Qarbon.com and SuSE Inc. Debut The Linux Viewlet Project
Mar 7th, 23:57 UTC
SuSE Becomes First Linux Distribution To Support Qarbon.com's
Linux Viewlet Technology
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA--March 7, 2000--Today, Qarbon.com, the originator of
"Viewlets," and SuSE Inc., a leading international Linux company, launched
Qarbon.com's "The Linux Viewlet Project" (www.teach2earn.com/linux/). The
project is designed to provide millions of Linux developers and users with
a database of free Viewlets addressing the widest possible range of Linux
questions. SuSE (www.suse.com) is the first Linux distribution to support
Viewlets.
Viewlets are a Web innovation that changes help files and FAQs into vivid
and dramatic "How To" demonstrations that "show" rather than "tell" a user
how to perform a specific computing task. Demonstrative Viewlet windows
will answer thousands of end-user questions that are difficult and costly
for commercial distributors to answer.
"We are very pleased to be the first Linux distributor to support this
project for our users and the Linux community in general," said Chris
Simmons, vice president of marketing at SuSE. "The Linux Viewlet Project
will be a great help to all Linux users."
The first SuSE Viewlets are available today at Qarbon.com's Web site.
Qarbon.com CEO and founder of The Linux Viewlet Project, John Marshall,
said, "Many people are new to Linux, as I was a year ago. The bulk of Linux
documentation on-line is of excellent quality. Unfortunately, it rarely
covers the new graphical tools that SuSE and other distributions ship.
Viewlets are the perfect way to explain these graphical applications - why
not use a visual tool to describe a visual tool? Viewlets can finally
*show* the curious that Linux is not only powerful and stable, but also
easy to configure and maintain - with visual tutorials provided right
through their browser window. We are creating the Linux Viewlet Project as
a way to ensure that the entire Linux community has access to this kind of
visual tutorial."
The Linux Viewlet Project invites the entire Linux community to create
Viewlets that will be added to the project's repository. Linux Viewlets are
freely available to any Web site that chooses to provide site visitors with
the new technology.
Qarbon.com is built on a syndication business model that establishes Qarbon
as a Viewlet infomediary, inviting webmasters to freely place Viewlets on
their sites and encouraging individuals to create a wide variety of
Viewlets with the company's free tool. Web sites playing Viewlets and
authors of Viewlets participate in an advertising-based revenue sharing
opportunity. Qarbon.com shares revenue from the ad banner in a Viewlet with
the Viewlet author and the participating website.
About SuSE
SuSE Linux AG, with a workforce of over 300 people, is a leading
international Linux company. The company offers an extensive range of
qualified consulting and support services for using Linux in a business
environment, as well as commercial Linux software and complete Linux
systems. More than 50,000 business customers use SuSE Linux worldwide due
to its stability and high quality. SuSE has offices in Germany, the UK,
Czech Republic, the US and Italy. SuSE received top honors in the "Best
Linux Distribution" category at LinuxWorld Expo 2000 in New York. SuSE
contributes considerably to Linux development projects such as the Linux
kernel, glibc, XFree86(tm), KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus). More information is available
at http://www.suse.com.
About Qarbon.com
Qarbon.com, a privately held San Jose, California company, is the
originator of "Viewlets," an innovative Web application of advanced
technologies that change help and FAQs into live, vivid "How To"
demonstrations. Qarbon.com's all-encompassing business model includes a
free tool to build Viewlets, payments to developers and web sites for
creating and using Viewlets and new opportunities for online advertisers.
Viewlets provide the entire Internet community a service that can be
applied to virtually every web site from an enterprise giant to a simple
personal page. For more information contact Victoria De Alba at
650-344-4944 or vdealba@terpin.com.
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Agency Contact:
Victoria DeAlba
The Terpin Group
650-344-4944
vdealba@terpin.com
Company Contact:
Keith Borman
Qarbon.com
408-792-3800 ext224
kborman@qarbon.com
(Submitted by Victoria De Alba of The Terpin Group, New Media PR)
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