CAMBERLEY, SURREY, OCTOBER 5th 2009 – Today, RES Software is celebrating its ten-year anniversary. Since it was established in 1999, the Dutch company has grown to become market leader in the field of user workspace management. More than 2,500 companies worldwide are already making use of RES Software solutions so that they are able to manage desktops and infrastructure while delivering a personalised, secure and reliable workspace. The work environment is built up dynamically, based on the end-user’s context, so that the right applications, data and settings are always available. Over the years, more than a million personalised work environments have been built and maintained. Satisfied end-users enjoy optimal support in their daily work, systems and desktop administrators save a huge amount of time and effort and the IT-department can simply keep on delivering and managing personalised desktops.

“Having used RES Software for 10 years now, every new release still makes me happy as they make the job of an IT professional easier and more fun! Every new release surprises me as the products open up even more possibilities. At Trespa, we work on high level IT that costs little and offers great flexibility. After 10 years, I can safely say that RES Software has made an enormous contribution to our motto: 'lean and agile ICT', stated Guillaume Frenken, Head of ICT, Trespa International, BV.

From start-up company to market leader
RES Software has, in the past few years, developed from a start-up company into market leader in the field of user workspace management. Below is a rundown of the most important milestones reached during the company’s history:

1999 – Foundation of RES Software; RES PowerFuse, user workspace management, was the first product to be brought onto the market
2001 - Opening of first office in the USA
2003 – Expansion from Citrix to traditional desktop and laptop environments
2004 - Start of the development of RES Wisdom, the run book automation solutions
2005 – More than 200,000 RES PowerFuse licenses sold. Introduction of RES Wisdom. RES Software becomes a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
2007 - More than 100% growth in turnover, expansion to the UK, more than 435,000 RES PowerFuse and over 60,000 RES Wisdom licenses sold.
2008 – Introduction of the free RES PowerFuse Express Edition and expansion to VMware desktops
2009 – Capital injection of $12.5 million by investment company Updata in order to stimulate international growth.

“The past ten years have gone by incredibly quickly”, says CTO and co-founder of RES Software, Bob Janssen. “What started as an innovative idea to focus on the end-user and make IT more flexible has grown into a successful international business. The IT landscape will continue to change; new technologies such as cloud computing and desktop virtualisation are on the rise and are set to have a huge impact on the business world. In the next ten years we shall continue to make sure that RES Software solutions enable our customers to fully profit from the possibilities these new technologies offer, without sacrificing simplicity, productivity, flexibility or user-friendliness.”

About RES Software
RES Software is the leader in enterprise Workspace Management Software. RES PowerFuse and RES Wisdom products have been used by over 2,500 customers with over 800,000 licenses sold. RES Software is based in Den Bosch, Netherlands, with eight additional office locations in Europe, as well as the U.S. RES sells exclusively through its channel partners around the world. For more information about RES Software, please visit http://www.ressoftware.com.

Press Contacts:
Jane Rimmer Grant Tiller
hiviz-marketing RES Software
07710 633488 grant.tiller@ressoftware.com
jane@hiviz-marketing.com

Further Information

Goode International
Claire Chapman
Account Executive
Tel: +44 (0) 1491 873323
Email: claire.chapman@goode.co.uk