SANTA ANA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Procom Technology a leading manufacturer of server appliances and pioneer in the development of network attached storage (NAS) technology, today announced that it intends to distribute its implementation of the NetBEUI (Network Basic Extended User Interface) stack to the Linux community.

The NetBEUI stack comprises a significant body of code and several man-years of effort, and will be posted with the instructions and tools necessary for integration with Samba. Forthcoming Procom NAS appliances will incorporate the NetBEUI stack to provide plug and play Windows networking.

NetBEUI is a Windows networking protocol that provides simple peer-to-peer networking, and is commonly employed in the small and medium-size local area networks (LANs) that are so prevalent in Remote Office / Business Office (ROBO) workgroup environments.

“This is our way of giving back to the community whose technology serves as the foundation for our NAS technology,” said Alex Razmjoo, Procom's President and CEO. The NetBEUI stack will be made available on Procom's Web site by February-end, 2000.

About Procom Technology

Procom Technology is a pioneer in the development of Network Attached Storage (NAS) products and technology. The company leveraged its position as market-share leader in CD/DVD-ROM networking to lead the way in developing disk drive-based NAS solutions for enterprise, workgroup, ISP and e-business applications. Procom appliances feature proprietary embedded software for seamless integration of NAS into all major networking environments. Technological breakthroughs include a plug-and-play protected data appliance for workgroups, plus “virtual zero downtime” symmetric fault tolerant enterprise filers for non-stop e-business applications.

 
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