Innovative Software Announces Bundling Agreement With Traveling Software.MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 1998-- Traveling Software will Integrate Innovative's Industry-leading 'Ghost' Workstation Cloning Software Software that copies the full image of a hard disk to another machine via direct cable or the network. Cloning saves time setting up new machines by eliminating the installation of the operating system and each individual application. See image file, reimaging, ghosting server and clone. into LapLink Tech - the Industry's First Specialized Remote Access Tool for PC Support Professionals Innovative Software Ltd. announced today a new bundling agreement with Traveling Software, Inc. (TSI TSI Total Solar Irradiance (sum solar light in energy per unit of time) TSI Trading Standards Institute (UK) TSI Transportation Safety Institute (US DOT) ), under which TSI will integrate a copy of Innovative Software's industry-leading Ghost workstation cloning software with LapLink(R) Tech 1.0, the latest addition to the leading LapLink remote access product family. The award-winning DOS-based Ghost clones workstations in minutes, installing operating systems such as Windows 95 and Windows NT in a fraction of the usual time. "We are very pleased to be working with an acknowledged industry leader like Traveling Software," said Jim Luty, president of Innovative Software Ltd. "Ghost is an ideal tool to include with their new LapLink Tech package, because it provides PC support professionals with the ability to quickly and easily upgrade and migrate workstations." "We selected Innovative Software's Ghost software due to its established reputation as the industry standard solution for workstation cloning," said Kevin Bohren, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Traveling Software. "The Ghost software is very complementary to LapLink Tech, because it provides functionality that is vital to the support professionals for which this new package is designed." Innovative Software's Ghost is designed to save IS departments, computer manufacturers, system integrators, training and educational centers valuable hours by minimizing the installation times for operating systems such as Win95, WinNT and OS/2. For example, Ghost reduces the time to install a typical 300 megabyte Windows 95 system from an hour--with substantial operator input--to five minutes with no operator input. With Ghost, technicians can create and store a master image of a workstation on a network server or removable media such as 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). , JAZ or ZIP drive, then download the image to one, several or dozens of workstations across a TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , Ethernet, or Token Ring network A LAN access method that uses the token passing technology in a physical ring. Each station in the network passes the token on to the station next to it. Token Ring and FDDI LANs use the token ring access method. See Token Ring, FDDI and token passing. . GHOST is designed to be run under DOS and can be run from a DOS boot diskette The official name for the floppy disk. See floppy disk. diskette - floppy disk . Although DOS-based, it can handle Win95/WinNT long file names File names that exceed the common eight plus three (8.3) character limitation used in DOS and Windows 3.1. Unix, Mac and Windows starting with Windows 95 support long file names. For compatibility with the 8. , NTFS (NT File System) An optional file system for Windows NT, 2000 and XP operating systems. NTFS is the more advanced file system, compared to FAT32. It improves performance and is required in order to implement numerous security and administrative features in the OS. partitions, OS/2 extended attributes and even OS/2 boot manager partitions. The versatile Ghost supports and resizes FAT 12, FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS partitions, and even clones OS/2, Novell, and 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). partitions. By duplicating physical images, Ghost ensures that every copy has a system configuration and drivers that are identical to the original. Building on Traveling Software's flagship product LapLink, which has won more industry awards worldwide than all of its competitors combined, LapLink Tech integrates best-of-breed utilities to provide PC support professionals with remote control, file transfer, voice chat, print re-direction, disk cloning and virus protection. By integrating these top-rated utilities in a single, affordable package, LapLink Tech is the only complete toolkit for remote PC professionals to quickly, efficiently assess and resolve problems with ease-of-use for themselves and the users they support, while maintaining the integrity of their own systems. For more information, contact Innovative Software by phone at 800/817-5119 or 414/964-2200, via E-mail at sales@innovativesoftware.com or visit the company's Internet web site at http://www.innovativesoftware.com About Innovative Software, Ltd. Founded in 1996, Innovative Software, Ltd. markets an assortment of advanced software tools designed to optimize the productivity of PC support professionals. The company's industry-leading workstation cloning software, Ghost, was developed by New Zealand-based Binary Research. With over 3 1/2 million licenses sold to date, Ghost is now used by more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, and by major computer manufacturers, system integrators, universities and government agencies around the world. About Traveling Software Founded in 1982, Traveling Software is a privately held, leading developer of remote access software that provides connectivity to private and public networks and individual desktop PCs. Through its unique market segmentation Market Segmentation A marketing term referring to the aggregating of prospective buyers into groups (segments) that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. strategy to identify and address the needs of emerging classes of remote access users, Traveling Software has become the world's Remote Access Champion, with more awards in the remote access industry worldwide than all of its competitors combined. Available worldwide, Traveling Software's product line includes Point B(TM) Remote Net-Accelerator, Remote DeskLink(R), LapLink(R) for Windows NT, LapLink for Windows 95, LapLink for Windows 3.1, LapLink host, LapLink V for DOS and LapLink Tech. For more information, contact Traveling Software, Inc., 18702 North Creek Parkway, Bothell, WA, 98011, (425) 483-8088, (800) 343-8080. CONTACT: Innovative Software Ltd. 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