Smartlogik partners with Horizon Open Systems, a Sun Microsystems preferred UK service provider partner.Business/Technology Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001 Smartlogik (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 :BSTN)-- - Joint business development strategy to drive revenues for Smartlogik, Horizon Open Systems and Sun Microsystems - Horizon and Sun join growing list of Smartlogik partners, including Intel, IBM and Norcontrol - Horizon partners already include Cisco, Baltimore Technologies, Sun, Oracle, Riversoft & Veritas Smartlogik (www.smartlogik.com), a leading provider of information discovery solutions and the major subsidiary of Bright Station PLC (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : BSN BSN abbr. Bachelor of Science in Nursing , NASDAQ: BSTN), today announced a partnership with Horizon Open Systems, a division of The Horizon Group (LSE: HOR), a Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) preferred partner and leading provider of IP infrastructure services for Service Providers (SPs) and their corporate customers. Horizon Open Systems has signed Smartlogik(TM) to its Sun Application Provider Resource Centre (APRC APRC Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (Gambia) APRC Arab Petroleum Research Center APRC Annual Percentage Rate of Charge APRC Automotive Public Relations Council APRC Association of Professional Recruitment Consultants ) Programme, continuing its drive to promote Internet-enabled technology from leading edge software developers on the Sun platform. Horizon will promote Smartlogik's search and categorization solutions for intranet and Internet applications to the Sun IP infrastructure user base, opening channels to market and increasing sales opportunities. Horizon and Sun join a growing list of Smartlogik partners, which includes Intel, 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) and Norcontrol. Horizon's Sun APRC Programme, through which Horizon aims to double its business by the end of 2003, combines the SP infrastructure hardware and expertise of Horizon and Sun with Internet-enabled technology from over 50 leading applications developers. Stephen Hill, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Smartlogik, said: "This is an important endorsement of the strength of our technology and our ability to partner with the industry's leading players. We are looking forward to developing a close relationship with both Horizon and Sun. Membership of the APRC Program will provide us with access to a major new client base, and the Smartlogik software sales will create increased hardware-based revenue for Horizon and Sun - benefiting all involved." Robert Bell, Sun APRC Programme Manager, Horizon, added: "Smartlogik is an industry leader in the provision of search and categorization solutions. We selected Smartlogik as an APRC member because of its fit to Horizon's offering and its potential for business enhancement. The combination of Smartlogik's applications with Horizon's business development expertise, as well as access to the Sun user base, will create new sales opportunities and enable all the companies involved to grab market share early in a fast- developing sector." Smartlogik, a subsidiary of Bright Station plc (www.brightstation.com), is a leading supplier of search and categorization solutions enabling unstructured information to be presented with a high degree of precision and relevance. Smartlogik's muscattechnology(TM) suite of structuring, concept searching and alerting products are based on latest generation technologies that uniquely combine to create powerful information delivery systems for use both within the organization and in the provision of a better service to customers - enabling users to find the information that they need rapidly and reliably. Unlike many competitive offerings, Smartlogik solutions are tailored to the unique requirements of each customer thus providing more accurate and more precise results. Smartlogik operates a multi-channel strategy consisting of a direct sales force, a Value Added Reseller See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). program and a consultancy arm. Smartlogik's exceptional searching and indexing technologies originated from two different sources: The search technology, muscatdiscovery(TM), stemmed from Dr Martin Porter's work with a special research team at Cambridge University. This team investigated new information retrieval paradigms and included fellow information retrieval experts Professor Keith Van Rijsbergen and Professor Stephen Robertson. The techniques developed by the team moved beyond traditional keyword matching towards a pure probabilistic (probability) probabilistic - Relating to, or governed by, probability. The behaviour of a probabilistic system cannot be predicted exactly but the probability of certain behaviours is known. Such systems may be simulated using pseudorandom numbers. information retrieval model based on contextual analysis of language. The indexing technology, muscatstructure(TM), originated from the need to search across multiple sources of information. MAID, an information processing pioneer, developed the tool for categorising terabytes of information. This technology is currently employed by Thompson Corporation to service the information needs of 20,000+ organisations. Smartlogik customers include Ananova, the Bank of England Bank of England, central bank and note-issuing institution of Great Britain. Popularly known as the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, its main office stands on the street of that name in London. , the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. , the British Library, the Daily Telegraph, Dialog, the Department of Trade and Industry The Department of Trade and Industry was a United Kingdom government department which was disbanded with the announcement of the creation of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on 28 June 2007[1]. (DTI Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) A refinement of magnetic resonance imaging that allows the doctor to measure the flow of water and track the pathways of white matter in the brain. ), Fortune City, Hansard, the Lafferty Group. Legal and General, Yellow Pages, the Danish Foreign Ministry, and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre The United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre or UNEP-WCMC is an executive agency of the United Nations Environment Programme, based in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. . About Horizon Open Systems UK Horizon is a leading provider of IP infrastructure services for Service Providers (SPs) and their customers and is the Preferred Partner to both Sun Microsystems and Oracle in the SP arena. Horizon partners with key enterprise technology developers such as BMC Software, Cisco, Inktomi, iPlanet, Riversoft and VERITAS to provide the broadest range of tools and value-added developments to drive the delivery of fast, secure, 24x7 Internet infrastructure services. The company is part of Horizon Technology Group, a leading European Internet Services organisation that is quoted on both the London and Dublin stock markets. The six-month revenues for The Horizon Group up to 31st December 2000 were <128>183.3 million. More information on The Horizon Group is available at: www.horizon.ie. This news announcement may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which are subject to the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " created by those sections. The forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate,"anticipate," "inevitable," "believe" or "continue" or variations thereon, and include, among others, the launch dates of the Company's products noted above. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, among others, those set forth under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Report on Form 20-F or generally in the Company's Reports on Form 6-K. The Company disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of subsequent events. |
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