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For Immediate Release
World Wide Technology Announces Select Membership in Computer Associates' Award Winning Enterprise Solution Provider Program
St. Louis, Missouri-August 1, 2002 - World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) announced today that it has become a Computer Associates (CA) Enterprise Solution Provider (ESP) for CA's Brightstor and E-Trust product lines. As an ESP partner, WWT will be able to sell, integrate and provide support for CA's award winning storage and security products including Brightstor EB and Brightstor SRM as well as E-Trust access control and E-Trust Single sign on.
As an ESP partner, WWT and its affiliate company, Telcobuy.com LLC will be among a select set of resellers globally able to resell CA's high-end solutions. "We value our relationship with CA and are pleased to offer our customers world class storage and security solutions through our integrated procurement and logistics solution. Our flexible business processes coupled with our electronic capabilities make it easy for customers to specify, procure and manage their software purchases." said Bob Olwig, Telcobuy's Vice President of Strategic Alliances.
"We are very excited to have World Wide Technology as an ESP partner". said Bill Reini, CA's Senior Vice President of Channel Development. "WWT"s experience in integrating complex solutions, coupled with their wide range of IT partnerships will give our customers the highest level of service for their CA solution purchases." Reini also added, "WWT's sophisticated procurement system and TL9000 quality status add significant value to our customers project management and integration efforts".
About WWT
With headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), is the leading electronic procurement and logistics company in the information technology industry. WWT specializes in helping its customers to rapidly build and deploy their IT infrastructure in an on- time and cost-effective manner.
WWT's electronic Procurement and Logistics (e-PL) capabilities combine procurement services and logistics functions with state-of-the-art information systems technology, allowing partners to focus on core competencies, while maximizing supply chain efficiencies. Partners benefit from having WWT, a proven distribution and logistics company, manage their inventory while at the same time gaining anytime, anywhere access to WWT's web-based procurement applications and inventory management tools. For more information, please visit us at http://www.wwt.com.
About Computer Associates
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness. CA's world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure management, eTrust for security management, BrightStor for storage management, CleverPath for portal and business intelligence, AllFusion for application life cycle management, Advantage for data management and application development, and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology. Founded in 1976, CA serves organizations in more than 100 countries, including 99 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit http://ca.com.