GLOBEtrotter Software licenses FLEXlm to Hewlett-Packard, making way for electronic commerce.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1997--GLOBEtrotter Software, Inc. today announced that Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) has signed a software license agreement for FLEXlm, GLOBEtrotter's electronic licensing technology. HP, the second-largest computer supplier in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , will integrate FLEXlm into selected HP software products, to control or monitor the distribution and use of the software by HP's customers. The licensing agreement is in response to the broader need for FLEXlm technology in HP's businesses that offer software products. Through the agreement, GLOBEtrotter and HP are working together to respond to the industry shift to software distribution via CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and the Internet, based on FLEXlm technology. "As GLOBEtrotter's FLEXlm licensing technology is already in such wide use, integrating it into our products makes system administration easier for our customers by providing them with a common means to manage software. FLEXlm technology helps us provide better value to our customers by providing licensing terms that best reflect the value they receive from SoftBench," said Don Boxley, marketing manager for HP's SoftBench product line. Said Richard Mirabella, GLOBEtrotter Software vice president, "We are very happy to see FLEXlm's use expand through the HP organization, especially in products such as SoftBench, the most widely used C and C++ development environment for the HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. platform." Added Mirabella, "With FLEXlm, HP gets a robust, Internet-ready license manager, and saves time and money for customers by adopting the same license management system that most of them already use for other software purchases." About GLOBEtrotter Software With more than 1,200 leading software vendors and 300 Fortune 500 and government site customers, GLOBEtrotter Software, Inc. is the market and technology leader for electronic software distribution and license management solutions. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , GLOBEtrotter is dedicated to providing both software vendors and large scale user sites with comprehensive solutions for maximizing the cost-effectiveness of 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). and PC network desktop software applications in distributed computing environments. GLOBEtrotter's products, available from the company's worldwide direct sales force, support Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. , Windows 95, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , Java, Novell NetWare (operating system, networking) Novell NetWare - Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. , OS/2, VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. and more than 40 UNIX platforms. GLOBEtrotter's corporate headquarters are located in Campbell, Calif. For more information, including a complete overview of GLOBEtrotter's electronic commerce for software technologies, and free software downloads, access the company's Web site at http://www.globetrotter.com . About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. It is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer-related revenue in excess of $31.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. HP has 114,600 employees and had revenue of $38.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com . CONTACT: GLOBEtrotter Software Richard Mirabella, 408/370-2800, ext. 117 rich@globes.com or The Weber Group Jill Shanks, 415/463-8625 jshanks@ca.webergroup.com |
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