Server Based Computing / Mobile Computing / Web Based Computing / Phone Computing / Wireless LAN / SAP / Document Management ThinPrint International Channel Conference in Berlin - a complete success Berlin, February 13, 2003 More than 100 visitors from 12 different countries came to the German capital to participate in the first ThinPrint International Channel Conference. The purpose of this event was to inform the ThinPrint Sales Channel about the company's future strategic orientation, to introduce product news, and to deepen participants' technical and commercial knowledge. Two all-day session tracks - sales and technical, each offered in both German and in English - gave visitors the opportunity to choose from a rich variety of informative commercial or technical presentations. In addition to the sessions, several demo points were available for demonstrations of practical scenarios with ThinPrint solutions. The event was rounded off with evening festivities; a city tour and a dinner in a select restaurant extending into the late hours were background for discussions with ThinPrint staff and exchange of ideas between channel partners. Carsten Mickeleit, Managing Director of ThinPrint GmbH, was enthusiastic about the event: "Our visitors' positive resonance about the Channel Conference shows that this kind of event is desired by and useful to our partners. The high number of participants and the happy feedback definitely ensure that the Channel Conference will in the future be a standard feature in our event calendar." The announcement of a list of innovations at this event made it clear that besides the ever increasing market for server based computing, ThinPrint, based on its newly released .print infrastructure, will also offer unique solutions for the mobile, web based, and phone computing arenas. For example, a new product was introduced for mobile computing: Roaming Printer Profiles allows mobile workers with notebooks or tablet PCs to print documents from any nearby printer when changing to a new network. A great solution which generates great interest, not least of all for the growing number of wireless LAN architectures. The announcement of a strategic partnership with Symbian, the consortium of leading mobile telephone manufacturers like Nokia and Sony-Ericsson aiming to establish a performant operating system for mobile phones, underscores the role phone computing will play in ThinPrint's future strategy. ThinPrint was the first Symbian Enterprise Partner and already today offers a client for the Symbian OS, which is supported by the Nokia mobile phone series 60 and 80; i.e., the only recently released model 7650. More excitement greeted the introduction of the .print COLD client for automatic, direct document archiving as well as information about ThinPrint printer support in SAP environments. In summary: the interesting mix of strategic news announcements and availability of in-depth product and process know-how guaranteed that the ThinPrint International Channel Conference was greeted enthusiastically by all participants, as the following examples of visitor comments show: "The Conference gave me the opportunity to discover the new technologies from ThinPrint in compact form. The ThinPrint spectrum is increasingly well rounded." Frank Reimann, Systematics Integrations GmbH, Germany "ThinPrint is a important product for our company because it fits very well to our product line, therefore I came here to learn more about the technology. Many of our customer set are strong in mobile computing and can use the new TP products well. That promises a very good year for our cooperation." Annabel Dacres-Dixon, Interquad Systems, Great Britain "We see the ICC as a broadened horizon, because here, we learned what all can be done with ThinPrint. We will definitely build on this cooperation." Frank Kreft, Büro Complett GmbH, Germany "We came to this event to learn about new ThinPrint products. Our aim is to be the first ThinPrint Distributor in France with whom new key markets can be addressed." Emmanuel Jeux, Risc Technologies, France Further information: ThinPrint GmbH Annett Kujus Alt.Moabit 73 D-10555 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0) 39 49 3 111 Fax: +49 (0) 39 49 3 199 E-Mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Internet: www.thinprint.com ThinPrint GmbH ThinPrint GmbH is the world's leading provider of software based solutions for optimal transmission of print jobs and information in server and web based environments and mobile and phone computing. With ThinPrint .print the company offers the ideal infrastructure for location independent information access. Regardless whether run with Terminal Services, web applications, or the smallest mobile end devices like cell phones and PDAs - ThinPrint .print always guarantees a high level of information availability from any location. Coming from the background of the company's years long experience, all ThinPrint .print software components are based on proven and patented technologies, like Driver Free Printing and Viewture technologies. The software solutions of the Berlin based company are marketed worldwide in more than 45 countries by renowned distributors and manufacturers. Strategic partnerships between ThinPrint GmbH and leading hardware manufacturers ensure that the advantages of ThinPrint .print are also available for use with the smallest terminals, print boxes, PDAs and mobile telephones.