Hyderabad: Neoware Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWRE), supplier of enterprise software, thin client appliances and related services and India's Parrus IT Solutions have entered into an alliance. The alliance strengthens Neoware's position as a global leader providing customers with more open, secure, reliable, affordable, and manageable computing solutions and expands its distribution, customer service, and software development capabilities to serve Indian customers.

Parrus IT Solutions will distribute and support Neoware's full-line of server-based computing products, including its thin clients, comprehensive enabling technologies, and customized solutions.

The Indian market for thin client solutions is expected to grow by 17.3 per cent this year, and 30.8 per cent by 2007, according to market research firm IDC. Additionally, Parrus will complement Neoware's global engineering resources in the United States, and throughout Europe.

Based in Bangalore, Parrus IT Solutions specialises in best-of-breed IT solutions, with a focus on thin clients and server-centric computing, software development and IT services, and software configuration management. The company's infrastructure spans all of India, with regional offices in Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai.

"Neoware is now the only dedicated company catering to thin clients that provides significant services, customisation, and support throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia," stated Michael Kantrowitz, Neoware's chairman and CEO. "Our alliance with Parrus will help enterprises in that market benefit from Neoware's solutions, customized and localized content, and the industry's largest and most skilled engineering team."

"We're pleased to align with the world leader in innovative server-based computing," says G.P. Singh, director of Parrus IT Solutions. "This is a key focus for us, because thin client interest is rapidly expanding in India. Businesses are quickly discovering how Neoware's solutions dramatically reduce the high costs of desktop and client-server architectures."

Neoware was recently ranked America's eighth fastest-growing company by Fortune magazine. Neoware's software products enable enterprises to gain control of their desktops, stream software on-demand, and to integrate mainframe, midrange, UNIX and Linux applications with Windows(r) environments and the Web.