INGENICA, the innovative leader in server-based printing solutions, today announced the launch of UniPrint Host Edition. Developed to cure printing inflexibility headaches in all mixed host systems (such as UNIX, AIX, AS/400, IBM Power Series, System z, and Linux) and Windows environments, UniPrint Host Edition enables all local and remote users on fat or thin clients working in a server-based (Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Server) or non server-based environment to benefit from enhanced printing flexibility.

The all-new UniPrint Host Edition enables organizations to build a de facto information bridge between their Line Printer Remote (LPR)-based systems and their Windows-based systems. The bridge makes it easy for users to access data stored on the host system, and print to a Windows-based printer. This innovative solution makes it simple to provide truly fast and flexible cross-platform printing.

UniPrint Host Edition further enhances printing flexibility in a mixed host-Windows environment by making it convenient for users to print, preview or archive print jobs. Taking advantage of the common, affordable, and easy-to-maintain Windows environment, UniPrint Host Edition converts print files into Portable Document Format (PDF) before transmitting them to a Windows desktop computer ready to print, preview, or save.

An easy-to-install and manage software-based solution, UniPrint Host Edition eliminates the need for organizations to invest the money, time and resources traditionally required to install and maintain a hardware-based printing solution, and reprogram the host side of the system.

“Surveys revealed that despite the fact customers found cross-platform printing made great sense from a productivity standpoint, they had given up on the idea because it posed too many problems, and because the only available software and hardware solutions were far too expensive and far too difficult to implement,” said Arron Fu, Vice President, Software Development, INGENICA. “The largest problem with printing in a mixed host-Windows environment is the inability to print data stored on host systems to a Windows-based printer,” Fu continued. “I am very pleased to announce that UniPrint Host Edition makes it simple and cost-effective to eliminate this problem completely.”

Compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and requiring minimal host-side modifications, UniPrint Host Edition eliminates the need for expensive software and hardware – such as Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS)-based printers. By simplifying both cross-platform printing and central management of print jobs, UniPrint Host Edition also enables Windows desktop users to retain advanced printer properties, such as tray mapping, stapling, and duplex printing.

UniPrint Host Edition is especially useful for users accessing the host system through a Citrix/Terminal Server session; accessing the host system via a dumb terminal; accessing the host system via a terminal emulation program; accessing the host system from home or via a mobile device; or requiring batch printing.

To take advantage of a free 30-day trial download of UniPrint Host Edition, please visit www.uniprint.net. UniPrint Host Edition can be purchased through UniPrint’s global reseller network. Please visit www.uniprint.net/HowToBuy.asp for more details.

About INGENICA

INGENICA (www.ingenica.net), a division of Bell Business Solutions, a Bell Canada Company (TSX, NYSE: BCE), is a recognized leader in the development of software-based solutions for the Server-based Computing (SbC) community. INGENICA’s award-winning solution, the UniPrint Suite of Products, offers a comprehensive range of printing solutions for both centralized and diversified network architectures, and for all systems, client platforms and devices. UniPrint replaces all manufacturers’ printer drivers with a single PDF generator to promote faster, more efficient printing that enables organizations to improve both productivity and return on existing IT investments. For additional information on UniPrint, please visit www.uniprint.net.

REDMOND, Wash. – June 26, 2008 – Following the launch of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft reached another milestone today with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. The nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version that have been distributed demonstrate how customer interest in virtualization is moving from evaluation to production environment deployments.

Virtualization can help companies maximize the value of IT investments, decreasing the server hardware footprint, energy consumption and cost and complexity of managing IT systems while increasing the flexibility of the overall environment. Microsoft’s strategy and investments in virtualization — which span from the desktop to the datacenter — help IT professionals and developers implement Microsoft’s Dynamic IT initiative, whereby they can build systems with the flexibility and intelligence to automatically adjust to changing business conditions by aligning computing resources with strategic objectives.

Hyper-V offers customers a reliable, scalable and high-performance virtualization platform that plugs into customers’ existing IT infrastructures and enables them to consolidate some of the most demanding workloads. In addition, the Microsoft System Center product family gives customers a single set of integrated tools to manage physical and virtual resources, helping customers create a more agile and dynamic datacenter.

“Customers who buy Windows Server 2008 are not only getting the scalability benefits, the high performance and reliability, and all the great things that Windows Server is known for; as of today they can benefit from integrated virtualization with Hyper-V,” said Bill Hilf, general manager of Windows Server Marketing and Platform Strategy at Microsoft.

Customers Going Virtual

More than 250 customers have participated in the early adopter programs for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Land O’Lakes, HotSchedules and The SCOOTER Store were some of the first customers to deploy Hyper-V and experience its benefits firsthand.

Minnesota-based Land O’Lakes suffered from a common IT challenge resulting from tremendous growth through mergers and acquisitions. The agricultural cooperative’s datacenter was packed with a compilation of aging servers running at an average utilization rate of just 3 percent, putting a considerable strain on IT resources.

IT pros call the condition “server sprawl,” and Land O’Lakes had a bad case of it. “We faced a combination of underutilized and aging hardware, applications running on outdated operating systems, and rising datacenter power and cooling costs,” said Jason Nord, the company’s server administrator.

To counter the problem, Land O’Lakes did what an increasing number of similarly challenged companies are doing: It turned to a virtualization solution. Specifically, it became an early adopter of Microsoft virtualization technologies, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

The company’s IT team initially rolled out a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 in its test and development environment, in which four physical servers each hosted 10 to 13 virtual machines, with each virtual machine running one application. During 2008, the team plans to migrate this environment to Hyper-V and to move an additional 10 to 15 new applications directly into virtual machines in the production environment, thus saving the cost of hardware servers.

“Our Microsoft virtualization solution is a key part of a business strategy we have at Land O’Lakes called Best Cost Initiative,” said Tony Taylor, the company’s director of IT services. “It’s not just about cutting costs, but about looking where our money is being spent and finding ways to leverage our investments across the company. Virtualization holds a lot of promise in helping us maximize the value of our IT investments.”

The Integrated Approach

To accompany Microsoft virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V, the System Center family of solutions delivers management tools to configure, operate, deploy and backup physical and virtual servers from the datacenter to the desktop — all from a single pane of glass. With proper management tools and processes, customers can control the power of virtualization and become agile, while still maintaining control. This can help prevent such issues as “virtual server sprawl” — one of the challenges that can be introduced by the increased use of server virtualization.

Ironically, this virtual equivalent of physical server sprawl stems from the ease with which virtual machines can be created. Some IT teams have allowed multiple groups within the organization to create their own virtual machines, only to lose track of them later. This kind of uncontrolled usage can lead to legal and security concerns.

“To truly see the full benefits of virtualization, it is critical to have the right processes and tools in place,” Hilf said. “That’s why management tools are so important — they are the glue that holds it all together and helps deliver the real benefits of virtualization.”

The ability to centralize server management was a key factor in The SCOOTER Store’s quest to find the right virtualization solution. The New Braunfels, Texas-based company is a leading provider of power mobility devices such as power chairs to help people with mobility challenges lead full, self-sufficient lives.

To manage the recent rapid growth and stay in compliance with ever-changing government mandates for documentation, reporting, consumer safety and patient privacy, the company must maintain agile and flexible IT systems.

To that end, The SCOOTER Store is virtualizing its server environment and centralizing server management using Virtual Server 2005 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007. As part of its overall virtualization strategy, the company is evaluating Hyper-V to increase the performance of its existing environment.

“Hyper-V is very exciting for us because it is integrated and designed into the operating system,” said Barrett Blake, The SCOOTER Store’s infrastructure architect. “I expect Hyper-V to be even easier to use, faster, and more efficient.”

By year’s end, the IT organization expects to increase the number of applications by 50 percent compared with its previous infrastructure, while reducing the number of physical servers required to host those applications by about 60 percent.

“We had a vision of a dynamic datacenter, and Microsoft technologies gave us a holistic approach to achieve it,” said Jay Greene, The SCOOTER Store’s senior vice president of IT and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) security officer. “By optimizing our environment with virtualization and centralized management, we deliver more functionality at lower cost, and we make IT a strategic contributor to the growth of the company.”

Scalability, Cost and Performance Benefits

Scalability and cost were prime considerations for Ray Pawlikowski as he sought a virtualization solution for his rapidly growing company, HotSchedules. The Austin, Texas-based company specializes in online labor scheduling, offering employees of clients such as The Cheesecake Factory, Outback Steakhouse and P.F. Chang’s access to their work schedules on the Web, text messaging, e-mail and the ability to pick up and release shifts, among other benefits.

With nearly a quarter-million users and 4 million logins per month, the 10-year-old business has doubled in size each year for the past couple years and shows no sign of slowing down. Like Land O’Lakes’ IT team, Pawlikowski signed up for the Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) to test Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and is glad he did. “By virtualizing everything, we have been able to increase our server utilization by a factor of 10, providing dramatic opportunities in consolidation and power savings,” he said.

Hyper-V’s scalability derives from its support for multiple processors and cores at the host level and improved memory limits at the host and guest level within virtual machines. This enables customers to scale their virtualization environment to support a large number of virtual machines within a given host and to take advantage of quick migration for high availability across multiple hosts.

HotSchedules is running 40 physical servers, and Pawlikowski wants to reduce that number by 50 percent to 75 percent. The IT organization is also running 14 virtual machines with applications running faster on the virtual servers than they did on the physical servers used previously. This is a critical benefit that keeps the company’s Web-based application responsive.

Customers are not the only ones benefiting from the increasing demand for virtualization. Microsoft storage partner QLogic today published a benchmark for I/O throughput for storage devices going through Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. At 180,000 I/Os per second on a system running Hyper-V, virtual machine connections are just 10 percent shy of native performance. This benchmark demonstrates Hyper-V’s ability to bring the advantages of virtualization to the most demanding datacenter.

Meanwhile, Microsoft itself has been using Hyper-V in production environments, including heavy-traffic Web properties such as MSDN, TechNet and Microsoft.com. MSDN has more than 3 million average page views per day, TechNet averages more than 1 million per day, and Microsoft.com averages more than 38 million per day. By the end of June, Microsoft.com is targeted to be 50 percent virtualized with Hyper-V.

A Familiar Platform

A major differentiator for Hyper-V is the familiarity of the Windows platform. For example, HotSchedules’ Pawlikowski looked at a number of other virtualization technologies, including VMware ESX Server, but his company has strong ties with Dell, which made a compelling case for Microsoft’s early-adopter program.

“Not only is Hyper-V faster, it’s also faster to get up to speed with,” Pawlikowski said. “It’s integrated with our existing platform and with the familiar roles in Windows Server 2008, so our knowledge base didn’t have to change too much and I didn’t have to re-tool our IT staff to move forward with virtualization.”

Microsoft’s Hilf says that’s a particularly compelling reason for customers to choose Hyper-V. “It’s been designed as a Windows feature, which our customers know, so those with Windows Server certification will be familiar with it; the people who have all the in-house skills on Windows Server will know how to use it.”

To help both customers and partners assess whether their existing servers are good candidates for virtualization using Hyper-V, Microsoft has released the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 3.1 Beta to help accelerate virtualization planning and deployment. The final release of MAP 3.1 is expected in July and will be available for free at http://www.microsoft.com/MAP. MAP belongs to a family of Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators including Infrastructure Planning and Design guides and the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool.

In addition, more than 130 independent software vendors (ISVs) have certified a total of 150 applications on Windows Server 2008. Symantec, Diskeeper and IBM are the first three vendors to achieve the new Certified for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V designation. This designation identifies applications that have been independently tested to exploit Hyper-V capabilities and meet mission-critical expectations in a virtualized environment.

Microsoft continues to work with its partners to meet customers’ needs for interoperable solutions. The alliance with Citrix Systems in the areas of VDI and virtual machine portability between the Xen Hypervisor and Hyper-V provides customers with broader deployment scenarios. Additionally, the extensive collaboration with Novell enables customers to take advantage of virtualization in mixed Microsoft and SuSE  Linux environments.

Along the same lines, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vendors such as Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., HP, IBM, NEC, Sun Microsystems and Unisys are already qualified to ship and create systems with Hyper-V. In all, 250 systems from server and white-box vendors are already logo-qualified for Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. More information can be found at http://www.windowsservercatalog.com.

The Road Ahead

Customers can now download the final version of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

“There have already been over 1 million evaluations of Hyper-V, and with this release IT organizations everywhere can move it from the lab to production to fully experience the benefits that Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 can bring,” Hilf said. He added that customers can also use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, now in beta, to help them best configure and deploy their hypervisor-based environments.

New customers and partners can download Hyper-V at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V. Customers who have deployed Windows Server 2008 can receive Hyper-V from Windows Update beginning July 8.

SANTA CLARA, CA » 6/26/2008 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced European language and telephone system support for the Citrix® EasyCall™ feature in Citrix® XenDesktop™ .  EasyCall, which is also available as a feature of Citrix® XenApp™ and Citrix® NetScaler™, provides the simplest and most intuitive way of seamlessly integrating communications into any application. With its newest release, EasyCall now includes German, French and Spanish (Castilian) language capabilities as well as integration with leading European telephone systems from Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent. As a result, customers delivering virtual desktops with XenDesktop can now provide an even richer experience to end users in more countries around the world.

As leading software companies begin integrating communications capabilities into their newer applications, customers are beginning to recognize additional cost savings and user productivity. Using EasyCall, customers can now instantly communications-enable all of their existing applications as well with no modification to the applications, telephones or phone systems required. Communication-enabling applications with EasyCall enables users to initiate instant click-to-call capabilities from any telephone number within any application using their company’s existing corporate phone system and rates — thus increasing worker productivity and saving costs on phone charges for users working from home or other remote locations.

First generation virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions simply moved desktops into the datacenter in an attempt to save costs. Next generation desktop delivery systems like XenDesktop dynamically assemble virtualized desktops at runtime and deliver them over the network on demand with LAN-like performance and a rich user experience. In addition to reducing costs for IT, this approach provides end users with a desktop experience that is often even better than using a traditional PC. By incorporating communications capabilities like EasyCall as a built-in feature, XenDesktop now takes this user experience advantage to another level while saving companies further costs in telephony infrastructure and phone service charges.

To engage EasyCall, users simply hover over any telephone number in any application and a small pop-up dialer appears over the number.  When the user clicks on the dialer, EasyCall initiates a call between the user’s preferred telephone – office, mobile or home – and the destination number, employing that user’s corporate telephone system and billing the call at their standard corporate rates, regardless of where the user is actually located.

“EasyCall is another great example of how Citrix is working to improve the user experience by integrating value-added services. Expanded language and telephone system support extend this increased value to our European customers and to new products like XenDesktop,” said Barry Phillips, group vice president and general manager of the Advanced Solutions Group at Citrix. “We believe desktop virtualization should provide a better user experience than a traditional PC and are excited about new capabilities like EasyCall that are helping to make that vision a reality.”  

How EasyCall Saves Money
EasyCall works with both legacy and IP-enabled telephone systems, such as those offered by Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent, providing advanced communication capabilities without the need to switch to IP telephony, saving companies thousands of dollars in unnecessary upgrade costs.  In addition, because EasyCall can seamlessly discover phone numbers from any application, additional integration pieces are not required, which saves dollars otherwise spent on integration services.

EasyCall enables additional cost savings for remote users.  Employees working away from the office can use EasyCall to dial internationally using negotiated corporate telephone system rates instead of mobile phone international long distance rates.  Employees in an informal outbound contact center can make more calls per day as EasyCall automates the dialing of calls from a customer information application. This equates to having fewer contact agents and generating more revenue per day.   

Pricing and Availability
EasyCall is included as a standard feature of Citrix XenDesktop Platinum Edition, Citrix NetScaler Platinum Edition and Citrix XenApp Platinum Edition at no additional charge and is available today through authorized resellers worldwide.  Customers receive entitlement to a specific number of EasyCall licenses when purchasing or upgrading to the Platinum Edition of these products.  EasyCall licenses are activated via a Citrix EasyCall Gateway that plugs easily into any corporate phone system and can normally be installed in under an hour. The suggested retail price of a Citrix ®EasyCall™ Gateway appliance is $3,500 and can support approximately 4,000 end users.

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.

For Citrix Investors
This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release, which are not strictly historical statements, involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the uncertainty in the IT spending environment and the risk of a downturn in economic conditions generally, revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, competitive factors, the Company’s key strategic relationships, acquisitions and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein.

LAS VEGAS, June 16, 2008 - HP today introduced the industry’s first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.

The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem supports high transaction volumes and provides real-time response capabilities in a cost-effective design.

By combining the high-availability features of HP Integrity NonStop with the cost, change, time and energy efficiencies of HP BladeSystem, the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem is an ideal replacement platform for mainframe applications in industries such as finance, public sector and telecommunications.

Using the same amount of power as existing NonStop server offerings,⁽¹⁾ the NB50000c delivers twice the performance and occupies half the data center space. Additionally, the NonStop BladeSystem offers 35 percent lower total cost of ownership than competing offerings and up to a 50 percent decrease in cost per transaction.⁽²⁾

The server was introduced at the HP Technology Forum & Expo, HP’s premiere technical training event that brings together top customers, partners, developers and engineers.

With this addition to its server blade portfolio, HP is the first company in the industry to offer a full array of blade solutions for businesses ranging from midsize to those requiring 24/7 availability.

“The new Integrity NonStop BladeSystem provides 24/7 business availability and scalability to our customers through the economies of a bladed form factor,” said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, Technology Solutions Group, HP. “This is yet another example of how HP enables customers to manage and transform their technology for better business outcomes.”

Modular, 24/7 mission-critical computing

The world’s leading stock exchanges, emergency services and telecommunications companies rely on Integrity NonStop to support high volumes of mission-critical transaction processing. The Integrity NonStop BladeSystem offers a new way to transition customers’ most-demanding applications onto a highly efficient, modular form factor.

“We’re looking for performance,” said John Hart, managing director of technology engineering at CME Group, the parent company of the merged Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. “We expect the blade environment to help us take advantage of faster processing speeds and immediately apply that to the [CME] Globex trading platform. We expect to see improvement in cost per transaction, throughput and response time, with additional gains as the system is tuned. The blade environment is also more compact; it will use less space in our data center, and space is a premium for us.”

The NonStop operating environment offered on a standards-based blade design ensures the highest levels of reliability. Its fault-containment design protects data while error-recovery features eliminate downtime.

Key features and customer benefits of the new HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem include:

• double the processing power in half the physical footprint through multi-core technology and HP BladeSystem;
• reduced administrative costs with enhanced system management tools such as HP Integrity Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2), HP Systems Insight Manager and the Onboard Administrator for HP BladeSystem;
• patented 24/7 fault-tolerant software built on standard components for reduced cost of ownership.

New incentive program helps customers trade up to blades

Across the globe, HP is enabling customers to cost-effectively modernize legacy mainframe applications on HP Integrity NonStop servers.

To assist them, HP has announced a new “NonStop FREEdom” incentive program that provides an HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem at no charge and a full year of NonStop platform software to customers who choose to migrate from costly mainframe architectures.

Offered with Logica, a leading IT and business services company, the program helps mainframe customers take advantage of the more efficient HP blade platform. More details on this new program are available at www.hp.com/go/nonstopfreedom.

Availability and pricing

The HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem is available today. For pricing information, please contact HP at +1 800 282 6672. More information on HP Integrity NonStop is available at www.hp.com/go/nonstop and more information on HP BladeSystem is available at www.hp.com/go/bladesystem.

About HP

HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers – from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $110.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2008. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

Oslo, Norway — June 12, 2008

Opera Software today released to the world the final public release of its flagship Web browser, Opera 9.5. Opera’s cross-device expertise, support for open Web standards and commitment to speed and performance culminate to create the most powerful Opera browser yet. Making its desktop debut in Opera 9.5, Opera Link blurs the boundaries between computers and mobile phones by enabling a seamless Web experience from device to device. Opera 9.5 for Windows, Mac and Linux systems is available free from www.opera.com.

What’s new in Opera 9.5

Opera Link: Your bookmarks, Speed Dial and even notes taken in the Opera browser can follow you anywhere. Opera Link keeps you synchronized between any Opera 9.5 desktop browser and Opera Mini, Opera’s free browser for your mobile phone. In Opera 9.5 write a note — copy directions, create shopping lists or jot down anything you need to remember — and access it on any Opera 9.5 browser by simply logging in.

Find anything: If you can remember a word from a page you’ve read earlier, you can find that page easily with Quick Find. Just enter a word in the address bar to find matching text from any page you have visited.

Looking sharp: Opera makes a move to modernize its look and feel to a sharp new skin with clean lines and clear icons. The ‘New Tab’ button and other elements have been modified to make the switch to a better Web experience more intuitive. You may also select any of our platform-specific skins to help Opera’s appearance adapt to your operating system of choice.

Strengthened defense against malware and phishing: Opera’s Fraud Protection not only protects you from fraudulent Web sites, it is now the first browser publically available to protect you from malware and other malicious software on the Web. Powered by Haute Secure, Netcraft, and PhishTank, Opera’s Fraud Protection technology automatically blocks offending Web pages to keep you out of harm’s way.

Speed: Opera continues to lead in performance. Opera 9.5 makes dramatic speed improvements to the e-mail client, RSS feeds and the browser itself, so you can spend more time getting things done online.

Of course Opera 9.5 includes many features Opera users have already come to know and love. Speed Dial, notes, the ability to save and restore browsing sessions after you close the browser, a trash can for accidentally closed tabs or e-mails, mouse gestures and many others bring a fresh approach to browsing the Web. Discover Opera for yourself today.

“Opera 9.5 represents the culmination of two years spent listening to our community and transforming our browser to add features and capabilities they have requested,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Opera 9.5 offers new possibilities and capabilities. It’s faster, lighter and pushes us further out in front of other browsers, by blending the mobile and desktop worlds together in new and powerful ways. We invite everyone to join us as we continue to shape the way the Web will evolve.”

Availability

Opera 9.5 is available for Linux, Mac and PC computers and ships in more than 30 languages with additional languages soon available. Opera ire your thoughts at: my.opera.com/.

Press kit

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Demo

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About Opera Software ASA

Opera Software ASA has redefined Web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices. Opera’s cross-platform Web browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the world. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. Learn more about Opera at http://www.opera.com.

SANTA CLARA, CA » 6/9/2008 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced the first solution in the industry designed to provide highly scalable secure access to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. The newest release of the company’s popular Citrix Access Gateway™ appliance now includes integration with Citrix XenDesktop™, allowing companies to deliver virtual desktops securely to thousands of end users based on their unique identity, location and security status. Unlike traditional virtual private network (VPN) and network access control (NAC) solutions which control access solely to the network, Citrix Access Gateway provides intelligent access directly to approved applications and desktops through its innovative SmartAccess technology, an increasingly important requirement as datacenter resources become more virtualized and physically separated from end users.

By providing highly scalable secure access for virtual desktops, Citrix is making it easier for IT organizations to realize the tremendous security and cost reduction benefits that come from centralizing applications and desktops in the datacenter and delivering them virtually to end users in any location. The new Citrix Access Gateway 8.1 release accomplishes this by introducing the following key features:

• SmartAccess for Virtual DesktopsAccess Gateway’s innovative SmartAccess technology allows IT departments to provide access to specific applications and data based on the user’s identity, location and results of an end point analysis of the client device. Extending this capability to virtual desktops makes it easier for corporations to move to a delivered desktop model without compromising security or end user experience.
• Improved Scalability for Secure Virtual Desktop AccessAdding a highly scalable Access Gateway appliance in front of virtual desktops in the datacenter can dramatically enhance an organization’s ability to deliver XenDesktop securely to thousands of XenDesktop users, regardless of how far away they are from corporate headquarters.
• Fast Configuration and DeploymentNew Access Gateway configuration wizards simplify and accelerate deployment in a virtual desktop environment by automating several commonly performed XenDesktop configuration tasks. In addition, new standalone MSI packaging for Windows simplifies and automates client installation by enabling administrative deployments through the broadly-available standard software deployment tools.

“With this announcement, Citrix is really delivering on its promise to bring the virtualized desktop closer, and more securely, to users,” said Zeus Kerravala of Yankee Group.  ”By offering the industry’s only out-of-the-box smart access solution for virtual desktops, Citrix is making virtualized desktops more compelling for IT organizations.”

“Partnering with Citrix allows us to offer our clients a one of a kind solution for virtual desktops,” said Steve Daly, director of systems engineering at Accelera Solutions. “Strengthening its strategic focus on application level access with SmartAccess, Citrix Access Gateway is an easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy solution that meets enterprise requirements for secure access and delivery of applications and virtual desktops. As a valued partner, we are happy to work with Citrix on the expanded market opportunities that secure access of virtual desktops brings to us.”

“The new release of Citrix Access Gateway for XenDesktop solves a thorny issue that enterprises face today. Enterprise customers can now restrict the access and use of desktops and approved applications from a central location, without network reconfiguration or end client software changes,” said Sanjay Uppal, vice president of product marketing at Citrix Systems, Inc. “By integrating scalable secure access with the Citrix XenDesktop product line, we greatly simplify the control of critical datacenter resources without compromising security.”

Pricing and Availability
These capabilities are available today in the new 8.1 release of Citrix Access Gateway. Access Gateway user licenses are included at no additional charge with Citrix XenDesktop purchases. Appliances must be purchased separately, starting at a suggested retail price of $3,500 per appliance.

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.

Brandon LeBlanc published on Windows Experience blog an announcement of Windows Search 4.0:

Today we released the final version of Windows Search 4.0 to Microsoft Download Center. Windows Search 4.0 updates search in Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server. This release comes after a public Windows Search 4.0 Preview, which was a success thanks to great community participation - with around 300,000 downloads.   Since the Preview was released, a number of quality improvements have been made to the product based on feedback provided by the community.

Download: Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (x86)

Download: Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (x64)

More download packages are available on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157.

So, what’s new in this release?

First and foremost: we’ve introduced some performance and reliability improvements. Queries are faster, as is indexing - how much faster depends on your machine and your data. Improved reliability means that system failures won’t get in the way of the indexer and all of your data will be scanned and available for searches.

We’ve also extended remote index discovery, also known as PC-to-PC searches, which allows data to be searched quickly and efficiently across machines running Windows Search 4.0. This means that Windows Vista-to-Windows XP or Windows Vista-to-Windows Server 2008 queries are now possible.

Additionally, Windows Search 4.0 offers manageability improvements that IT Pros should take note of.

For starters, we have extended Group Policy to control more aspects of search functionality and made this control more granular with per-user policies. You can use Group Policy Objects to control how desktop search accesses remote resources - such as Microsoft Exchange Server resources or file shares - to manage network utilization.

Speaking of accessing Microsoft Exchange Server - if your organization selects not to use Microsoft Office Outlook in cached mode, you can set a Group Policy to index Exchange in online mode.  Windows Search 4.0 will then index with minimal impact to the server. Our internal testing of this configuration shows significant decrease in the load on the server and the network as compared to Windows Desktop Search 3.01.

IT Pros can deploy a new link that will be added to the Instant Search UI of Windows Vista (or Windows Search UI on Windows XP) on client PCs and allow the query entered in the search box to access your company’s search server, by opening the search UI of the server in your browser and executing the query in it. With this functionality, users get a single launch pad for all of their searches. For more information on how to add customized links into the instant Search UI, click here.

Based on a large amount of customer feedback, we have added support for indexing files encrypted with EFS. Users in an organization can now encrypt files and still be able to search their contents. When running on Windows Vista, they also can get an additional level of data protection by using BitLocker and storing their index on the protected drive.

Today, Windows Search 4.0 can be downloaded for installation (download links from Microsoft Download Center listed above). If you need Windows Search 4.0 deployed in a large organization, you can use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or other infrastructure solutions.

In the future, we will make Windows Search 4.0 available on Windows Update as well. At that time you will be able to install Windows Search 4.0 off the update site directly or deploy it in your organization using WSUS.

Once Windows Search 4.0 becomes available on Windows Update various Windows users will experience the following:

• Windows XP users will see it as an “optional” update, which requires users to select the update for installation.
• Users running Windows Vista will see the update as “recommended.” By default, recommended updates are installed automatically; however, users can prevent automatic installation of Windows Search 4.0. We will publicly post specific instructions prior to publishing Windows Search 4.0 on Windows Update.
• On Windows Server 2008, the update will be applicable only if the File Server Role is enabled.

More on the improvements in Windows Search 4.0 can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157.

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SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-June 2, 2008-To meet the growing demand for higher-capacity, more efficient enterprise storage systems, Seagate (NYSE:STX) today introduced the Savvio® 10K.3 hard drive – the world’s highest-capacity, small form factor 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive built for the demands of enterprise servers and storage arrays. This latest generation of 2.5-inch drive offers 70% lower power and greater than 60% performance density over traditional 3.5-inch drives. As the only 10K-rpm 2.5-inch enterprise design backed by two prior generations of field-proven reliability, the Savvio 10K.3 drive leads the industry with 300GB of capacity, reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an advanced SAS 2.0 (6Gb/sec data rate) interface. Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive is also the industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting enterprise drive with government-grade Full Disk Encryption (FDE) data protection.

“The combination of higher capacity and 6Gb SAS on an enterprise-class small form factor disk drive, like the Savvio 10K.3 drive, continues to entice the industry to move from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch based solutions for use in enterprise storage systems and arrays,” said Dave Reinsel, vice president of Storage Research at IDC. “IDC predicts that shipments of small form factor enterprise drives into enterprise solutions will outnumber 3.5-inch enterprise drive shipments by 2010.”

Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive was built to accommodate a wide range of mainstream enterprise storage applications, where both high capacity and low power consumption are critical requirements within an IT organization.

“Seagate was the pioneer of the 2.5-inch form factor enterprise standard, stemming from work with customers to better understand data center requirements, including the need for greater storage performance density, while continuing to focus on reducing power consumption and cooling costs,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. “The Savvio 10K and 15K families have evolved into becoming the most widely-adopted 2.5-inch enterprise drive families throughout the enterprise. Now, with the introduction of the 300GB Savvio 10K.3 drive, more versatile storage systems can be built based upon this sweet-spot capacity.”

Major OEM evaluations of the Savvio 10K.3 drive have begun. General product availability is planned for the second half of calendar year 2008.

Savvio 10K.3 Product Details
Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive offers tremendous improvements over 3.5-inch 300GB 15K-rpm drives including a 70% power savings. Savvio 10K.3 performance is even greater at a system level, delivering a 60% improvement in IOPS density, while also providing at least twice the capacity. These 2.5-inch drive advantages in total translate into greater overall value and reduced total cost of ownership to IT organizations and administrators eager to optimize their data center’s power and performance efficiency.

The Savvio 10K.3 is also the world’s first drive to operate at 6Gb/sec transfer rates, which is part of the new SAS 2.0 feature set. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to be ideally-suited for use in high-end network storage applications.

Delivering on Seagate’s commitment to add security features throughout its product portfolio, Savvio 10K.3 will be offered with self-encrypting FDE technology. As the industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting drive, the Savvio 10K.3 provides data-at-rest protection for its entire life cycle.

Seagate Helps Data Centers Focus on Going Green with PowerTrim™ Technology
Seagate’s next-generation PowerTrim technology is integrated into the Savvio 10K.3 drive and manages drive power consumption during idle activity. With PowerTrim technology, the Savvio 10K.3 addresses the IT dilemma facing energy-constrained data centers by delivering best-in-class power savings.

For more information about the Seagate Savvio 10K.3 drive as well as the Seagate’s entire family of enterprise products, visit www.seagate.com.

About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate’s business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com.

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Savvio and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

TechGenix team is proud to announce the launch of VirtualizationAdmin.com .

VirtualizationAdmin.com is a site dedicated to various virtualization technologies, such as hypervisors, vm servers, application virtualization. The new site also includes blogs, forums and FAQs. MSTerminalServices.org became a part of VirtualizationAdmin.com .

Feel free to check out the new site. I hope you ll find it interesting.

Boca Raton, FL – June 2, 2008 – ScriptLogic® Corporation, a leading provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® Windows®-based networks, today announced its Active Directory Management Solution, a bundled solution that combines Quest® ActiveRoles Server™ and Spotlight® on Active Directory with ScriptLogic’s just-released Active Administrator® 5.0. Together, these three solutions allow total management of the Active Directory lifecycle, thereby enhancing security, compliance and productivity. This new version of ScriptLogic’s flagship Active Directory administration solution, Active Administrator, provides enterprise-class performance and now offers enhanced usability and Active Directory auditing, as well as support for Microsoft Windows Server® 2008.

ScriptLogic’s Active Administrator 5.0 provides centralized event auditing, recovery and Group Policy management, while ActiveRoles Server empowers administrators to delegate Active Directory authority to junior IT staff and create approval workflows. Spotlight on Active Directory provides visual active directory health monitoring, problem diagnosis and performance optimization. The combined features of these products address every facet of Active Directory management.

ScriptLogic’s Active Directory Management Solution offers a number of key benefits including centralized auditing of Active Directory changes, instant, online recovery of deletions, and the ability to “undo” Active Directory changes. Moreover, the bundled solution offers advanced Group Policy management and policy-based delegation for department and junior administrators.

What’s new in ScriptLogic’s Active Administrator 5.0?

Active Administrator has had tremendous success managing thousands of servers across a diverse array of enterprises. Today, ScriptLogic announces the latest version of one of its most popular IT management tools. New features include:

• Improved Usability—The latest version includes a new user interface, centralized Active Administrator server management, multiple domain navigation, key menu functions available on toolbar buttons, as well as more tool tips, wizards and icons.
• Enhanced Active Directory Auditing—New report management and schedule framework, revised alert management and configuration functionality, the ability to collect and filter more information from each event, and improved resilience, scalability and performance in data collectors all make auditing much more efficient.
• Windows Server 2008 Support—Version 5.0 now provides support for new events and ADMX-based Group Policies.

“Enhancements in the latest version of ScriptLogic’s Active Administrator make this very popular Active Directory management tool even more efficient and user-friendly,” said Jon Rolls, senior director of product management at ScriptLogic.
“Moreover, this enterprise-class product enables greater scalability and resilience, providing a more robust audit trail and ensuring customers derive the maximum value from investments in their Active Directory infrastructure.”

Pricing and Availability

ScriptLogic’s Active Directory Management Solution is licensed by user account and is available for between 500 and 5000 users, at $30 per user before volume discounts. The Active Directory Management Solution includes Quest ActiveRoles Server, Quest Spotlight on Active Directory and ScriptLogic Active Administrator 5.0; however, each product may be purchased separately. A free 30-day evaluation of this solution set and all software solutions from ScriptLogic are available at www.scriptlogic.com.

About ScriptLogic

ScriptLogic Corporation is a leading global provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft Windows-based networks. ScriptLogic’s award-winning suite of Desktop management software, Server management, Active Directory management, and Help Desk software products help empower network administrators to proactively save time, increase security, and maintain regulatory compliance. More than 23,200 customers use ScriptLogic solutions to manage approximately 5.7 million desktops and 138,000 servers. ScriptLogic solutions benefit any size network in any industry. ScriptLogic, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT). Reach ScriptLogic at (561) 886-2400 or on the Web at http://www.scriptlogic.com