Supplier Benefits

System Suppliers

If you are a computer system manufacturer, the release of a new model with the accompanying operating system can be a major undertaking. You may have dozens of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), who need to port their software packages to your new system before it will be ready for volume sales to your customers. Yet it can be cost prohibitive to ship system prototypes or beta systems to every ISV.

Design Online can help you control and manage your costs. We do this by placing your new systems online and making them available on a secure, selective basis to your ISV community. Our Smart Device lab for Windows^® CE .NET is one example of the type of online evaluation and development that is possible through DesignOnline . We are able to support a wide variety of other operating systems, software, and computer system configurations. We can customize our online environment to provide controlled access to meet your development goals and the needs of your ISV community.

Our online services enable you to:

• Lower your inventory, shipping, and support costs
• Tightly control access to your beta or prototype systems
• Eliminate ISV problems with initial setup and configuration
• Ensure uniform deployment of hardware and software upgrades
• Receive regular activity reports and timely feedback

For further information, please contact Miguel Villon, Vice President of Sales, via email or telephone at (123) 456-7890.

Making such hardware platforms available online brings the millions of developers worldwide a giant step closer to the research and development labs of the globe's leading  technology powerhouses. Dr. Jerry Krasner, Executive Director of CMP's Electronic Forecasters