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News Release Leading European Retailer Chooses
ON Technology System Largest independent Swiss fashion
retailer selects ON Command CCM Waltham, MA, June 19, 2001 – ON Technology (Nasdaq NM: ONTC), a leading provider of remote software management solutions, today announced that Charles Voegele Group has selected ON Command CCM™ to manage business-critical software across its corporate network of 1,700 Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals and merchandising systems at 698 stores in five European countries. ON Command CCM will allow Charles Voegele, Switzerland’s largest independent fashion retailer, to remotely deploy and control all software installations and updates from centralized ON servers, eliminating the need to send technicians to remote sites. ON Command CCM will remotely manage 65 store applications, including POS software, merchandise management applications, credit card reader software, and touch-screen applications, for the company’s NCR POS terminals and Siemens store PCs. The system will also be used to remotely deploy and manage Windows NT operating systems across the company’s corporate network. Charles Voegele expects ON Command CCM to significantly reduce IT operating costs, improve IT quality of service, and enhance availability of its mission-critical business applications. With annual revenues totaling more than 1 billion Swiss francs, the group depends on its information systems to manage thousands of daily transactions and give the management team the data needed for developing successful business strategies. “ON Command CCM imposes very modest system requirements, but permits unrestricted, centralized client administration. That means lower IT costs for us and improved PC availability,” says Eduardo Stahel, Manager POS at Charles Voegele Trading AG. “Our IT department can now manage more computers at lower cost than before, which directly impacts our return on investment and total cost of ownership.” “Charles Voegele’s selection of ON Command CCM to manage remote store devices demonstrates our ability to penetrate large new markets outside of the traditional corporate setting,” said Robert L. Doretti, ON Technology Chairman, President and CEO. “It also validates the extensibility of our architecture to a range of distributed network environments where robust and unattended remote software management is increasingly required for organizations to remain ultra-efficient and competitive.” The entire project was completed in only three months, demonstrating ON Command CCM’s unique ability to solve real-world IT problems quickly and reliably. Safetec Consulting AG, an ON Technology partner located in Zug, Switzerland, was responsible for rolling out the project to new branches and integrating all existing POS terminals and merchandising systems into the new management environment. About ON Technology Corporation ###
ON Technology, ON Command, and ON Command CCM are registered trademarks, and the ON logo and ON iCommand are trademarks of ON Technology Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other brand names and trademarks are properties of their respective owners. The statements in this press release that relate to ON Technology’s future plans, events and performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Some of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements are general economic conditions, including the current weakness in the global economy, demand for the Company’s products and services, performance of the Company’s direct and indirect distribution channels, competitive pressures, market acceptance of the Company’s new products and technologies, and the risk factors detailed from time to time in ON Technology’s periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the third quarter of 2003 filed in November 2003. Actual results and performance may differ materially due to these and other factors. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. ON Technology undertakes no obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained in this press release that may reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
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