Maintech partners with Control Data Systems to offer Sun Microsystems software support.WALLINGTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1995--Maintech, a leading provider of service solutions for advanced systems, has entered into an agreement with Control Data Systems, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., a SunSoft Authorized Service Provider An Authorized Service Provider (ASP) is a third party person that has been cleared to work on a product that is still under warranty by another company without voiding the warranty. (ASP). The agreement enables Maintech customers to benefit from a combined offering which couples Control Data support of SunSoft software with Maintech desktop hardware maintenance services. Maintech forged the agreement in response to growing customer requests for SunSoft software support. "We have already signed several clients for SunSoft software support, making our agreement with CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation an instant success," said Carole Greene, Maintech's vice president of marketing and sales. "Maintech is committed to offering our clients a total Sun service solution and an alternative to manufacturer support." Maintech clients opting for SunSoft software support will have a direct agreement with and access to Control Data's support operations. As a SunSoft ASP installation and configuration assistance, problem diagnostics and resolution, technical support, licensed software upgrades and software patches. Control Data Systems Inc. helps clients in business and government integrate the complex networks and applications required to compete in today's electronic marketplace. A global systems integrator, the company provides technology consulting, project implementation and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality for mission-critical applications in business and government. Maintech provides service solutions for a wide variety 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 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. platforms including the following product lines: Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, 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) RS/6000, DEC, Hewlett-Packard 9000 and Axil ax·il n. The upper angle between a lateral organ, such as a leafstalk, and the stem that bears it. [Latin axilla, armpit. . Maintech is a division of Volt Delta Resources, whose parent company is Volt Information Sciences Inc. Volt Information Sciences Inc. is a diversified technical services, human resources, computer systems and electronic manufacturing company. For additional information telephone Maintech at: 800/426-TECH; or contact Control Data at 800/497-4786. CONTACT: John Esposito, 201/614-1700, ext. 252 |
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