NCD Introduces Aggressive Trade-Up Program; From NTRIGUE to WinCenter Multi-user Windows NT.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 1998--Network Computing Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NCDI NCDI Northern Centre for Digital Imaging (West Yorkshire, UK) ) announced today its NTRIGUE Trade-Up Program to ease the migration of Insignia's NTRIGUE customers to NCD's WinCenter product. On January 12th, Insignia sold its NTRIGUE Multi-user Windows NT technology to Citrix Systems and discontinued sales of the product. Citrix has partnered with NCD NCD - Network Computing Devices to put together an easy way to move NTRIGUE customers to NCD's WinCenter. The Trade-Up Program provides customers with installations of NTRIGUE, a low cost migration path to WinCenter 3.1, the leading product for delivering Windows NT applications to 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). desktops. WinCenter 3.1 is based upon Citrix Systems' WinFrame 1.7, to which it adds support for the UNIX environment with X.11 drivers, NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System and NIS Niš or Nish (both: nēsh), city (1991 pop. 175,391), SE Serbia, on the Nišava River. An important railway and industrial center, it has industries that manufacture textiles, electronics, spirits, and locomotives. +. In addition, WinCenter 3.1's Multi-user Application Manager eases the installation and management of applications being deployed in a multi-user environment. "Our intent with this program is to painlessly migrate the NTRIGUE installed base to WinCenter 3.1," said Mike Kruse, WinCenter product manager for NCD. "From there we can provide them with additional licenses, 7x24hr technical support and an annual update program guaranteeing their path to NT 4.0 support." "We are very excited about this program," commented Cecil Dye, senior VP of Sales for NCD. "We have already spoken to several NTRIGUE resellers who are planning to use this program to migrate their whole installed base to WinCenter." Prices for the NTRIGUE Trade-Up Program start at less than $500 to migrate a 5 user server to WinCenter. Full details of the program are available at http://www.ncd.com/promos/tradeup.html or from NCD's sales team at 1 800-800-9599. Founded in 1988, Network Computing Devices (company) Network Computing Devices - (NCD) Producer of X terminals, PC-Xware and Z-Mail. http://ncd.com/. , Inc. provides thin client hardware and software that delivers simultaneous, high-performance, easy-to-manage access to any application from thin client, UNIX and PC desktops. NCD's products include the Explora family of thin clients, WinCenter multi-user Windows NT server software and PC-Xware software that delivers PC access to UNIX and multi-user Windows NT. Over 500,000 NCD thin clients are installed with over 2 billion hours of operation. NCD's technology is incorporated into products sold by companies such as 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) , Sun and Novell. The company can be reached on the Internet at www.ncd.com . -0- Note to Editors: Network Computing Devices and PC-Xware are registered trademarks of Network Computing Devices, Inc. Universal Network Computer, Explora, HMX, WinCenter and Marathon are trademarks of Network Computing Devices, Inc. Other trademarks are the acknowledged property of their respective holders. CONTACT: NCD Arlene Dickson, 650/903-7444 arlene@ncd.com or Phase Two Strategies Michelle Stevens, 415/772-8437 Michelle_stevens@p2pr.com |
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