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PARIS, May 27 /PRNewswire/ — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced that TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) has selected ReachView Technologies, an Alcatel-Lucent company, to deploy ibm Tivoli Netcool software into its network to deliver superior service and value to its customers while positioning the company for long-term growth. With this deployment, TELUS becomes Alcatel-Lucent’s 100th customer for the Netcool software.
This Next Generation Service Management project enables TELUS to further consolidate its service assurance architecture to better manage the customer experience. The enhanced capabilities directed to customer service management across national service offerings including data, IP, and voice, ultimately contribute to more rapid deployment of product offerings with greater reliability.
“TELUS is constantly seeking advantage from advances in network technology, reliability and cost effectiveness. We selected ReachView/Alcatel-Lucent as system integrator because of their demonstrated track record of supporting transitions to Netcool and knowledge of service assurance processes,” said Fraser Pajak, vice president National Network Assurance for TELUS. “We are leveraging the experience of their team to drive process improvements and expedite our implementation. The work performed by their engineers and consultants has been of consistently high quality.”
Alcatel-Lucent’s service assurance solution includes ibm Tivoli Netcool software, which monitors the reliability of service delivery to customers, tracking such key areas as network compatibility, proactively identifying and fixing problems before they happen, and allocating additional resources to meet sudden spikes in demand.
“Intense competition requires communications service providers to deliver faster service creation for an enhanced user experience, while stimulating revenue growth,” said Joao Perez, vice president of worldwide sales, Tivoli Software, IBM. “The 100th customer mark illustrates the strong momentum we have made in the service assurance software market, and the strength of our relationship with Alcatel-Lucent.”
According to independent analyst firm OSS Observer, one of the reasons ibm became the worldwide leader in telecommunications software revenue for the overall service assurance market in 2007 was IBM’s ability to “strengthen its NEM [network equipment manufacturer] channel, which is driving business related opportunities as a result of network upgrades in the broadband and IP segments of the market. Alcatel-Lucent is the largest channel to market in the telecommunications market.” (OSS Observer, “Service Assurance Market Overview” by Patrick Kelly, April 2008)
Alcatel-Lucent provides a full suite of consulting and engineering services to integrate this tool and others into a carrier or enterprise network.
“We are extremely pleased to have been selected by TELUS to support its Next Generation Service Management project.” said Jean-Pierre Gaillat, Alcatel-Lucent’s Vice President of global OSS/BSS and Software Integration Professional Services Practice. “Our solutions are tailored to match each operator’s operational and business process environment. Integrating a solution into an operator’s network, taking into consideration existing systems, service definitions and adapting to the carrier’s processes is a unique competency of the combined companies.”
Alcatel-Lucent completed its acquisition of ReachView on April 3, 2008.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.2 billion of annual revenue and 11.2 million customer connections including 5.6 million wireless subscribers, 4.4 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and alumni have contributed $113 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered more than 2.1 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Eight TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead our local philanthropic initiatives. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.
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ORLANDO, Fla., June 2 /PRNewswire/ — ComponentSource(R), a leading marketplace and community for reusable software components and development tools today announced the immediate availability of IBM(R) Rational Software products to their global developer audience.
ComponentSource and ibm have entered into an agreement that enables ComponentSource website users to easily download, evaluate, and purchase ibm Rational Software products. A developer can purchase and download an Electronic Software Download (ESD) version of the full retail product and within minutes receive the key codes and serial numbers necessary to fully license the product. Under the terms of the agreement, ComponentSource becomes an Authorized OEM Partner for ibm Rational Software products.
“We are very excited to have the ibm Rational Software portfolio of offerings available on the ComponentSource website. Our 900,000 users enjoy being able to download, evaluate or immediately purchase a licensed copy of the software 24/7. Organizations’ needs have changed dramatically over the recent years as they try to create more complex solutions on various technology platforms. The rapid adoption of the .NET framework for use in larger projects and inside larger organizations means that our customers need an integrated set of tools to help manage their complex projects through the complete development life-cycle. ibm helps clients gain intelligence from their software assets and increase global project efficiency and insight, through its open transparent approach to community development, and I know that the ibm Rational software offerings will help solve many of the issues that our customers are currently facing,” explained Sam Patterson, CEO, ComponentSource.
Patterson went on to say: “We have been evaluating sets of tools that not only offer individual solutions to our customers’ current needs, but that can also grow with the needs of our customers as they change and build into a fully integrated solution for all their software life-cycle needs, whether they be a small to medium sized team or widely dispersed enterprise group needing to collaborate. The Rational product range meets those needs today and we are confident that they will continue to do so in the future as those needs evolve.”
“ComponentSource has built a large loyal customer base inside small and medium enterprises around the world,” said Brett Hansen, director of general business and business partner marketing, ibm Rational Software. “The ibm Rational Software portfolio of offerings will help provide ComponentSource customers with solutions addressing the entire software development lifecycle including modeling and design, version control, testing, software release builds and application security analysis. As an organization’s needs change they will be able to collaborate together and work in a more efficient, integrated and collaborative manner using ibm Jazz-based technologies.”
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ComponentSource Global Audience and Customer Service

For more details on the global reach and audience at ComponentSource see:
* ComponentSource & ibm OEM Agreement for ibm Rational Software products
Under the terms of the OEM Agreement, ComponentSource can supply software licenses to their customers around the world, except in the following countries where ibm has existing exclusive relationships with locally based distributors including Middle East: Adu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar & Saudi Arabia; And Central America & the Caribbean: Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua & Panama.
About ComponentSource
ComponentSource is the world’s largest marketplace and community for reusable software components and development tools for all platforms. The respected barometer for the component industry, ComponentSource pioneered the open market for reusable software components in 1995, and continues to drive the market through its award-winning e-business model. A global e-business with 100,000 customers in over 160 countries, ComponentSource is headquartered in Atlanta, GA United States and has offices in Reading, England and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit or or call us in the US on: 1 (770) 250 6100 or in Europe on 44 118 958 1111 or in Asia/Pac on 81 3 3237 0281.
All company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.
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TROY, Mich, June 11 /PRNewswire/ — Altair Engineering announced today its leading on-demand computing software environment PBS Professional has achieved qualification for the Intel(R) Cluster Ready program. The validation of Altair’s PBS Professional as “Intel Cluster Ready” will provide customers a simplified system for easily managing compute clusters built with intel processor-based servers.
The intel Cluster Ready program makes it easier to design, build, sell, program, acquire and deploy clusters by specifying a common basis for clusters. This ensures an unprecedented level of interoperability between software and hardware components. By participating in the intel Cluster Ready program, Altair is proving its commitment to provide customers a unified cluster solution to reduce costs and increase productivity for clusters, grids and on-demand computing.
“Achieving intel Cluster Ready status is another example of Altair’s commitment to simplify the deployment of technology solutions for our customers,” said Michael Humphrey, Vice President of Partner Programs for Altair. “PBS Professional is an enabling technology that allows customers to maximize the utility of their hardware and software resources. Our participation in the intel Cluster Ready program confirms that PBS Professional is ready to run on clusters built with intel components.”
“Industry support for Intel(R) Cluster Ready continues to grow and intel welcomes Altair’s achievement,” said Bill Magro, director, High Performance Computing Solutions, intel Corporation Software and Solutions Group. “We’re excited Altair’s popular PBS Professional is demonstrated compatible as it simplifies the integration of intel Cluster Ready systems into grid and on-demand computing environments powered by Altair.”
About Altair
Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held with more than 1,300 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for enterprise analytics, product development, and advanced computing, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit .
PBS GridWorks provides a suite of on-demand, policy-based grid computing technologies that allows enterprise clients to maximize their ROI on computing infrastructure assets. As an industry leader in both commercial and open-source workload management solutions, PBS GridWorks is the most widely implemented software environment for grid-, cluster — and on-demand computing worldwide. The suite’s flagship product, PBS Professional, provides a flexible, on-demand computing environment that allows enterprises to easily share diverse (heterogeneous) computing resources across geographic boundaries.
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VANCOUVER, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Absolute(R) Software Corporation (”Absolute” or the “Company”) (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-based, patented, computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking(TM) solutions announced that it will present a webinar on June 11, 2008 featuring the first-hand laptop management and data breach prevention experiences of Allina Hospitals & Clinics. During the 60-minute event, speakers from Allina and computer manufacturer Lenovo will discuss best practices for managing laptops using the highly-regulated healthcare industry as an example.
Date: June 11, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Duration: 1 hour
To Register:

Topics covered will include how Allina Hospitals and Clinics:

- Saved more than $400,000 in a single quarter by reallocating its
Lenovo notebooks

- Recovered more than 75% of its stolen computers

- Remotely deleted sensitive information to enhance regulatory
compliance

- Inventoried more than 95% of its mobile computers using Computrace
embedded in the BIOS of its computers

Learning outcomes include:

- Gaps in current notebook security programs

- The importance of remote data delete and theft recovery
capabilities

- Common misconceptions about encryption on laptops

- How notebooks can be managed when off the LAN

- How Computrace works on Lenovo notebooks

Speaking Panel:

- Brad Myrvold, System’s Manager of Desktop Technology for Allina
Hospitals & Clinics

- Stacy Cannady, CISSP, Product Manager, Security, Lenovo

About Absolute Software

Absolute Software Corporation (TSX: ABT) is the leader in computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking(TM) solutions. Absolute Software provides organizations and consumers with solutions in the areas of regulatory compliance, data protection and theft recovery. The Company’s Computrace(R) software is embedded in the BIOS of computers by global leaders, including Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, General Dynamics Itronix, HP, Lenovo, Motion, Panasonic and Toshiba, and the Company has reselling partnerships with these OEMs and others, including Apple. For more information about Absolute Software and Computrace, visit .
Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, the expected performance of our services and products and other expectations, intentions and plans contained in this press release that are not historical fact. When used in this press release, the words “plan,”"expect,”"believe,” and similar expressions generally identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current expectations. They are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, changes in technology and general market conditions. In light of the many risks and uncertainties you should understand that we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements contained in this press release will be realized.
(C) 2008 Absolute Software Corporation. All rights reserved. Computrace
and Absolute are registered trademarks of Absolute Software
Corporation. Computrace U.S. patents # 5,715,174, # 5,764,892,
# 5,802,280, # 5,896,497, # 6,244,758, # 6,269,392,
# 6,300,863, and # 6,507,914. Canadian patents # 2,284,806 and
# 2,205,370. U.K. patents # EP793823 and # GB2338101. German
patent # 695 125 34.6-08. Australian patent # 699045. The Toronto
Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the
information contained in this news release.

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TROY, Mich., May 27 /PRNewswire/ — Altair Engineering, Inc., a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision-making, today announced a long term agreement with First Technology Safety Systems, Inc. (FTSS), the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of sophisticated crash test dummies and their virtual counterparts, to integrate and deliver FTSS crash dummy models with Altair’s RADIOSS crash analysis software. The unique agreement provides the foundation to jointly develop and deliver a highly integrated, accurate safety analysis solution, specifically tailored to meet the needs of the global crash analysis community.
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Under the agreement, Altair will have responsibility to market, sell, and provide first-line support for FTSS dummy models that are provided with RADIOSS. The agreement also outlines close collaboration between Altair and FTSS software development teams to harmonize RADIOSS with the FTSS virtual dummies to deliver a high quality, well-correlated safety analysis solution. FTSS dummy models will be directly supported in HyperWorks modeling and visualization products including HyperMesh and HyperView as well as HyperCrash, a highly tuned modeling environment for crash analysis and safety evaluation.
“Altair is firmly committed to delivering world class safety performance solutions,” says James R. Scapa, president and CEO of Altair Engineering. “As such, we recognize the importance of high fidelity dummy models deeply integrated with our core product set. This need is clearly best served through partnering, at both a business and technology development level, with the premier dummy manufacturer in the world.”
“FTSS is pleased to offer its high fidelity dummy models in the RADIOSS solution for our joint customers,” says Christopher J. O’Connor, president and CEO of FTSS. “We are proud to partner with a global leader in the field of computer Aided Engineering and Analysis, and confident that together we will deliver optimized CAE solutions in the field of occupant safety and crashworthiness.”
“High quality finite element dummy models are critical to the virtual safety design process,” says Djamal E Midoun, NAE unibody safety manager at Ford Motor Company. “I am glad to see a partnership between FTSS and Altair in developing such models, it will provide us with an important enabler to meet the increasingly demanding external as well as Ford internal requirements, with less time and fewer physical prototypes.”
About First Technology Safety Systems, Inc.
FTSS is the world’s leading provider of sophisticated crash test dummies and computer crash simulation models. Headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan USA, FTSS has been leading the innovation of crash test dummy design and manufacturing for over 40 years. FTSS products include a full range of infant, youth and adult dummies for automotive, military and aerospace applications. FTSS is also the leading provider of sophisticated computer finite element models for crash simulation analysis and integrated in-dummy, crash wall, trolley and pole data acquisition systems, known as iCrash(TM). For more information, please visit .
About Altair
Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held with more than 1,300 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for enterprise analytics, product development, and advanced computing, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit .

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VANCOUVER, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Absolute(R) Software Corporation (”Absolute” or the “Company”) (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-based, patented, computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking (TM) solutions today highlighted educational institutions using Computrace for comprehensive notebook computer management including: theft recovery, annual IT inventorying and budgeting, remote data delete and critical theft and tampering deterrence. Due to the importance of this solution for educational customers, Fujitsu recently announced a bundle of Computrace with Fujitsu notebooks designed for the education market.
“As publicly-funded institutions, a key objective for school districts using notebook and tablet computers is demonstrating accountability for the funds they spend buying and maintaining computer populations,” said John Livingston, Chairman and CEO of Absolute Software. “Computrace is uniquely able to assist school district IT personnel in many of their most time-consuming and inefficient processes. Seven of America’s top 15 school districts currently use Computrace to inventory computers, prevent theft and tampering and recover those computers that are lost or stolen. And, because Computrace is delivered as a service, it requires no additional expenditure on IT infrastructure like servers and IT staff. No other solution offers such comprehensive cost management and protection for school districts that are investing heavily in laptop computers for better results in the classroom.”
As a recommended management tool for new school computers, computer manufacturers are taking steps to make Computrace more accessible to their education customers. Fujitsu’s new education program includes a three-year Computrace subscription across a number of computer models. The bundle allows the manufacturer to pre-enable Computrace before it arrives on site at schools - so computers can be tracked right out of the box, saving time and money for school IT administrators. Other PC OEMs have also included the solution as a recommended product in their education segment sales and marketing materials.
Embedded in the BIOS of computers from the world’s leading computer manufacturers, Computrace is an affordable and effective computer security and IT asset management solution.(1) Computrace protects both PCs and Macs, providing reliable visibility into every computer in the district - leading to enhanced security, simplified inventorying and regulatory compliance. Should a computer go missing, the Absolute Theft Recovery Team uses information sent via Computrace to track the computer and engage local law enforcement to physically recover it and return it to the district’s staff.
By implementing Computrace across its entire 10,000 notebook and desktop population, Kent School District in Washington State has reduced its annual inventory process from a ten person, three-month project to running a five-minute report. “We used to have ten people with barcode scanners attempting to find 10,000 computers. At best, we were achieving 70-75% accuracy in this process - and at great effort. With Computrace, we always know where our computers are. What was once a three-month process is now accomplished by running a five-minute report that is more than 99% accurate. That is accountability,” Thuan Nguyen, Director of Information Technology, Kent School District.
Surrey School District, the largest school district in British Columbia, Canada, uses Computrace AbsoluteTrack across various platforms, including 6,000 PCs, 6,000 Apple desktop computers, and 800 notebook computers, to verify software license compliance, perform lifecycle management and execute and annual inventory. “AbsoluteTrack has been a great investment for our School District and saves us money in many ways: it helps keep us onside with software compliance regulations, thus preventing us from having to pay fines, and it has enabled us to automate processes that were labor-intensive and inefficient. I would strongly recommend AbsoluteTrack to any School District,” said Dan Turner, Director of Information Technology, Surrey School District.
Dysart Unified School District, the fastest growing district in Arizona, uses ComputraceComplete to manage and track over 3,000 computers, including the district’s fleet of notebooks. The district’s Director of Information Technology Evan Allred says, “We were impressed with our first experience working with Absolute’s recovery service. They literally looked after everything from the moment we let them know it was missing to the point where we could go pick it up at the Surprise (Arizona) Police Department. In the past, we wouldn’t have had a chance of recovering that laptop, but the sheer speed with which it was found in this case should be a major deterrent for would-be thieves.”
For more information on Absolute Software and its range of computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking(TM) solutions, please contact your district’s computer manufacturer, visit or .
(1) For a complete list of BIOS-supported computers visit
.

About Absolute Software

Absolute Software Corporation (TSX: ABT) is the leader in computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking(TM) solutions. Absolute Software provides organizations and consumers with solutions in the areas of regulatory compliance, data protection and theft recovery. The Company’s Computrace(R) software is embedded in the BIOS of computers by global leaders, including Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, General Dynamics Itronix, HP, Lenovo, Motion, Panasonic and Toshiba, and the Company has reselling partnerships with these OEMs and others, including Apple. For more information about Absolute Software and Computrace, visit .
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, the expected performance of our services and products, an increased rate of adoption of our products, and other expectations, intentions and plans contained in this press release that are not historical fact. When used in this press release, the words “plan,”"expect,”"believe,” and similar expressions generally identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current expectations. They are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, changes in technology and general market conditions. In light of the many risks and uncertainties you should understand that we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements contained in this press release will be realized.
(C)2008 Absolute Software Corporation. All rights reserved. Computrace and Absolute are registered trademarks of Absolute Software Corporation. Computrace U.S. patents # 5,715,174, # 5,764,892, # 5,802,280, # 5,896,497, # 6,244,758, # 6,269,392, # 6,300,863, and # 6,507,914. Canadian patents # 2,284,806 and # 2,205,370. U.K. patents # EP793823 and # GB2338101. German patent # 695 125 34.6-08. Australian patent # 699045. The Toronto Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained in this news release.
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