KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Sept. 18, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Neoware Systems (Nasdaq:NWRE), the leading supplier of software, services, and solutions for the Appliance Computing market, today announced that Windows & .NET Magazine has selected Neoware as the winner in the Best Thin Client category of the Windows & .NET Magazine Readers' Choice Awards.
Windows & .NET Magazine readers were asked to vote on their product preferences in 16 broad technology categories, including Thin Client Hardware, where Neoware's products were listed with thin client appliances from other providers. Based on product preferences in their own environments more than 2,300 readers voted on nearly 90 technology products, and Neoware's ThinSTAR came out on top for Best Thin Client.
"We know that peer recommendations are important to our readership," said Dave Bernard, custom media editorial director, Windows & .NET Magazine. "The first annual Windows & .NET Magazine Readers' Choice Awards were developed as a way for readers to choose and recommend the best technology products in the industry. Receiving this award is an industry seal of approval."
"Neoware is pleased to be acknowledged with this award," stated Howie Hunger, Neoware's Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development. "Having been selected by the readers of Windows & .NET Magazine is especially gratifying, considering they are using our appliances for real-world applications. Receiving this award from the readers of Windows & .NET Magazine emphasizes how our continuing focus on the software that powers our thin clients is providing the best possible solutions to our customers."
About Neoware
Neoware provides software, services, and solutions to enable Appliance Computing, an Internet-based computing architecture targeted at business customers that is designed to be simpler and easier than traditional PC-based computing. Neoware's software and management tools power and manage a new generation of smart computing appliances that utilize the benefits of open, industry-standard technologies to create new alternatives to personal computers used in business and a wide variety of proprietary business devices.
Neoware's products are designed to run local applications for specific vertical markets, plus allow access across a network to multi-user Windows servers, Linux servers, mainframes, minicomputers, and the Internet. Computing appliances that run and are managed by Neoware's software offer the cost benefits of industry-standard hardware and software, easier installation, and have lower up-front and administrative costs than proprietary or PC-based alternatives.
More information about Neoware can be found on the Web at www.neoware.com or via email at invest@neoware.com. Neoware is based in King of Prussia, PA.
About Penton Media
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding Neoware's broad product offering, Neoware's ability to ensure customers investment protection and the cost benefits and other advantages of the Company's products. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted in any such forward-looking statements include Neoware's timely development and delivery and customers' acceptance of Neoware's appliance computing products, pricing pressures, rapid technological changes in the industry, growth of the appliance computing market, increased competition, Neoware's ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, adverse changes in general economic conditions, risks associated with foreign operations in the U. S. and internationally and political and economic uncertainties associated with current world events. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in Neoware's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, its report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2001.
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