STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 29, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Bull Infrastructure & Systems, the net.infrastructure supplier, and Roxen Internet Software (SSE:ROX), the award-winning provider of Web content management software, announced today the availability of the Intel(r) Itanium(TM) architecture-enabled Roxen Web Content Management software on the 64 bit Linux(r), Microsoft(r) Windows(r) Whistler and AIX 5L(TM) operating systems running on Bull's Escala IL enterprise line of Itanium(TM) -based servers.
"Roxen Internet Software is delighted to partner with Bull in order to leverage its technology skills, particularly in the new Intel(r) Itanium(TM) architecture environment," said Lars Hoegberg, CEO, Roxen Internet Software. "The combination of Bull's infrastructure expertise and Roxen's Web Content Management software will bring powerful, efficient and scalable e-solutions to our mutual customers and partners," Hoegberg further stated.
"Many organizations are burdened today with IT infrastructures that are ill-equipped to scale to the growing demands that their web sites are facing in terms of volume of data and frequency of updates," said Jean-Philippe Chiarella, Vice-President, Open Systems, Bull Infrastructure and Systems. "Through the cooperation with Roxen, we will offer our customers and partners a scalable infrastructure that will allow organizations to deploy and manage powerful content management solutions on our Escala IL servers based on Intel(r) Itanium(TM) Architecture," continued Chiarella.
Scheduled for first customer shipments in mid June 2001, the Bull/Roxen technology based on Intel(r) Itanium(TM) architecture will be positioned to fulfill enterprise expectations from scalable entry level systems through to large-scale, mission-critical web environments, and will offer unprecedented technological and organizational scalability in the creation, deployment and management of corporate and enterprise web sites.
Escala IL is Bull's new line of Itanium(TM)-based servers designed to handle the needs of the growing new generation of highly demanding business applications and infrastructures such as: Windows(r) consolidation and scale-up; large database and data warehousing, ERP/CRM applications; highly secure Internet environments and high-performance computing. Bull's Escala IL servers are a significant extension to Bull's long-established and well-known Escala family, which is the most open of all 64-bit server ranges in the market, embracing two processor architectures (Escala PL servers based on RISC architecture and Escala IL based on Intel(r) Itanium(TM) architecture) and three complementary operating systems (64-bit Linux(r), Microsoft(r) Windows(r) Whistler and AIX 5L(TM)). This provides outstanding freedom of choice for customers and partners. The two new Escala IL models, the Escala IL400R (4-way server) and the Escala IL1600 (16-way server), offer 1- to 16-way multiprocessing capability and a choice of operating systems.
About Bull
Bull is an international IT Group with customers in more than 100 countries. In 2000, the company earned revenues of 3.244 billion euros. Bull's strategy is focused on secure Internet Infrastructures and Services dedicated to helping customers transform their processes and IT infrastructure in order to take full advantage of the net.economy. The group is organized in two major autonomous units: Integris, a pan-European IT services company that provides consulting, systems integration and managed services with a strong focus on Telcos, Internet solutions and outsourcing; and Bull Infrastructure & Systems, which uses its technology expertise, unique in Europe, to deliver internet-ready systems and net infrastructure solutions with guaranteed levels of performance, scalability and availability. For more information please visit http://www.bull.com.
About Roxen Internet Software
Roxen Internet Software develops and markets next-generation software platforms for the building and maintenance of dynamic Web sites. The product is a suite of tightly integrated tools for collaborative Web site publishing, administration, maintenance, production and application development. The unique technology base of Roxen IS is broad enough to define Web Content Management as including support for Web site development and the support of any client, including wireless clients, and all types of complex web services, including ASPs. Roxen IS has sales headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, R&D in Linkoeping, Sweden, and sales offices in San Jose, USA, London, UK and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The company has received numerous awards, among them "Best of Comdex". For more information please visit http://www.roxen.com.
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