Skyscape.Com And Palmgear.Com Form Key Alliance
SKYSCAPE.COM AND PALMGEAR.COM FORM KEY ALLIANCE
PalmGear.com to resell Skyscape's medical solutions for Palm OS® Platforms
Hudson, MA, and Arlington, TX September 12, 2000 - Skyscape.com, an innovative leader in providing hand-held wireless software solutions for the medical community, www.skyscape.com, announced today an alliance with PalmGear.com, the Internet's most popular Palm Web site. The agreement allows PalmGear.com to resell Skyscape's extended portfolio of 'gold-standard' medical reference works on their Web site, www.palmgear.com
"PalmGear.com has a strong brand identity as the one-stop source for medical practitioners seeking software for their Palm based organizers. As medical practitioners using Palm organizers grows exponentially, our partnership has also entered a new phase", said RJ Mathew, VP of Marketing and Business Development for Skyscape. "Both companies will collaborate closely on marketing initiatives to bring Skyscape's portfolio of medical reference titles to tens of thousands of medical practitioners."
Kenny West, President of PalmGear.com commented, "Aligning with Skyscape gives both companies a tremendous advantage in the hand-held marketplace with PalmGear.com now offering exceptional medical reference titles and Skyscape poised to capture greater marketshare by serving the growing needs of mobile medical professionals. As a Company committed to the Palm OS Platform, we are pleased to add Skyscape's medical solutions to our growing portfolio of software titles."
Skyscape currently distributes the most comprehensive portfolio of medical reference works for Palm™ and Windows CE® platforms including Apothecarium™, a drug information and interaction analyzer; LexiDrugs™, a comprehensive drug information handbook; and IDBook™, a disease-specific guide providing information on infectious disease syndromes.
About Skyscape
Skyscape.com (formerly K2 Consultants, Inc.) is an eHealth company developing hand-held wireless solutions for the medical community. Skyscape utilizes its ART™ technology to rapidly develop products that enable practitioners to enhance the quality of patient care and streamline administrative processes. ART™ allows seamless integration of diverse sources of information in an easy to use interface, and is available on multiple platforms. Skyscape's products are currently an essential resource for thousands of medical professionals including users at leading institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners Health System, Duke University, Mayo Clinic, and the New York School of Dentistry. Skyscape products are available on multiple platforms including PalmPilot and WinCE. The Company is located in Hudson, MA. For more information, visit www.skyscape.com
About PalmGear.com
PalmGear.com, a privately owned company, is the leading Internet source for PalmOS software, hardware, accessories, news and information. PalmGear.com is an award winning web portal and e-commerce site, having collected awards from or been featured in PC Magazine (www.pcmagazine.com), ZDNet (www.zdnet.com), Netscape (www.netscape.com), Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com), Wired Magazine (www.wired.com) and many others. PalmGear.com provides the web's most successful portal for bringing shareware developers and users together to promote the PalmOS community. PalmGear.com is a development partner of Palm Computing (www.palm.com), and markets its own line of accessories and software for the PalmOS platform.
APOTHECARIUM™ is a trademark of Skyscape.com.
PALM® and Palm OS® are trademarks of Palm, Inc. Windows CE® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. PDR® is a trademark of Medical Economics.