| Lycoris Desktop/LX on retail shelves at Fry's |
May 29, 2002
Redmond, WA -- (press release excerpt) -- In response to the needs of its customers, Lycoris has begun distribution in the retail space. Their flagship products, Desktop/LX Personal and Desktop/LX Deluxe, are now available at Fry's Electronics retailers. Desktop/LX has also enjoyed continued publicity with reviews in Forbes, The Washington Post and Personal Computer World among others. The next few months promise to be exciting, as Lycoris prepares to release Update 2 for its popular operating system and launch its ProductivityPak, a full office suite based on Open Office.
Desktop/LX was given 4 stars by Barry Shalliday of Britain's Personal Computer World, and Stephen Manes, writing for Forbes magazine, gives Desktop/LX the edge over Red Hat, stating, "Desktop/LX made it simple to access Windows systems on my network; Red Hat never managed that feat." With the continuing publicity, and more on the way, Lycoris is quickly establishing itself as a new player in the operating system software market.
The increasing sales of Desktop/LX have prompted Lycoris to bring on more staff to accommodate demand for fulfillment. Desktop/LX sales have already outpaced the cumulative first quarter numbers in the first two months of the second quarter.
As more end users make Desktop/LX their choice for desktop operating system, the Desktop/LX community grows in parallel. Lycoris has also had to increase the capacity and bandwidth for its Community Website , to accommodate for more Desktop/LX users.
With an eye on the future, Lycoris sees retail distribution as a key to wider acceptance of Desktop/LX as the new choice of desktop operating system. To that end, Lycoris has secured the first retail outlet to carry Desktop/LX, Fry's Electronics. With six stores in Northern California and seven stores in Southern California, four stores in Texas, two stores in Arizona, and one store in Oregon, coupled with a dedicated technology market focus, Fry's is a perfect match for Lycoris as it starts its retail exposure.
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