Provision Networks and Softricity Announce Technology Alliance Partnership

The Two Companies Will Collaborate on Technology Development and Marketing Initiatives


November 9th, 2005 – THINcity - Arlington, VA – Provision Networks® and Softricity® announced today that the two companies have formed a strategic alliance, delivering best-of-breed application access and virtualization to partners and clients worldwide.

Provision Networks, a global provider of access infrastructure solutions for the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Terminal Server platform, and Softricity, the leader in application virtualization, are collaborating on both the technology as well as the marketing fronts.

The Provision Management Framework features seamless integration with the SoftGrid platform, enabling organizations to transform Softricity virtualized applications into published resources accessible using the Provision-IT module for Windows Terminal Services. With Softricity ZeroTouch™, the combined solution will allow for intelligent application deployment and execution, determining whether an application should be delivered to the client PC for local execution or launched through a terminal server. End-users will have a consistent users experience since the combined solution enables applications launched through terminal server to look like locally-executing applications through the use of Provision Networks’ seamless window technology.

“As a satisfied enterprise client of both technologies, we welcome the close alliance Provision Networks and Softricity are forming,” commented David Herr, Director of IT with Asbury Services.

The alliance partnership will deliver marketing collaboration between the two companies, the development of joint sales engagements, and cooperative support mechanisms. The two companies will also work on further integrations between their two product lines.

“We are excited to be working with Softricity,” said John Brennan, VP of Corporate Strategy for Provision Networks. “Our joint value proposition to customers and partners is simple but quite compelling – two best-of-breed technologies, fully interoperable, that provide intelligent application access regardless of location.”

“The Provision Networks product is exactly what many of our customers are looking for to complement their Softricity ZeroTouch deployments,” said Les Yetton, VP of Business Development, Softricity.

Paul Ghostine, CEO of Emergent OnLine, a Provision Networks Certified Solutions Advisor and Softricity Certified Consulting Partner, added that “this is a powerful alliance that will find wide acceptance among customers and partners. We are already packaging both technologies as a single compelling solution.”


About Softricity

Softricity enables software to be as instantly available and as easy to use as electricity by transforming applications into network services that no longer need to be installed. The Softricity Desktop provides a software environment that can be securely deployed, managed and immediately available anywhere in the world at a fraction of traditional IT investments – while dramatically improving business agility and delivering a superior end-user experience. Powered by the SoftGrid® Platform & Softricity ZeroTouch™, The Softricity Desktop employs the company's patented application virtualization, intelligent on-demand delivery and policy-based management technologies to save enterprises over 80% in application management costs, 30% in help desk costs and realize a four-fold increase in user up-time. Global customers include AIG, Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City, Northeastern University, Prudential, Raytheon, sanofi-aventis and Suncor Energy. Softricity is a partner with Microsoft (Gold Certified), IBM, HP and VMware. For more information, visit http://www.softricity.com.


About Provision Networks

Provision Networks is a global provider of access infrastructure provisioning, management, optimization and security. Provision Networks solutions embrace and extend the Microsoft Windows 2003 Terminal Services platform, delivering resilient and scalable on-demand access for enterprises worldwide.

The Provision Management Framework (PMF), Enterprise Edition is a full-featured access infrastructure solution that leverages the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform, and delivers anywhere, anytime access to applications and network resources. Enterprise features such as Seamless Windows, Application Publishing, Load Balancing, Access Control, a Web Portal and an SSL Gateway embrace the RDP protocol and enhance the deployment, manageability, performance, and security of Terminal Services environments of all sizes.

With a world-class client list, comprised of some of the world’s largest commercial enterprises, and government organizations, Provision Networks is the most trusted name in access infrastructure management, security, and optimization.

To learn more about Provision Networks and our enterprise access solutions, please visit us at www.ProvisionNetworks.com

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