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Genie9, October 17 - 2004 - Genie9 software,
developer of novel backup and security solutions, today announced an agreement to
license DVD authoring technology from Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC), the world's
leading supplier of authoring systems for DVD-Video production. The technology that
Genie9 has licensed from Sonic will serve to strengthen Genie9 products'
by enhancing its capability to backup to optical media.
Under the terms of the agreement, Genie9 will license Sonic's industry leading
AuthorScriptT formatting engine to be integrated into the company's main backup
solution Genie Backup Manager Pro for the month of October, and with other Genie9
software titles and future releases in months to come.
"DVDs are quickly becoming one of the leading used storage media for backup purposes,
with that in mind, Genie9 needed to offer its software users impeccable backup
solutions that support all CD/DVD media formats with flawless performance," said
Taleb Hammad, Senior Vise President at Genie9. He added "That is where Sonic
Solutions comes in. They are the leaders in authoring systems and their superior
AuthorScript engine will ensure that our customers will have the best backup to
optical media experience."
The new engine will among other things add Unicode filename support and support
for dual layer DVD burners to Genie9's optical media handling.
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