HELIOS News 29 August, 2006

HELIOS ships Server Solutions for Intel-based Macs

Hannover, Germany -- August 29th, 2006 -- HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading provider of enterprise and prepress server solutions, today announced that all six HELIOS UB server solutions are immediately available for Apple’s new quad-core 64-bit Intel Xeon Mac Pro and Xserve. 

“HELIOS is able to utilize the power of all four CPUs of the new Mac Intel computers to provide extremely fast job performance while offering an excellent price/performance value,” said Helmut Tschemernjak, President of HELIOS Software GmbH. “HELIOS Unbreakable Server Solutions represent over 15 years of server development and, in combination with Apple’s new Mac Pro & Xserve, provide a perfect server combination to our customers.”

"The newly designed Mac Pro and Xserve deliver quad-Xeon performance, greater expansion and unprecedented customization to fit the wish lists of the most demanding user,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're delighted HELIOS has taken advantage of the innovative architecture and blazing speed of the Mac Pro and Xserve to deliver powerful server solutions.”

HELIOS server solutions offer the highest-performance, cross-platform servers for Mac, Windows and Web clients. HELIOS products deliver server-based automated image conversion and ICC color transformation, as well as OPI image replacement and printing, PDF generation, PDF preflight, PDF printing, and PDF-native OPI for InDesign users. The HELIOS UB product family includes HELIOS EtherShare UB, PCShare UB, WebShare UB, ImageServer UB, PDF HandShake UB and PrintPreview UB, which now run natively on Intel-based Macs.

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HELIOS UB Unbreakable Server Solutions deliver mission critical server solutions to enterprise, government, university, and prepress sites. WebShare, EtherShare, and PCShare provide integrated cross-platform networking for Mac, Windows and Web clients, with advanced file and print server services, and easy remote server administration. HELIOS ImageServer, PDF HandShake and PrintPreview bring high efficiency and advanced capabilities to design, prepress and printing operations.

HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Windows systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Mac, Windows, Web 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.

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, 925-459-8537, reefer (at) worldviewpr.com