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Capio One runs any Windows® application and is available with choice of models featuring Citrix® ICA, Microsoft® RDP, and Neoware TeemTalk® host access software for mainframe, midrange, Linux, and UNIX systems. Eon e100 offers single hardware platform that can support Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Linux. Flat panel and tablet versions are available. Units are immune from viruses and are compatible with IBM Tivoli, Microsoft Systems Management Server, and Altiris Deployment Solution.
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Wouldn't it be Great if Business PCs Cost $199 and were Immune from Viruses? New Neoware Thin Clients Dramatically Alter the PC Buying Decision
With a sub-$200 entry price, the highest performance, and the industry's first open management software, new Neoware thin client appliances redefine desktop computing
King of Prussia, PA, April 5, 2004 -- Neoware Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWRE), the leading supplier of award-winning software, services and appliances for thin client computing, today dramatically altered the PC buying decision with the introduction of an all-new lineup of Capio and Eon thin client appliances. With a starting price of $199, immunity from standard PC viruses, models that offer the highest performance available, and support for open, industry standard management, the new Neoware thin client appliances include models that are:
*One fourth the price of today's typical business personal computer, changing the economic buying decision for PC users;
*As powerful as today's most advanced personal computers, eliminating the performance distinctions between thin client appliances and PCs; and
*The first thin client appliances that can be managed by industry standard management software, including IBM Tivoli, Microsoft SMS, and Altiris Deployment Solution, giving thin client customers the benefits of open standards, including choice, flexibility and investment protection.
With these new product introductions, Neoware believes it will gain significant market share in the PC industry by eliminating the perceived barriers of server-based computing by: significantly increasing the cost delta between thin client appliances and personal computers; increasing the performance of thin client appliances to the level of today's personal computers; and allowing customers to choose from industry-standard management tools that can manage the largest, distributed networks of thin client appliances, personal computers, servers, and other devices.
"Neoware's new Eon and Capio thin client appliances fundamentally change the buying decision for today's personal computer users," commented Michael Kantrowitz, Neoware's Chairman and CEO. "Our new lineup is designed to appeal to users that have not considered thin clients in the past because they considered them too costly, too slow or too proprietary. With the new Neoware products that we are introducing today, Neoware has eliminated the final barriers to thin client adoption by enterprises around the globe."
"CIOs need to consider the security, management, reliability, and cost savings of thin clients," commented Bob O'Donnell, Analyst at the market research firm, IDC. "IDC believes that the thin client segment of the PC industry is poised for significant growth in coming years, particularly as these products' price points attract the attention of IT managers and purchase decision makers."
In an industry first, Neoware announced today that its thin client appliances feature Open Management and are now compatible with three of the industry's top network management platforms: IBM Tivoli, Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) and Altiris Deployment Solution, as well as Neoware's own ezRemote Manager. By extending its management software to include compatibility with IBM Tivoli, Microsoft SMS and Altiris, Neoware has solved a primary technical roadblock facing all other thin client appliances - the need to use proprietary management technologies that lock customers into a single vendor's software, eliminating choice, flexibility, and compatibility. By introducing Open Management, Neoware believes that it has eliminated the most significant issue inhibiting thin client appliance adoption by allowing customers to select an enterprise-class management tool today - or at any time in the future - that can manage hundreds of thousands of thin client appliances, personal computers, laptops, servers, and other devices deployed throughout the enterprise.
The new Neoware thin client appliances introduced today include Capio One, which delivers the ability to run any Windows® application from a server for only $199, less than one fourth the price of the typical business PC and with virtually none of the security, management, reliability, and ongoing support costs that plague PCs and add significantly to PC total cost of ownership.
Capio One, the entry model in Neoware's fast, easy, and affordable family of thin client appliances, is available in two flavors, with a choice of models featuring Citrix® ICA, Microsoft® RDP, and Neoware TeemTalk® host access software for mainframe, midrange, Linux and UNIX systems, with prices beginning at $199.
Simultaneously, Neoware is launching the Eon e100, e300 and e500, significant new additions to Neoware's powerful, flexible and customizable Eon family of thin client appliances.
Eon e100 offers the broadest choice of capabilities in any thin client appliance, with a single hardware platform that can support Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Linux, allowing customers to upgrade from one configuration to another without changing hardware. When paired with a server, Eon e100 offers the performance of today's most powerful personal computers and includes the highest video performance, resolution and color depth available in a thin client appliance today.
Eon e300 offers the combination of a powerful thin client appliance packaged in a sleek, stylish flat panel monitor, offering customers a perfect solution for environments where space is at a premium.
Eon e500 offers the security, management, reliability, and affordability of thin client appliances in a Tablet PC form factor, enabling customers to gain the benefits of thin client computing on-the-go via wireless networks.
Neoware software and thin client appliances enable enterprises to run off-the-shelf Windows®, UNIX, Linux, mainframe or Internet applications on solid-state appliances that have no hard drive, floppy, CD, fan, or other moving parts. Applications run on servers, and display on thin client appliances across a network with all the performance of a traditional personal computer, but with significantly enhanced security, reliability, and manageability, and at lower cost. Neoware's broad family of thin client appliances and software includes the Capio and Eon families of thin client appliances that run Microsoft Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Linux, Neoware ezRemote Manager software to manage thin clients and PCs, Neoware ThinPC software to convert personal computers into thin client appliances, and Neoware TeemTalk® host access software to bridge legacy applications with Windows and the web.
Neoware's new Eon and Capio products introduced today are available immediately from Neoware's broad network of business partners, including IBM (NYSE: IBM) and select resellers around the globe. Neoware's Open Management software is also available now, for Neoware's new thin client appliances, as well as for existing Neoware customers. For more information, visit Neoware at www.neoware.com or IBM at http://pc.ibm.com/us/neoware.
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® 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's products are available worldwide from IBM, and from select, knowledgeable resellers. 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.
