KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Aug. 23, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Neoware Systems (Nasdaq:NWRE), the leading supplier of award-winning software, services, and appliances for thin client computing, today announced that international jewelry designer Pierre Lang has converted all of the PCs on its global computer network to centrally-managed thin client appliances using Neoware's ThinPC software. Company officials made the decision, which benefits 1000's of employees and sales agents around Europe, in order to attain greater management control over their IT network and to eliminate PC obsolescence, putting an end to the spiraling maintenance and upgrade costs of the organization's global PC based infrastructure.
"With Neoware's ThinPC software, we can receive all the benefits of a server-based computing environment with thin clients on the desktop, without replacing our personal computers, improving security and reliability," says Antonia Ebner, IT Manager of Pierre Lang. "All of our applications are now run from central servers, which increases management control and lowers the cost of our company's IT network in several ways. Applications are now stored, delivered, and managed centrally, and with Neoware ThinPC, we spend very little time managing individual desktops. ThinPC lets us install and update each desktop with the latest software centrally from the server. And since our applications are now server-based, we never again have to upgrade the desktop PCs."
For over 40 years, the Austrian-based company Pierre Lang has prided itself on producing the highest quality jewelry with unique, innovative designs, supported by excellent customer care and superb after-the-sale service. Renowned around the globe for the depth of its plating, all Pierre Lang designer jewelry is Gold or Rhodium plated, with 80% of production performed by hand. 2002 saw the launch of a solid sterling silver collection. Pierre Lang has distribution outlets and production workshops in eight countries. The company supports 5,500 consultants who deal with daily sales opportunities, and produces about 5 million pieces of jewelry annually.
Neoware's ThinPC software is the ideal solution for Pierre Lang, a company seeking the benefits of thin client appliances but needing to maintain their significant investment in PCs. Transforming Pierre Lang's global fleet of PCs into robust thin client appliances provided them with access to server-based applications with minimal desktop hardware requirements and no additional costs for memory or hard disk space -- extending the company's original capital investment for the long term.
In addition, Neoware's ezRemote Manager software is giving Pierre Lang's IT administrators robust, enterprise-class centralized remote management of virtually all their desktops, whether they are PCs running Neoware's ThinPC software, or thin client appliances. In the future, Pierre Lang's IT department intends to purchase Neoware's thin client appliances, and not PCs, when it needs to add a desktop workstation to its network.
"Neoware's ThinPC is an excellent solution for virtually any organization that wants to increase manageability and eliminate PC obsolescence, while preserving existing capital investments in desktop PCs," says Michael Kantrowitz, Chairman and CEO of Neoware. "In fact, Neoware ThinPC enables an easy migration to thin client computing, at one fourth the price of competitor's thin clients, making it a great way for organizations to cost-effectively and rapidly experience the benefits of thin client appliance computing."
About Neoware
Neoware's software, services, and thin client appliances make computing more secure, manageable, reliable and affordable by enabling global enterprises to fully leverage server-based computing. By incorporating open, standards-based technologies and eliminating the obsolescence that is built into standard PC architectures, Neoware provides enterprises with increased flexibility and choice, as well as lower up-front and total costs.
Neoware's software products enable enterprises to gain control of their desktops, and to integrate mainframe, midrange, UNIX and Linux applications with Windows(r) and the web. Neoware's thin client appliances enable enterprises to run applications on servers, and display them across wired or wireless networks on secure, managed, reliable appliances that cost as little as one fourth the price of today's typical business PC. Neoware services enable corporations to benefit from server-based computing with training and end-to-end support.
Neoware's products are available worldwide from IBM, as well as from select, knowledgeable resellers. More information about Neoware can be found on the Web at http://www.neoware.com or via email at invest@neoware.com. Neoware is based in King of Prussia, PA.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding: our expectation of future sales to Pierre Lang. 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 statement include continued acceptance of our thin client products by Pierre Lang, pricing pressures, rapid technological changes in the industry, growth of the Appliance Computing market, increased competition, our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, adverse changes in general economic conditions 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, 2003 and Forms 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2003, December 31, 2003 and March 31, 2004. Neoware is a trademark of Neoware Systems, Inc. All other names products and services are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.