Wyse Technology Spins-Off Management Software Company; Rapport Technologies Inc. to Address Market Need for Embedded Device Management.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) Wyse(R) Technology, the worldwide leader in secure, managed thin clients, today announced it is spinning off the management software portion of its business and creating an independent company, Rapport Technologies Inc. Wyse formed Rapport Technologies Inc. to develop an industry standard for embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. device management software, and to expand beyond enterprise thin clients to manage a wide variety of devices, such as PDAs, Pocket PCs and personal computers. Rapport Technologies Inc. will operate as an independent U.S.-based company, with Wyse Technology serving as Rapport Technologies' initial channel of distribution for Rapport(TM) Management Software to the end customer. Wyse will continue to market, sell and support the Wyse Rapport(TM) branded management software with its own VAR channel and direct customers. Max Toy, formerly vice president of business initiatives at Wyse Technology, has been appointed president of Rapport Technologies Inc. The company will be located in North Dallas North Dallas is an expansive area of numerous communities and neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas, (USA). It spans portions of three counties: Collin, Dallas, and Denton, and has strong social ties to two enclaves of Dallas (University Park and Highland Park) and a near-enclave , TX, near Wyse Technology's Carrolton, TX-based development facility. It has always been Wyse's goal to extend Rapport management software beyond the traditional enterprise thin-client market. There are millions of thin clients installed today, which represents only a small fraction of the wide variety of devices that people use to communicate, including handheld PDAs, personal computers, cell phones, etc. A major challenge to maximizing the usefulness of these devices and keeping the cost of using them to a minimum is that there is no industry standard for embedded device management. Wyse Rapport is already the industry standard in the thin-client market, with more than 400,000 devices from multiple vendors currently supported, and Rapport Technologies Inc. will build upon Wyse's previous development efforts to make Rapport the standard in other embedded device markets. "Wyse Technology is the domain expert in the thin-client market, and to grow the space, we will cultivate the thin-client ecosystem -- from the server, through the network, to the desktop," said John Stringer string·er n. 1. One that strings: a stringer of beads. 2. Architecture a. A long heavy horizontal timber used as a support or connector. b. A stringboard. , president and 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. of Wyse Technology Inc. "The spin-off The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. of Rapport Technologies Inc. is a strategic move that addresses the significant cultural differences that are inherent to application software companies. This includes the need to have a standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. identity and purpose, the ability to look at markets in a non-traditional manner, and a development environment that lets creativity flourish." ABOUT WYSE TECHNOLOGY Wyse Technology is the worldwide leader in thin clients. The Wyse Winterm line of business desktops provides a secure, manageable, affordable, and reliable alternative to personal computers, maximizing IT budgets and minimizing the risk of unauthorized access to critical information. Through its channel of Authorized Winterm Partners and well-known original equipment manufacturers' (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) labels worldwide, Wyse has helped CIOs worldwide reduce the costs and complexity of modern IT infrastructures by eliminating the reliance on personal computers as the only desktop device for business. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. and Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, with offices worldwide. For more information, visit the Wyse Website at http://www.wyse.com or call 1-800-GET-WYSE. Wyse(R) and WY-(R) are registered trademarks, and Winterm(TM) is a trademark of Wyse Technology Inc. Other product names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : The appropriate full company name is "Wyse Technology Inc." rather than "Wyse Technologies." |
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