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CALDERA, FOUR OTHERS CHOOSE CONNECT PUBLIC RELATIONS
PROVO, Utah-June 9, 2000-Connect Public Relations, a leading high-tech PR firm, announced today that Access360, Caldera, Efficient Networks, Kurant, and Portalwave have retained the companys services for strategic marketing and public relations. Connect Public Relations specializes in high-tech public relations and is known for its market focus, experienced staff, editor/analyst relations and emphasis on results. The five new clients will receive specialized services including editorial support, strategic counsel and other specific public relations services.
These companies bring a wealth of diversity to Connect Public Relations client roster," said Neil Myers, president for Connect PR. These new clients will add an additional $1.1 million in new business for Connect Public Relations over the next 12 months. All five of these companies are on the forefront of high-tech business solutions and bring excitement and innovation to the coverage we offer this industry."
Access360, headquartered in Irvine, Calif, is a leading provider of Internet infrastructure. Access360s flagship product, eNable is designed to allow businesses to fully control all aspects of their business -- from security to provisioning -- through a single, auditable point of control. Access360, a privately held company, has offices in Asia and Europe.
Located in Orem, Utah, Caldera Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD) is the leader in providing Linux-based business solutions. Calderas award winning OpenLinux products and services are full-featured, 32-bit, solutions designed to expand an eBusiness Internet/intranet, network, and desktop capabilities.
Delivering broadband communications products since 1993, Efficient Networks, (Nasdaq: EFNT) offers one of the most comprehensive lines of broadband access products in the industry and specializes on DSL products. Efficient, based in Dallas, also has a major presence in Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Amsterdam and has satellite offices located across the globe.
San Francisco based, Kurant is a privately held Internet commerce and database solutions provider for businesses from the small entrepreneur to large size corporate giants. Their flagship software product, StoreSense, is a turnkey software platform designed to turn an eBusiness into a viable storefront with secure transactions, supply chain management, and transaction processing. Kurant also offers the software preinstalled on a server for ISPs applications.
Portalwave, a privately held company in Sunnyvale, Calif., has created an expandable and adaptable e-business portal platform written in Java and powered by XML. The technology created by Portalwave provides full interaction between a variety of applications and systems -- regardless of the system which is accessing them, enabling all users to interact with all types of software quickly and seamlessly.
About Connect Public Relations
Connect PR is a high-tech public relations firm with offices in Provo, Utah, and San Francisco, Calif. For more than 10 years, Connect PR has specialized in media relations for the connectivity, dot com and Internet infrastructure industries. Representing the top networking, e-business and software vendors in the world, such as Symantec F5 Networks, AVT, AskMe.com, and ePolicy. In its first year of eligibility, Connect PR-then called Network Associates-was ranked #220 on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in America.
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