox community. He has written several books, both for New Riders and Proton Arts, and articles for magazines including ColdFusion Developers Journal and Pocket PC Magazine. , vice president of Peripheral Innovations, Inc. "Peripheral has extensive experience in implementing Citrix solutions for Web application access and has been searching for a complementary solution to expand our offering. Finally, in ALTiS, we've found a win-win solution that will enable our valued customers to do just this, without rewriting existing applications or purchasing additional expensive servers." EPiCON President and COO, Jack Sweeney adds, "The rapid pace of sign-on among top Value Added Resellers in our Certified Channel Partners Program demonstrates the high corporate demand for more efficient Web application access solutions. Never has a product offered such dramatic savings and results while still leveraging existing technology and infrastructure." 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 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. . It dramatically reduces the complexity and cost of desktop ownership while leveraging investment in existing business-critical applications. EPiCON's Certified Channel Partners Program EPiCON's Certified Channel Partners Program has broad appeal to resellers in the intranet/Internet product and services, LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network networks, application deployment and remote access sectors. Certified Channel Partners will benefit from a large array of service and support value add-ons, including Intranet Planning, Web- Enabling, Installation and Deployment Services and Support and Maintenance. Coupled with comprehensive technical and marketing support, the program also offers numerous bonus promotions designed to reward successful partners. For more information on the EPiCON Certified Channel Partners Program, please call (781) 684-0060 or visit the company's site on the World Wide Web at www.epicon.com . About EPiCON Headquartered in Waltham, Mass., EPiCON was founded to provide solutions that allow the immediate access and use of applications over the Web (intranet/Internet). EPiCON, a privately-held company, combines a strong management team and a prominent board of directors which includes: Ray Stata, chairman of Analog Devices; 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. EPiCON, ALTiS and Fit Client are trademarks of EPiCON, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Schwartz Communications, Inc. Brenda Suarez or Doug Russell 781/684-0770 brendas@schwartz-pr.com dougr@schwartz-pr.com |
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