PTG Software and Acronis Announce Broad Distribution Agreement; Agreement Expands Acronis System Software into Top Retail Distribution Channel.Business Editors & High Tech Writers INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2002 PTG PTG Polymer Technology Group PTG Play The Game (online gaming) PTG Pietersburg, South Africa (Airport Code) PTG Pearson Technology Group (Canada) Software, a division of Pearson Technology Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PSO PSO - Oracle Parallel Server ), announces an exclusive North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. distribution agreement with Acronis, the technological leader in system software development. PTG Software will facilitate the distribution of the Acronis line of PC system tools and utility products to its major retail customers. "We are truly confident that this relationship between PTG and Acronis will greatly benefit our two companies," said Paul Reese Paul Reese (1917 – November 4, 2004), was a United States Marine Corps colonel and then a high level administrator with the Sacramento City School District, during which time he became a local running legend as a top age group competitor and founding race director of the , title manager, Technical Products, PTG Software. "The addition of Acronis is a key strategic move to increase our distribution offerings across key segments of the software market." Under the terms of the agreement, PTG will provide Acronis distribution into all leading retail channels and outlets. PTG and Acronis will also work together to expand Acronis' PC system tools and utility product line. "We are pleased to announce this distribution agreement with PTG Software," said Maxim Tsypliaev, president of Acronis. "A true industry leader with a large retailer customer base, PTG Software will help Acronis become the recognized leader in system software in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . In April, PTG will deliver two award-winning Acronis titles to its retail customers - Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe and Acronis MigrateEasy Deluxe. Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe (www.acronis.com/products/oss50/) is a popular multi-operating system hard disk drive partitioner and boot manager A utility that allows multiple operating systems to be booted from the same computer. IBM's Boot Manager and VCOM's System Commander are examples. See dual boot and boot loader. . The versatile software allows PC users to run multiple operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. environments on a single PC, including Windows(R), Linux(R), and Sun Solaris(R) among others. It also allows PC users to edit and resize Verb 1. resize - change the size of; make the size more appropriate size - make to a size; bring to a suitable size rescale - establish on a new scale 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. , NTFS5, FAT16, FAT32, Ext2Fs, Ext3Fs and ReiserFS files systems - functionality found exclusively in Acronis OS Selector 5.0. Acronis MigrateEasy Deluxe (www.acronis.com/en/products/me/) is a hard disk drive upgrading program that allows PC users to effortlessly migrate existing system data to a new hard drive in minutes, while retaining their operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and all data. Acronis MigrateEasy Deluxe supports all PC operating systems. PTG Software also plans to distribute additional Acronis titles in the coming months, including Acronis TrueImage Deluxe, a leading hard disk drive imaging solution, Acronis PrivacyExpert, a comprehensive Internet, hard drive and system data removal solution, and Acronis PowerUtilities, a `greatest hits' compilation of award-winning Acronis system utilities. Other Acronis titles will be announced soon. To receive the latest news on Acronis products, please visit www.acronis.com and sign up for the product announcement newsletter. About Acronis With offices in the Unites States, Europe and Asia, Acronis offers comprehensive software system solutions to corporate and home PC users worldwide. Acronis is the technological leader in partitioning, boot management, disk editing, data destruction, and other core system tool areas. Acronis develops and markets some of the most popular system software titles available today, including Acronis OS Selector Deluxe 5.0, Acronis MigrateEasy Deluxe, Acronis DiskEditor Deluxe, Acronis TrueImage Deluxe, and Acronis ProofEraser Deluxe. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com or contact Brian McManus at brian.mcmanus@acronis.com. About PTG Software PTG Software is a world leader in delivering quality, innovative Linux, Audio, Programming, Internet Security, Reference and Gaming software to our consumers. Distributing leading brands like MUSICMATCH, Encyclopaedia Britannica and Linux-Mandrake we bring innovative software to market all over the world. PTG Software acquires, creates, develops, and packages tools and resources to fulfill market needs through the broadest range of distribution vehicles, including brick-and-mortar retail, on-line retail, and direct sales. PTG Software is an imprint of Pearson Technology Group (PTG), the world's largest provider of consumer and professional computer, information technology, engineering and reference content. Pearson Technology Group is an operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of Pearson Education, the world's leading education and professional publisher. Copyright information: Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Corp. Linux is a registered of Linux Torvalds. Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. |
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