Open Text Announces The Affinity Solution Provider Program.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1997-- Third Party Developers Acknowledge The Future of Corporate Intranets Open Text Corporation (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 :OTEXF) today announced the Affinity Solution Provider program, a program aimed at helping third party software developers to expand their businesses more quickly around one of the fastest growing segments in the computing industry--corporate intranets. The Affinity Solution Provider program was designed to provide developers and system integrators worldwide with a comprehensive business-development program including consultation; software customization, integration, training and certification services; access to an interactive, secure Web site; staff support and marketing programs for Livelink Intranet. "There is tremendous demand for corporate intranet solutions that help global 2000 companies automate their business process across the entire enterprise," said Don Pasquale Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer and Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian libretto after Angelo Anelli's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio (1810). , Director, Open Text Affinity Program. "The key to our global strategy is working closely with Affinity Partners who share our commitment to offering superior, high performance intranet solutions." "Open Text's investment in its Affinity Solution Provider program has translated into real benefits for Morningstar Systems," said Michael Kumpf of Morningstar Systems, Inc., an Open Text Affinity Solution Provider Partner. "The Open Text Affinity program has given our company the ability to provide software solutions that work with Livelink Intranet, the leading software for corporate intranets. As a result, our customers have realized tremendous business benefits and system implementation times that are a fraction of what they would otherwise be." Morningstar Systems, Inc. provides Web application development and strategic consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" to clients through 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. , focusing on knowledge management, document management, workflow and collaborative applications. Open Text Affinity Solution Providers are independent organizations working in conjunction with Open Text Corporation, and include a wide range of companies such as system integrators, software developers and consultants. These organizations add value to their customers by offering a full range of services, such as vertical and horizontal solutions, line-of-business applications, and system integration. Further details on the Affinity Solution Provider program is available at http://www.opentext.com/affinity . About Livelink Livelink Intranet is a highly-scaleable collaborative knowledge management application for intranets. Livelink's richly-featured enterprise document management, workflow, project collaboration and search engines are tightly integrated into an off-the-shelf application that is easily customized and extended to fill a broad range of information and knowledge management needs in the enterprise. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure very rapid deployment, requiring just a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. on users' desktops to access its full functionality. Livelink runs on 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. and the leading 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). platforms and supports the most popular relational database management systems See DBMS for a shorter list of “typical”, representative database management systems. Open-source software
About Open Text Corporation Open Text Corporation's software and services enable Global 2000 companies to "Put the Web to Work"(TM) by leveraging the global reach and openness of intranets. Open Text's dramatic growth has been fueled by the rapid market acceptance of its innovative collaborative knowledge management system, Livelink. The company has been named the growth leader by the Delphi Group and the market share leader by International Data Corporation. Full details about the company, its products and services, partners and customers can be found at http://www.opentext.com . -0- This news release may contain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements, specifically those concerning future performance, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus Final Prospectus A legal document stating the price of a newly issued security, the delivery date, and other facts that are important for investors. Notes: The final prospectus must be given to every investor who purchases a new issue of registered securities. for the company's initial public offering of common stock in January 1996, and Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended June 30, 1996. Note to Editors: Open Text, the Open Text logo, Livelink, Livelink Intranet, Livelink Intranet Suite 7 and "Putting the Web to Work" are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. All others are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Open Text Corporation Mia Pearson, 519/888-7111 mpearson@opentext.com |
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