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"Along with its technology, Intraware has deep expertise in SaaS application management, and an impressive list of partners and customers, including a number of shared customers," said Mark Bishof, President and CEO of Acresso Software.  "Combining these with Acresso's financial and market strengths will greatly benefit Acresso's customers and Intraware's customers."

FlexNet Publisher has long-enabled licensing protection of software, while supporting flexible business models.  GuardIT for FlexNet Publisher provides out-of-the-box protection for the appropriate FlexNet Publisher libraries, so adding protection to software is now an automated process.  More information on GuardIT for FlexNet Publisher is available at www.flexerasoftware.com/products/flexnet-publisher.htm.

Used on more than 500 million Windows systems worldwide, InstallShield is a powerful developer tool that ensures applications are correctly installed, configured, and updated on desktops, servers, and mobile devices. InstallShield takes advantage of the latest Microsoft technologies, including Visual Studio 2008, MSI 4.5 beta, Windows Server 2008, .NET 3.5, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile 6.0, and IIS 7, saving developers time and reducing support costs.

Acresso Software provides solutions that help simplify the business relationship between software producers and enterprises. Acresso Software’s product line includes the FlexNet® and InstallShield® family of products that were previously offered by Macrovision Corporation.  These software products enable independent software vendors (ISV’s) to manage entitlements, software licensing, compliance, installation, and electronic software delivery.

For software producers, including those at hardware manufacturing companies, manual license management can prove not only daunting but damaging to their ROI. Producers   want to go to market with new and updated products quickly and efficiently, a goal that slows with manual licensing. And if a merger or acquisition is added to the mix, producers are faced with newly acquired products and disparate license technologies that manual efforts can't accurately or easily manage.

Software vendors have difficulty communicating with customers about their software once their products have been installed at the customer's site. With FlexNet Connect 6, software producers can meet this challenge and establish more valuable customer relationships by connecting directly with their customers through the software they sell.

Who: Macrovision Corporation

What: New version of FlexNet InstallShield 12 Express Edition.

With Express 12's support for the latest beta of Microsoft Windows Vista, Installation developers, application developers, and development managers of any skill level can create a professional installation experience as they "Get Ready for Vista."

Macrovision's "Get Ready for Vista" support includes the ability for an installation to specifically target hardware running the latest beta of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, maintain security via the new User Access Control functionality, minimize the frequency of reboots through the Restart Manager interface, and execute a set of validation tests to confirm that the installation is Windows Vista ready.

Global hardware and software organizations across all industries -- such as life sciences, manufacturing, electronics, healthcare and automotive -- are migrating towards a more software-centric business model to add value to and differentiate their products. By automating their licensing models, companies can benefit from electronic licensing, entitlement management and electronic updates. They can manage their business more effectively and respond faster to market change and customer requests.

"The launch of Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 is an extremely significant release in Windows development tools since it enables application development teams to improve speed to market and decrease development costs and development cycles," said Ian Knox, lead product manager of the .NET Developer Product Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp.

"Adobe outlined an extensive set of business and technology requirements for electronic license management, and the new FlexNet Publisher platform proved to be the most capable product in the market," said Drew McManus, Adobe's director of anti-piracy operations. "FlexNet Publisher enables Adobe to provide enterprise customers with a more effective means of managing their Adobe software licenses and monitoring usage throughout their organizations.

"We've distilled decades worth of experience into dramatic improvements in digital licensing enabling software vendors to automate all dimensions of the license lifecycle," said Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso. "As the de facto standard in Software Value Management, the FlexNet platform provides software producers and high-tech manufacturers and their customers to get the most out of their software investments."

The study was sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), Centralized Electronic Licensing User Group (CELUG), and Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), host and sponsor of the SoftSummit 2005 Conference being held this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The results of the study were officially unveiled during a keynote presentation today at SoftSummit by Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso.

The study's key findings include:

The event will feature the following keynotes:
Lars Rabbe, Chief Information Officer, Yahoo!
Dr. Peter Graf, Senior Vice President with Collaborative Solutions Group, SAP
Mark Kvamme, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Fred Amoroso, Chief Executive Officer, Macrovision Corporation

Other conference speakers include senior executives from leading analyst and consulting firms, high tech companies and industry organizations such as Accenture, AMD, Boston Consulting Group, Earthlink, Forrester, IBM, McKinsey, Microsoft, Motorola (Freescale), Sun Microsystems and Symantec.

"Software application licensing has eclipsed traditional server costs as the dominant portion of an IT budget, with the management and visibility of application license assets becoming increasingly critical to production grid computing deployments," said Peter Nichol, vice president, Electronics, Platform Computing. "Platform Computing and Macrovision's integration through FlexNet Connector is imperative to integrate FLEXenabled license assets with our workload management.

"The combined expertise of Zero G and Macrovision will provide software publishers and their customers with a seamless software installation experience across all platforms," stated Dan Stickel, EVP/GM, Software Technologies Group, Macrovision. "This acquisition further increases the market for our Software Value Management solutions, adds innovative technology and people to the company and enhances our multi-platform products."

According to a global software piracy study conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and International Data Corporation (IDC), 36 percent of the software installed on computers worldwide was pirated in 2003, representing nearly $29 billion of lost revenues for software publishers. The BSA maintains that unlicensed usage within the enterprise and B2B software markets is rampant, both internationally and in the U.S., where the piracy rate is estimated at 23 percent.