Hyderabad:
Neoware Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWRE), supplier of enterprise
software, thin client appliances and related services
and India's Parrus IT Solutions have entered into an alliance.
The alliance strengthens Neoware's position as a global
leader providing customers with more open, secure, reliable,
affordable, and manageable computing solutions and expands
its distribution, customer service, and software development
capabilities to serve Indian customers.
Parrus
IT Solutions will distribute and support Neoware's full-line
of server-based computing products, including its thin
clients, comprehensive enabling technologies, and customized
solutions.
The
Indian market for thin client solutions is expected to
grow by 17.3 per cent this year, and 30.8 per cent by
2007, according to market research firm IDC. Additionally,
Parrus will complement Neoware's global engineering resources
in the United States, and throughout Europe.
Based
in Bangalore, Parrus IT Solutions specialises in best-of-breed
IT solutions, with a focus on thin clients and server-centric
computing, software development and IT services, and software
configuration management. The company's infrastructure
spans all of India, with regional offices in Noida, Mumbai,
Hyderabad and Chennai.
"Neoware
is now the only dedicated company catering to thin clients
that provides significant services, customisation, and
support throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia,"
stated Michael Kantrowitz, Neoware's chairman and CEO.
"Our alliance with Parrus will help enterprises in
that market benefit from Neoware's solutions, customized
and localized content, and the industry's largest and
most skilled engineering team."
"We're
pleased to align with the world leader in innovative server-based
computing," says G.P. Singh, director of Parrus IT
Solutions. "This is a key focus for us, because thin
client interest is rapidly expanding in India. Businesses
are quickly discovering how Neoware's solutions dramatically
reduce the high costs of desktop and client-server architectures."
Neoware
was recently ranked America's eighth fastest-growing company
by Fortune magazine. Neoware's software products enable
enterprises to gain control of their desktops, stream
software on-demand,
and to integrate mainframe, midrange, UNIX and Linux applications
with Windows(r) environments and the Web.
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