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BW: Merlin Announces Agreement With Frank Kasper & Associates

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 1, 2000

“Merlin Software Technologies International Inc. (OTCBB- MLSW),
a leading provider of Linux based software applications, announced
today an agreement with Minnesota based Frank Kasper &
Associates (FKA), one of the world’s largest providers of CD-ROM
software. FKA will supply Merlin’s PerfectBACKUP+ Linux backup
and crash recovery software to its world-wide distribution
channel.”

“Founded September 1990, FKA is a worldwide distributor of
software and is considered the industry leader in the distribution
of Linux software and related products. FKA has been specializing
in providing the latest in Linux operating system software and
documentation to its customers since 1993. It currently places
Linux products on the shelves of more than 2,000 stores in the USA,
and in more than 60 countries throughout the world. Frank Kasper
& Associates is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many of the
top CD-ROM vendors rely on FKA to distribute their products,
including Voyager, Caldera (NASDAQ : CALD), Cyber Chef, DeLorme
Mapping, RedHat Software (NASDAQ:RHAT), Knowledge Media, Walnut
Creek, and others.”

“PerfectBACKUP+ for Linux is an extremely easy to use, fully
automated, backup software application for backing up Linux, Unix,
Windows and Macintosh computers for as low as $69. It is the most
economical, powerful network backup and crash recovery tool
available. It provides backup scheduling and remote backup,
recovery, encryption, robotics module, enhanced security and many
other features with both a graphical and character interface for
all major versions of Linux, including Caldera OpenLinux 2.3,
eDesktop 2.4, eServer 2.3, TurboLinux 4.0 and 6.0, versions 6.0 and
6.1 from RedHat, SuSE 6.0/1/2/3/, Debian 2.0, Mandrake 6.1, and the
latest Linux 1.0 release from Corel (NASDAQ:CORL).”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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