KL Group Forms European Subsidiary; KL Group Europe B.V. to Provide Sales and Support from Amsterdam Office.TORONTO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1996--KL Group Inc., a leading provider of Motif and Java GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. components, today announced the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. called KL Group Europe B.V. The focus of the unit is to offer sales and post-sales technical support to KL Group's rapidly expanding European customer base. Peter Thomson will be the managing director of the subsidiary, which commences operations from its Amsterdam office on Nov. 1, 1996. "Due to language and time zone issues, we have created a new unit to better address the needs of our growing base of European customers. KL Group Europe B.V. will offer multi-lingual sales and technical support from a central location, which will benefit all European developers, whether they are using 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). , Windows or Java," said Greg Kiessling, president of KL Group. "I am thrilled to be heading up the European operation," said Peter Thomson, managing director of KL Group Europe B.V. "Over the past four years, I've been working with selected European resellers to deliver KL Group's product to Europe. Now we'll be able to support our existing European resellers and direct customers more effectively than ever." KL Group has been supplying software components to tens of thousands of developers for use in mission-critical UNIX applications since 1989. The company recently introduced several new products, including JClass LiveTable and Olectra Chart, to expand into the Java and Windows development markets. KL Group has maintained growing profitability for more than 20 consecutive quarters and continues to reinvest re·in·vest tr.v. re·in·vest·ed, re·in·vest·ing, re·in·vests To invest (capital or earnings) again, especially to invest (income from securities or funds) in additional shares. heavily in new GUI technology. KL GROUP PRODUCTS -- Olectra Chart: A 2D and 3D OLE/ActiveX Control that lets Windows developer add charts and graphs to applications. -- JClass LiveTable Applet: Java applet A Java program that is downloaded from the server and run from the browser. The Java Virtual Machine built into the browser is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java application. adds tables with scrolling, built-in search, and sort capabilities to Web pages. -- JClass LiveTable Pro: Enables Java developers to build large, sophisticated tables and forms, with hundreds of features such as multi-font, multi-color cells, custom user-interactions, and on-demand cell data. -- JClass BWT BWT Burrows Wheeler Transform (compression technology) BWT Boundary Waters Treaty (United States and Canada) BWT Basic Warrior Training BWT Bronchial Wall Thickness BWT Big White Truck : A powerful library of essential GUI components for Java developers that includes an Outliner An outliner is a special text editor that allows text to be structured as an outline. Outliners are typically used for computer programming, collecting or organizing ideas, Getting Things Done, or project management. (hierarchical tree control), Image Button, Tab Manager, Multicolumn List, Header, Checkbox, Scrollbar, and more. -- XRT/gear: A collection of add-on widgets and utilities for Motif that includes a Tab Manager, Widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. Tips pop-up spot help, a Toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the , and a wide variety of other features not available in the standard Motif toolkit. -- XRT/graph: The most complete and powerful two-dimensional graph widget available for X application developers. -- XRT/3d: Sophisticated three-dimensional surface, bar and contour graph widget for X application developers. -- XRT/field: Enables Motif developers to build data-entry forms with field-level validation many times faster than with standard Motif widgets. -- XRT/table: Allows developers to easily display and manipulate tabular data in Motif applications. KL GROUP EUROPE B.V. The KL Group Europe B.V. office is located at Willemsparkweg 52-1, 1071 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Customers may contact the office by telephone +31 (0) 20 679 95 03 or by fax at +31 (0) 20 675 78 44. KL GROUP KL Group develops and markets the XRT XRT A symbol used specifically upon the consolidated tape to indicate a security trading ex-rights. Notes: Typically, a stock will depreciate in price immediately after rights offering expires. family of GUI components for Motif, Olectra components for Windows, and JClass components for Java. Founded in 1989, KL Group has been recognized as one of the Top 100 fastest growing Canadian companies This is a list of companies from Canada.
Directory: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Current Companies by PROFIT magazine. KL Group's products are sold from their corporate offices in Toronto, and internationally through a world-wide channel of qualified resellers. For more information on KL Group's products, access the World Wide Web at http://www.klg.com. -0- Note to Editors: XRT, JClass and Olectra are trademarks of KL Group Inc. All other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Nadel Phelan Paula Phelan, 408/439-5570 ext. 222 paula@nadelphelan.com |
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