Linux in the news...

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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September 9, 1998

LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge
Corporation -- Personal Productivity Tools, Inc. (PPT) today
announced that version 3.0 of its EtherPage
client/server-to-pager messaging system is now running under
Linux, the UNIX clone operating system. 

EtherPage delivers messages rapidly and efficiently from
computer networks to wireless devices, including alphanumeric
and 2-way pagers and digital cellular phones. In addition to
Linux, EtherPage now runs under a broad range of operating
systems including Windows NT and UNIX. 

"This new port to the Linux operating system brings EtherPage
to a growing audience of individuals and IT managers who see this
innovative operating system as a very efficient option," said
David Coelho, founder and president of Personal Productivity
Tools. 

EtherPage is installed at more than 500 of the Fortune 1000
companies, and is used for a wide variety of applications including
help desks, network monitoring, industrial monitoring,
email-to-pager gateways, and web-to-pager gateways. It now
runs under Linux, AIX 4.x, BSD/OS 3.x, DEC Unix 4.x, DG-UX
4.11x, FreeBSD 2.2.x, HP-UX 9.x/10.x/11.x, Windows NT 4.x,
SCO Openserver and Unixware, SGI Irix 6.x, SunOS 4.x, Solaris
2.x, and Solaris/x86 2.x. 

Linux provides all of the features required in full-fledge UNIX,
including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, memory management and TCP/IP networking. 

Personal Productivity Tools, Inc. develops and markets tools
which enhance the productivity of corporate Intranets. The
company's flagship product is EtherPage, which allows users
anywhere on a computer network to send messages easily and
quickly to alphanumeric pagers. 

For more information visit the company web site at
www.ppt.com, or call 650/917-7000. 

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