'One Computer for Every Student' Vision Nears Completion After Three Year Partnership Between Macedonia Ministry for the Information Society and NComputing

By Ncomputing, PRNE
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Republic of Macedonia Leads the World in Education Transformation

SKOPJE, Macedonia and REDWOOD CITY, California, June 7, 2010 - NComputing (ncomputing.com/), the world's largest and fastest
growing desktop virtualization company, today announced it has strengthened
its partnership with the Macedonian Ministry for the Information Society
(www.mio.gov.mk/?q=taxonomy/term/9). NComputing is to provide an
additional 60,000 virtual desktops for deployment in Macedonian schools. This
brings the total number of NComputing virtual desktops in Macedonian schools
to 200,000. The move further delivers against Macedonia's vision of providing
One Computer for Every Student.

As a result of the partnership between the Government of Macedonia and
NComputing, virtually every elementary and secondary school student in the
nation now has access to his or her own classroom computing device. This is
made possible by NComputing's multi-user virtual desktop software and
low-cost virtual PC terminals.

NComputing Chairman and CEO, Stephen Dukker, officially made the
announcement during his presentation to Eastern European ministers and
education leaders at the ICT in Education Leaders Conference in Ohrid,
Republic of Macedonia. As well as outlining the successful partnership
between NComputing and the Macedonian Ministry for the Information Society,
Dukker shared his vision of the worldwide impact and ongoing benefit of
desktop virtualization.

The One Computer for Every Student initiative is the largest and most
important education project undertaken in the 15-year history of the Republic
of Macedonia," said Ivo Ivanovsky, Minister of Information Society of the
Republic of Macedonia "Our goal is to build a knowledge-based economy in
which our entire workforce is educated in using information and communication
technology. By adopting NComputing's low-cost virtual PC technology,
Macedonia is taking the lead in providing computer-based education for school
children."

Said NComputing Chairman and CEO, Stephen Dukker, "Today's PCs are so
powerful that even low-end machines are often used at less than 5% of
capacity. NComputing takes the 95% unused capacity and transforms it into
computing power that is then given to people who otherwise would not have
access to a PC. This innovation not only delivers PC type environments at a
fraction of the cost, it also massively reduces maintenance and energy costs.
We are leading potentially the biggest revolution in PC availability and
economics in history; and are able to do this by partnering with visionaries
such as the Government of Macedonia."

About NComputing: NComputing, Inc. is the fastest growing desktop
virtualization company in the world with over 20 million daily users in 140
countries. The company's award-winning, patented technology lowers desktop
computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces both energy consumption
and e-waste. It is the perfect solution for leveraging the power and
potential of PCs and cloud computing. To learn more about NComputing, visit
NComputing.com (ncomputing.com/).

For further information contact: Paul Shlackman, Bond PR on behalf of NComputing: Paul at bondpr.com t +44(0)1628-560161.

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