McAfee Introduces Remote Desktop 32; Industry's First and Only Remote Windowing Technology for 32-bit PCS; McAfee Acquires Technology From Austria's Johannes Kepler University, Establishes Advanced Windows NT Research Facility

Business Wire, July 16, 1996

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1996--McAfee (Nasdaq: MCAF) today announced it has acquired the world's first and only 32-bit Remote Windowing technology for Windows NT and Windows 95. The technology was developed by Dr. Gerhard Eschelbeck, a world-renowned computer scientist at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. Remote Windowing software allows client workstations to remotely execute applications residing on a host computer. McAfee purchased the technology from Interactive Distributed Systems GmbH, a company spun out from the University to market Remote Desktop 32, the first commercial implementation of this exciting technology.

Concurrent with the acquisition, McAfee announced today that Dr. Eschelbeck has been named Managing Director of McAfee's newly opened Window NT research facility, the McAfee Development Center (MDC). The MDC, which is located in Linz, Austria, will further development of the core Remote Windowing technology originally developed by Dr. Eschelbeck and his team. The MDC will maintain close ties with the University's talented researchers.

Under the terms of McAfee's acquisition agreement, McAfee has made a sizable endowment to the University's computer networking department, which will fund future McAfee-sponsored research into advanced Windows NT network administration technologies. McAfee will account for the acquisition as a purchase.

"Remote Desktop 32 sets a new performance standard for the remote administration of 32-bit PC clients and servers," said Bill Larson, McAfee's president, chairman, and CEO. "This acquisition puts McAfee significantly ahead of traditional remote control technology."

"I'm pleased to be joining with McAfee to further our research into advanced Windows NT communications technologies," said Dr. Eschelbeck. "McAfee's backing will enable us to create an exciting new family of Windows NT administration products that extend the core technology developed at Johannes Kepler University."

Since first posting evaluation versions of Remote Desktop 32 on their Web site, Johannes Kepler University has received a tremendous response from the international Windows NT user community. Over 100,000 copies of Remote Desktop 32 have been downloaded for free evaluation and 20,000 commercial licenses have been sold. Remote Desktop 32 is especially popular in large corporations, where the customer roster includes such international names as Toys 'R Us, Ciba Geigy, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Allstate Insurance, Digital Equipment, and many others.

Native Windowing for Windows NT and Windows 95 Desktops

Remote Desktop 32 allows network administrators to remotely manage distributed 32-bit Windows NT and Windows 95 systems. While traditional remote control products rely on external software for their remote administration capabilities, Remote Desktop 32 leverages the 32-bit operating system services of Windows NT and Windows 95 to provide native protocol support for TCP/IP and ISDN; native security; and asynchronous RAS (remote access services) for native communications over LANs, WANs, asynchronous phone lines, the Internet.

By relying on native operating system services, Remote Desktop 32 provides dramatically higher performance and compatibility than traditional remote control products. Unlike traditional remote control products which must transfer actual images across the communications line, Remote Desktop 32 leverages native operating system services to reproduce images without a lengthy file transfer.

Remote Desktop 32 is also significantly easier to maintain than legacy remote control products, which require users and vendors to constantly update the software's modem strings to support new modems. Remote Desktop 32's leading-edge technology obviates the need for modem string updates by operating above the TCP/IP stack.

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