Wyse Technology Spins-off Management Software Company

Rapport Technologies Inc. to Address Market Need for Embedded Device Management

San Jose, CA – 2002/08/05 - Wyse® 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 to develop an industry standard for embedded 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 will operate as an independent U.S.-based company, with Wyse Technology serving as Rapport Technologies' initial channel of distribution for Rapport Management Software to the end customer. Wyse will continue to market, sell and support the Wyse Rapport 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. The company will be located in North Dallas, 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 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, president and CEO of Wyse Technology Inc. "The spin-off of Rapport Technologies 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 identity and purpose, the ability to look at markets in a non-traditional manner, and a development environment that lets creativity flourish."

過去のプレスリリース

Wyse Technology Inc.は、シンクライアント・コンピューティング・ソリューションのトップベンダーであり、コンピューターの利用に関わる管理やコストをネットワークへ移行するためのハードウェアであるシンクライアントと管理ソフトウェアおよびサービスを提供します。これによりIT部門は、不要となったサポート／メンテナンス業務から解放され、ユーザーは本来の職務の生産性向上に集中することができます。加えて、秘密情報やビジネス・アプリケーションに対するアクセスを保護する事によりセキュリティを強化します。米国カリフォルニア州サンノゼに本社を置き、世界中にオフィスを構えるWyse Technologyは、過去7年間にわたりシンクライアント市場シェアナンバーワンを独占してきました。また、Microsoft 社の「Embedded Partner of the Year」を3年間にわたり受賞しています。FedEx、Best Buy(カナダ)、Quaker Foods、Gold's Gymなどの企業でWyse製品をご利用いただいています。Wyseに関する詳細は http://www.wyse.co.jp へアクセスするか　もしくは、info@wyse.co.jp へお問い合わせください。