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EMC Named 2012 Public Company of the Year by Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council

15th Annual Awards Event Celebrates the Depth and Breadth of the State’s Vibrant Technology Ecosystem

HOPKINTON, MASS , SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 - 

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced today that it has been named 2012 Publicly Traded Company of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC), the region’s leading technology association and the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policy leaders. Now in its 15th year, the annual Technology Leadership Awards program recognizes outstanding achievement across the Massachusetts vibrant technology community. 

The Company of the Year award was presented to EMC® last week during the 2012 MassTLC Awards gala in Boston. Jeff Nick, EMC’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, accepted the award on the company’s behalf.

The EMC selection was made by an esteemed judging panel comprising executives, investors, analysts, media and thought leaders from across Massachusetts. The judging committee reviewed all of the top- performing public companies headquartered in the region, taking into account a number of financial factors including revenue growth, operating profits measured by EBITDA, and market capitalization.

See all the 2012 winners at www.masstlc.org

MassTLC QUOTE:

Tom Hopcroft, President and CEO of MassTLC

“We’re thrilled to award a company of EMC’s caliber with the 2012 Company of the Year for publicly-traded companies. EMC’s IT industry market leadership is widely recognized not only in Massachusetts but also around the world. EMC stands as a clear example of outstanding and sustained achievement by the individuals and organizations in Massachusetts that are defining the future of the technology sector.” 

EMC EXECUTIVE QUOTE:

Jeff Nick, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMC

“On behalf of EMC and the more than 55,000 EMC employees worldwide, I’m honored to accept this award and be recognized by MassTLC, our executive peers, investors, analysts and media across the Massachusetts IT community. The IT industry is in the midst of an unprecedented wave of transformation and growth, and EMC is fortunate to be a leader in this shift.  Nowhere does that play out more prominently than right here in Massachusetts, with its thriving culture and history of innovation and technology achievement.”

ABOUT THE MASS TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, INC.

The Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) is the region’s leading technology association and the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policy leaders.  MassTLC’s purpose is to accelerate innovation by connecting people from across the technology landscape, providing access to industry-leading content and ideas and offering a platform for visibility for member companies and their interests.

With a membership of 500 companies and growing, MassTLC is a vibrant tech community that serves its members in a myriad of ways including:

• Organizing and running active cluster communities including Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Software Development, Energy, Healthcare, Robotics and Digital Games
• Hosting Boston’s most exciting annual tech event, the MassTLC Innovation unConference
• Shining the spotlight on leaders in tech with an Annual Awards Program
• Supporting workforce development where you need it most
• Connecting companies with policy leaders
• Celebrating the technologies and leaders of the region

For more information on MassTLC visit www.masstlc.org

ABOUT EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com

For Buckyballs Toys, Child Safety Is a Growing Issue

The following is an excerpt from an article in 

The New York Times
Friday, August 17, 2012

For Buckyballs Toys, Child Safety Is a Growing Issue

By ANDREW MARTIN

Three years ago, two pals from Brooklyn came up with the idea of creating a desktop toy out of powerful magnets. Their creation, Buckyballs, became an instant hit. And by this year, the two — Craig Zucker and Jake Bronstein — had expected annual sales to reach about $25 million.

But their business plan has hit a major, unanticipated snag.

Buckyballs are made from rare-earth elements, which makes them much more powerful than most magnets — and potentially more dangerous when ingested. Though the product is marketed to adults and festooned with warning labels, regulators have moved to stop sales because children keep swallowing Buckyballs and similar products made by others.

An administrative complaint filed last month by the Consumer Product Safety Commission seeks to require the company — officially called Maxfield & Oberton Holdings — to tell the public about the problem and offer customers a refund. The safety commission also asked 12 other manufacturers of rare-earth magnets to voluntarily recall their products and stop sales; 11 have complied.

Besides Buckyballs, Zen Magnets, a small company in Denver, refused. Last week, the safety commission filed an administrative complaint against Zen Magnets too.“The labeling, the warnings, the packaging does not work,” Scott Wolfson, spokesman for the safety agency, said of the products. “You have young children who come into a room and get their hands on a loose magnet or two.”

The action involving Buckyballs and Zen Magnets is unusual because the safety commission rarely files an administrative complaint, which is essentially a request for a mandatory recall. The last one, filed 11 years ago, was against Daisy Manufacturing, which makes BB guns. In Buckyballs’ case, a hearing will be scheduled before an administrative law judge, who will decide whether to grant the safety commission’s request.

In the meantime, Mr. Zucker has started an aggressive public campaign to win support for Buckyballs. Using the cheeky slogan “Save Our Balls,” his company has taken out newspaper ads in Washington, directed at President Obama and lawmakers, and stoked a campaign on social media Web sites like Facebook and Twitter.

In doing so, Mr. Zucker has found enthusiastic support from those who believe the Obama administration has pushed regulation too far.

For more, visit www.nytimes.com.

Nextiva Receives 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award

Press release:

Nextiva Receives 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award
Nextiva Office Recognized as Innovative VoIP Communications Tool

Scottsdale, Arizona August 15, 2012

Nextiva (www.nextiva.com), a leading provider of cloud-based business VoIP services, announced today that it is the recipient of TMC’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for the second year in a row.

TMC, a globally integrated media company, presents this award to products that facilitate voice, data and video communications, or a combination of them. Companies that receive the esteemed Product of the Year Award must exhibit a combination of vision, leadership and thoroughness.

“We are proud to distinguish the greatest achievements in the unprecedented growth of communications technologies in 2011,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC. “Nextiva has shown their dedication to quality and superiority while addressing the ever-changing marketplace demands.”

Nextiva Office delivers comprehensive phone systems to small and medium-sized businesses, including high-quality features such as advanced call routing, call manager dashboard, push to talk and Nextiva Anywhere. Nextiva provides an online portal so that business managers can quickly and easily access all of their service and usage information.

“We’re thrilled that our Nextiva Office product has been recognized as a Product of the Year for the second consecutive year,” says Yaniv Masjedi, VP at Nextiva. “We continuously enhance our products so that our customers always have access to the most innovative communications tools as well as a team of experts who provide Amazing Service and support all of our customers’ needs.”

2011 Product of the Year winners are announced on the websites for INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer Interaction Solutions.

For more information on Nextiva’s business communication solutions, please visit http://www.Nextiva.com.

ABOUT NEXTIVA
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nextiva is a privately held member of the Unitedweb family of companies. Nextiva is one of the country's leading providers of cloud-based, VoIP business communication services. Nextiva has won more than 30 Independent Technology & Telephony Awards, including the "Product of the Year Award" by Internet Telephony magazine for four years running. Nextiva delivers “Fortune 500” phone service at start-up prices and serves thousands of small-to-midsize companies across the United States. For more information call 800-983-4289 or visit http://www.nextiva.com.

About TMC
TMC is a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes the Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility and Cloud Computing (formerly InfoTECH Spotlight) magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4G Wireless Evolution; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Expo; SIP Tutorial 2.0:Bringing SIP to the Web; Business Video Expo; Regulatory 2.0 Workshop; DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; CVx; AstriCon; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more. Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Emulex to Continue Redesign of Products

Emulex to Continue Redesign of Products Impacting Five Percent of Net Revenues

Court Approves Continued Shipment of Impacted Products Worldwide

COSTA MESA, Calif., March 19, 2012 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX) today reported the continued implementation of design changes for products impacted by the issuance of an injunction for two patents by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in the lawsuit filed against Emulex by Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), based on U.S. revenues for sales of impacted products that were about five percent of Emulex’s net revenues for its second quarter of fiscal 2012. The injunction included a “sunset period” of 18 months for Emulex to continue selling impacted products in the US without design changes. Based on the jury assessment of royalties, and the terms of the injunction, Emulex estimates a charge of approximately $600,000 in liability for damages to Broadcom to its third quarter fiscal 2012 GAAP results. This amount is in addition to the $387,922 in liability previously reported by Emulex for that patent during the first quarter of 2012.

For its second fiscal quarter which ended on January 1, 2012, Emulex reported net revenues of $128.7 million, 76 percent (or $97.8 million) of which came from outside the US based on billed-to location. For the second fiscal quarter of fiscal 2012, the net revenues in the US for products impacted by issuance of the injunction were approximately $7 million. The design changes primarily focus on serializer/deserializer (SerDes) modules, which Emulex does not design but obtains from several suppliers, and which are included in impacted Emulex products. The impacted Emulex products include BE2, BE3, XE201, SOC 320, SOC 422 and SOC 442 ASICs, and products containing those ASICs.

“Emulex is dedicated to protecting the interest of its customers,” said Jim McCluney, the Chief Executive Officer of Emulex. “We have been working with our suppliers to implement design changes to the SerDes modules included in the impacted products.”

Broadcom had earlier asserted 12 different US patents against Emulex. Emulex presented a vigorous defense prior to the trial, and only 6 patents remained by the time of trial. After three weeks of trial, the court determined that one of the patents (7,058,150) had been infringed by Emulex, and the jury rendered an advisory verdict to the Court that it is not invalid, and awarded $387,922 in damages with respect to that patent. Subsequently, the judge determined that a second patent (7,471,691) had been infringed by Emulex. With respect to the remaining four patents, the jury found one not infringed and could not reach a unanimous verdict on the other three. Emulex intends to continue to vigorously defend its products, including a potential appeal.

About Emulex

Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The Company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, network interface cards, converged network adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. More information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.

Yazaki North America Selects PTC as Its Software Systems Solution for Electronic Instrumentation

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Yazaki North America Selects PTC as Its Software Systems Solution for Electronic Instrumentation

NEEDHAM, Mass., March 19, 2012 - PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced Yazaki North America, Inc., a Tier 1 automotive supplier, has selected PTC as the software systems platform for its electronic instrumentation. 

Software and electronics cost in a vehicle

In today's highly competitive automotive industry, software is quickly becoming an important differentiator as automobiles increasingly include advanced instrumentation and high-definition displays. The business research firm Frost and Sullivan estimates that cars will require 200 million to 300 million lines of software code in the near future. As a global supplier of vehicle power and data solutions, Yazaki recognized the increased significance and volume of software in its products and realized that the complexity of its product development processes could not be effectively managed with the current infrastructure.  The company recognized the value of a solution that enables global software development collaboration and code reuse.

"Yazaki chose PTC's Integrity software because it offers a single software engineering platform that can manage process complexity and support strategic quality, compliance, collaboration, and release readiness initiatives," said Larry Engelhardt, senior product manager electronics and instrumentation business unit, Yazaki North America. 

Integrity integrates well with Yazaki's other product lifecycle management applications.  Key to Yazaki's decision was PTC's commitment and certification of Integrity for developing safety related systems in ISO 26262 compliant development processes, an automotive safety mandate that requires safety-related embedded systems to qualify the tool chain being used to produce these systems. 

Continues Engelhardt, "Yazaki products depend on the quality of the software that drives them.  PTC's Integrity enables us to better manage the increasing complexities of electronic instrumentation. With this integrated approach we are able to quickly make better design decisions so we can rapidly deliver innovative new products to our automotive customers." 

"Yazaki is one of many automotive customers using Integrity as the platform for the collaborative integrated development of software systems," said Andrew Wertkin, chief technology officer, PTC. "PTC understands that successful management of embedded systems can provide a strategic business advantage for manufacturers. We look forward to working with Yazaki to drive greater value to its automotive OEM customers using this technology." 

Additional Resources

• Automotive business challenges (web site)
• PTC Integrity resource center (web site)
• PTC's Product Information Lifecycle Management (PLM) Resource Center(web site)
• Tech-Clarity Perspective: Developing Software-Intensive Products (Tech-Clarity Report)
• Embedded Software - The Future of Innovation in Tomorrow's Products(Aberdeen Research Report)
• Gartner Predicts 2012: Product Design and Life Cycle Management (Gartner Research Report) 

About Yazaki Yazaki Corporation is a global leader in the research, development and delivery of vehicle power and data solutions for vehicle applications. Yazaki produces electrical distribution systems, vehicle information products, solid-state power centers, connection systems and electronics. Worldwide, the company employs nearly 200,000 people in 39 countries. Yazaki has been committed to the preservation of the environment for over 70 years. The company continues this commitment today through the development of advanced electric components for hybrid electric vehicles, the promotion of recycling and the efficient use of resources. For more information about Yazaki North America, Inc. and its vision for a greener tomorrow, log onto www.yazaki-na.com. 

About PTC PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) enables manufacturers to achieve maximum value from their product strategies with software and services that optimize key business processes throughout the entire product lifecycle - from conception and design to sourcing and service. The company's integral solution portfolio unleashes product innovation, improves collaboration and ensures product data integrity within engineering and across the enterprise, supply chain and service partner networks. Founded in 1985, PTC employs nearly 6,000 professionals serving more than 27,000 customers worldwide.  More information can be found at www.ptc.com. 

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Infosys Bets Big on Innovation, Strengthens Product R&D Center

Infosys Bets Big on Innovation, Strengthens its Product Research & Development Center

1000-Strong Team to Drive Cutting-edge Engineering Innovation for Infosys Product & Platform offerings

Bangalore, India - March 15, 2012: Infosys today announced that it will grow its Product Research and Development Center in India to accelerate design and development of its offerings, through cutting-edge engineering innovation. The present team of 500 world-class engineers is expected to grow to 1,000 over the next two years.

The Center has a mandate to:

• Develop Products and Platforms to cater to next generation market needs driven by global mega trends, including digital consumers, emerging economies, new commerce and healthcare
• Create intellectual properties around Infosys Products and Platforms, leveraging technologies in the areas of cloud computing, mobility, analytics, and social media
• Pioneer unique approaches to accelerate innovation, enhance product architectures and shorten release cycles

The center has developed industry focused and cross industry offerings such as:

Supply Chain Performance Management Suite, an advanced analytical product suite that provides a single enterprise wide view of the Supply and Demand Chain performance to deliver deeper business insights that enhance collaborative decision-making and shorten cash-to-cash cycle. The product with self-service attributes, comes equipped with industry and function-specific dashboards (e.g. procurement, logistics, inventory) and pre-built business content in the form of Key Performance Indicators, metrics and data models.

Distributor Connect, a highly scalable distributor integration platform for retail and consumer goods businesses that connects multiple business partners and allows them to exchange, cleanse and harmonize raw data using advanced business logic and algorithms. Optimized on a parallel virtualized high-end cloud computing system, the integrated platform enables improved demand forecast, ensures on -time delivery and stock replenishment while reducing non-productive inventory.

Omni-Channel Personalization Engine, a product that enables businesses to enhance shopping experience for digital consumers by creating a close to in-store experience while they browse and shop online. The product utilizes the latest advances in machine learning algorithms, big data analytics and distributed file systems to process massive amounts of data around demographics, social opinion, peer purchase history and co-shopping. This intelligence helps businesses analyze, co-relate and better understand consumer behavior in a digital world and influence suggestive selling to drive business growth.

Subu Goparaju, Senior Vice President & Head of Infosys Labs and Product R&D, Infosys, said "Innovations in Social Media, Cloud, Mobility and Big Data are opening new doors for businesses globally. Led by engineering innovation, the Center is creating products and platforms that harness these opportunities and deliver long term competitive advantages to our clients."

Sanjay Purohit, Senior Vice President & Global Head of Products, Platforms and Solutions, said "Infosys' Products and Platforms are geared to drive innovation-led growth for our clients. Our investment in the Center brings together our deep industry knowledge and technical leadership to facilitate our clients’ journey to accelerate innovation and build their enterprises of tomorrow."

News Release from Oracle

Oracle and Taleo to Host Webcast

Redwood Shores, CA – February 23, 2012

Oracle and Taleo executives will provide more details on the business and product strategy for the proposed combination during a webcast presentation on Friday, February 24, at 8:00 a.m. PT. Participating in the webcast will be Mark Hurd, President of Oracle, Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Development, and Mike Gregoire, Chairman and CEO of Taleo.

Oracle and Taleo expect to deliver the most comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee careers following the close of the transaction.

More information on how to join the webcast can be found at http://www.oracle.com/taleo.

Trademarks Take On New Importance

Excerpt from an article in The New York Times
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Trademarks Take On New Importance in Internet Era 

By STEPHANIE STROM

PRINCETON, N.J. — As a serial snack-food entrepreneur, Warren Wilson is no stranger to the challenges of running a business.

In the early days of his first enterprise, selling funnel cakes at fairs, there was the time when, tired of losing money on inclement days, he bought weather insurance — and proceeded to lose even more money than he had when it rained. In the 1990s, he and his wife and business partner, Sara, once had to mortgage their house and sell off investments to make their company’s payroll.

But it still came as a bit of a shock when the Wilsons made what they thought was a routine move to register the trademark of their hot product — a flat pretzel snack called Pretzel Crisps — and it was contested by none other than Frito-Lay, the 800-pound gorilla of the snack food market owned by PepsiCo.

“This is so different from anything else we’ve faced because we’re not fighting a product in the supermarket, we’re not fighting against an institution like a bank, we’re not dealing with an act of nature,” Mr. Wilson said in an interview at his company’s headquarters here. “This fight is about a big company that wants to dominate the snack food category by crushing a little company like ours rather than by competing with us.”

Frito-Lay, whose Rold Gold pretzel products and Stacy’s Pita Chips compete with Pretzel Crisps, declined to discuss the case, citing the pending dispute with the Wilsons’ company, Princeton Vanguard.

But in its filings with the Patent and Trademark Office, Frito-Lay contends that Pretzel Crisps cannot be registered as a trademark because it is a generic term. “Like ‘milk chocolate bar,’ the combination of ‘pretzel’ and ‘crisp’ gains no meaning as a phrase over and above the generic meaning of its constituent terms,” the company wrote in a 2010 motion.

The dispute is still pending with the trademark office’s trial board.

America's Next Top Energy Innovator, Round 2

News release from the U.S. Department of Energy:

Secretary Chu Announces Second Round of “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” on One Year Anniversary of the White House Startup America Initiative

January 31, 2012 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the one year anniversary of the Obama Administration’s Startup America Initiative, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) is kicking off a second year of “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator,” a program that allows startup companies to license groundbreaking technologies developed by DOE’s 17 national laboratories for $1,000 and build successful businesses. As part of this effort, the Department reduces both the cost and paperwork requirements for startup companies to obtain an option agreement to license some of the 15,000 patents and patent applications held by the national laboratories.

The White House Startup America Initiative is a multiagency effort across the Obama Administration to promote high-growth entrepreneurship by expanding access to capital, cutting red tape, and accelerating innovation through agency action.  Additional information on the program’s one year anniversary and new steps the Obama Administration is taking to support job-creating small businesses is available HERE.

“America's future competitiveness depends on our ability to innovate and advance American products and businesses,” said Energy Secretary Chu. “Through America’s Next Top Energy Innovator, we are allowing brilliant ideas to fully develop and giving startup companies the opportunity to bring inventions from our national laboratories to the market.”

Under the previous round of America’s Next Top Energy Innovator, thirty-six companies in total signed option agreements with the national laboratories.  An online contest for the top picks is currently underway, where Americans can vote online for the most innovative and promising technologies supported by the program by visiting www.energy.gov/topinnovator. The top startup companies– based on the public vote and an expert review – will be invited to be featured at the premier annual gathering of clean energy investors and innovators around the country, the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit at the end of February.

Under the next round of the “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” program:

1.      Wednesday, February 1, 2011, the Department will kick off the second round of the competition.  Entrepreneurs and start-ups must identify the technology of interest and submit a business plan to be considered for the program. Participants will have until December 10, 2012 to make their submission to the laboratory.
2.      Any of the 15,000 unlicensed patents and patent applications held by the national laboratories will be available for licensing by startup companies.
3.      From February 1 to December 10, the Department will reduce the total upfront cost of licensing DOE patents in a specific technology to a $1,000 upfront fee for portfolios of up to three patents from a single laboratory. This represents a savings of $10,000 to $50,000 on average in upfront fees.
4.      Other license terms, such as equity and royalties, will be negotiated on a case by case basis and will typically be due once the company grows and achieves commercial sales. These fees help support the Department's continuing research activities to develop new technologies.
5.      The Department has simplified the option and licensing process and has established a standard set of terms for start-ups, who generally lack the resources, time or expertise to negotiate individual licensing agreements.
6.      In early 2013, the Department will give Americans the chance to vote online for the most innovative and promising technologies supported by the program.

Learn more about DOE’s America’s Next Top Energy Innovator program HERE. Learn more about the Obama Administration’s Startup America initiative HERE.

Dell OEM Partners with SUSE

News release from Dell:

Dell OEM Solutions Makes Available SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to Customers

SUSE is the First Linux Vendor to Join the Dell OEM Technology Partner Program

Date : 1/24/2012

Dell and SUSE today announced the Dell OEM Solutions division will offer customizable, integrated systems based on SUSE Linux Enterprise with services and support for customers worldwide. Now, Dell OEM Solutions customers can customize any Dell-standard hardware within its extensive portfolio and utilize the versatility, performance, reliability and security of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, helping reduce cost and time to market.

   Gartner conducted a primary research survey of 547 IT leaders in organizations (excluding technology and service providers) in 11 countries in the second half of 2010. More than half the organizations surveyed have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy, with nearly one-third citing benefits of flexibility, increased innovation, shorter development times and faster procurement processes. Lower total cost of ownership was a key driver.*

"Enterprises are increasingly using Linux in integrated systems, ranging from consumer electronics, to industrial control, aerospace and military technologies," said Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager, SUSE.

"This partnership marks another milestone in our ongoing relationship with Dell. It combines Dell's OEM product, industry standard hardware and global services capabilities, with SUSE's flexible, reliable and cost-effective operating system and tools, to meet the specific needs of the embedded and OEM markets."

Dell will use SUSE Studio, a powerful image customization and provisioning tool, to build and deploy application stacks based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server onto Dell OEM Solutions’ embedded, built-to-order and customized solutions. Using SUSE Studio, Dell can help its OEM customers reduce the complexity and overhead costs associated with bringing integrated systems to market.

“We are pleased to welcome SUSE as the first Linux vendor to the Dell OEM Technology Partner Program. By partnering with SUSE, we are broadening and strengthening our solutions for the embedded and OEM markets,” said Ron Pugh, executive director and general manager, Dell OEM Solutions, Americas. “Our customers that use Dell OEM Solutions with SUSE Enterprise Linux Server for product design can help accelerate their time to market and cut operational costs.”

More information about the Dell OEM and SUSE partnership can be found on the Dell OEM Technology Partner website.

* Gartner, Inc., Survey Analysis: Overview of Preferences and Practices in the Adoption and Usage of Open-Source Software, Laurie F. Wurster, Bob Igou, Zeynep Babat, January 24, 2011