HELIOS News 10 February, 2003

HELIOS LanTest 3.1 now available for Mac OS X

Garbsen, Germany -- February 10, 2003 -- HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading developer of network and prepress server solutions, announced the release of HELIOS LanTest for Mac OS X. Used widely throughout the networking industry as a standard testing, diagnostic and benchmarking tool, HELIOS LanTest helps users determine network server volume and local hard disk performance.

HELIOS LanTest testing includes:

• Create, open, and delete files
• Write/Read throughput test
• File locking performance
• Printing and spooling performance testing
• Single user and multi-user server testing

HELIOS LanTest is used by many vendors and users for:

• Network switch throughput testing
• Local hard disk throughput and reliability testing
• Macintosh hardware burn-in and reliability testing

HELIOS LanTest 3.1 is completely Mac OS X native including support for Apple's Mac OS X Aqua interface. LanTest is also fully compatible with OS 9 clients. It can test any AFP-compatible file server or a local hard disk and can be controlled via AppleScript.

"The success of our LanTest application relies on the fact that it is very easy to use. Every user can use LanTest immediately with just a few clicks," stated Helmut Tschemernjak, president of HELIOS Software GmbH. "LanTest scales very well from single user tests, up to complete multi-user server and network performance benchmarking. LanTest is used as well for hardware reliability testing."

Click here to go to the HELIOS LanTest product page.

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HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Computer Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, and Linux on Pentium based systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients.

Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third party archive, asset management and workflow solutions. HELIOS software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry.

For U.S. Sales:
European MikroGraf Corp.: 916-923-3520; E-mail: sales (at) ugraf.com; www.ugraf.com

Editorial contact:

Germany
Helmut Tschemernjak, HELIOS Software GmbH, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany; Tel +49-5131-709320 Fax +49 5131-709325;
E-mail: mktg (at) helios.de; Internet: www.helios.com

U.S.A.
Thomas Hallinan, HELIOS Software GmbH, 209-827-2760, mktg (at) helios.de
Bill Gram-Reefer, WORLDVIEW, 925-215-8463, reefer (at) worldviewpr.com