MandrakeSoft Will Bundle User Management Tool with 7.1 Release
SAN MATEO, Calif. and PARIS, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Enlighten Software
Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFTW), a leading provider of integrated event
monitoring and systems-management software for Linux, Unix, and Windows, and
MandrakeSoft, one of the world's leading Linux providers, today announced a
strategic partnership. As a result of the partnership, MandrakeSoft will
bundle Enlighten's cross-platform User Management with the MandrakeSoft 7.1
distribution. This technology will add sophisticated systems management
capability to MandrakeSoft Linux allowing customers to simultaneously manage
all users in the MandrakeSoft Linux environment from a single graphical
console.
MandrakeSoft customers will be able to select integrated User Management
upon installation of the MandrakeSoft Operating System. Enlighten User
Management will manage the account creation, configuration, and password
management of network user accounts and group membership. MandrakeSoft users,
upon registering the product at the Enlighten website, can download additional
User Management agents for Linux, Unix and Windows thus giving MandrakeSoft
customers single point graphical user management across the complete networked
environment. Additionally, MandrakeSoft customers can choose to upgrade to
the full EnlightenDSM product for comprehensive event monitoring and
administrative management of Linux, Unix, and Windows.
"Adding and managing users over time with their associated rights and
privileges can be a tedious, mundane and time consuming task, especially
working one machine at a time. MandrakeSoft customers can now automate this
function and focus on commercial implementation and new business opportunities
associated with Linux deployment and not have to worry about mundane
administration," said Bill Bradley, President and CEO of Enlighten Software.
"With the 7.1 release, MandrakeSoft customers will have a scalable
administrative solution that also extends new benefits to the customer's
existing network of Unix and Windows machines."
"We are excited to offer products that meet our customers' needs for
initial deployment and ongoing operations of successful Linux solutions.
MandrakeSoft is committed to mainstream commercial adoption of Linux, and
adding sophisticated, easy to use administration helps us achieve this goal
for our customers," said Frederic Bastok, Chief Officer, MandrakeSoft.
About Enlighten
Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. is the leading provider of single point
workgroup administration and event monitoring solutions for Linux, Unix, NT
and Windows in open systems distributed and Internet computing environments.
The company's award-winning EnlightenDSM product suite provides cost-effective
systems administration solutions for Linux (Red Hat, SuSE and TurboLinux), Sun
Microsystems, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, SGI, SCO, NT and Windows 95/98. The
EnlightenDSM product suite provides comprehensive functionality with
unprecedented ease of installation and use. The EnlightenDSM product suite
conforms with industry standard frameworks yet allows seamless integration
with other vendors' point solutions. For more information, please visit the
company's web site at http://www.EnlightenDSM.com .
About MandrakeSoft
MandrakeSoft produces and publishes the Open Source Linux-Mandrake
operating system and provides free access to source code published in
accordance with the General Public License (GPL). Several hundred developers
throughout the world contribute to the constant improvement of the product
directly over the Internet. Linux-Mandrake is a complete system with choices
of several powerful, pre-configured graphic interfaces (notably the leaders
KDE and Gnome), as well as more than 2000 applications including Netscape
Communicator, the StarOffice suite, and the Apache web server.
In a testament to its success, MandrakeSoft received the awards for "Best
Product of the Year" and "Best Linux-Distribution/Server" at LinuxWorld Expo
1999. The company has signed a strategic partnership with the American
publisher MacMillan and a distribution agreement with Kasper. In the months
of July and August 1999, Linux-Mandrake held the number one spot for Linux
sales in all of North American with the MacMillan Edition.
"Born on the Internet", MandrakeSoft established its offices in United
States and France.
Please visit the web site, http://www.linux-mandrake.com for more information.
MandrakeSoft, Inc. : 2400 N. Lincoln Avenue Altadena, CA 91001 - USA
MandrakeSoft S.A. : 43, rue d'Aboukir - 75002 Paris - France
The statements contained in this press release, other than historical
information, include forward-looking statements and are based on current
expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. Consequently, the Company's
actual results could differ materially from expectations expressed herein.
The various factors that could cause the Company's actual results to differ
include, but are not limited to, failure of the Company's products to gain
customer acceptance, quarterly fluctuations in results, the management of
growth, the ability to fund operations, the impact of competitive products and
pricing, the rapid pace with which technology changes, and other risks
detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission
filings. Actual results may differ materially from management expectations.
Enlighten is a registered trademark and EnlightenDSM is a trademark of
Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. All other product and company names may be
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mandrake and
Linux-Mandrake are trademarks of MandrakeSoft. All other trademarks and
copyrights are owned by their respective companies.
SOURCE Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Bill Bradley, President & CEO, or Steve
Giusti, VP Finance & CFO, both of Enlighten Software Solutions,
Inc., 650-578-0700; general, Virginia Turner, investors, Chris
Wood, or media, Mary Wallace, all of The Financial Relations
Board, 415-986-1591
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