Thermo Electron Informatics Group Forms Global Life Science Alliance with Compaq

06-May-2002

WALTHAM, Mass. (May 3, 2002) – Thermo Electron Corporation announced that it has formed a global life sciences alliance with Compaq Computer Corporation through the company’s Thermo LabSystems informatics business. By equipping Compaq’s high- performance server products with Thermo’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) applications, both organizations will be able to further develop their presence in the life sciences sector through joint sales and marketing activities and other alliance initiatives.

“We are pleased to join organizations such as Oracle Corporation and LION Bioscience in enhancing Compaq’s considerable portfolio in life science discovery,” said Marc N. Casper, president of Thermo Electron’s Life and Laboratory Sciences sector. “These kinds of partnerships are a great way to expand the capabilities and reach of our technology, a key element of our growth strategy. And everybody wins – alliance members, who will benefit from introductions and referrals to each other’s material and life sciences customers, and customers themselves, who will have access to a full range of world-class discovery tools.”

Bill Blake, vice president of Compaq’s High Performance Technical Computing group, said, “As the leading platform vendor in life sciences discovery, Compaq is delighted to formalize our relationship with an applications vendor such as Thermo, which exceeds our criteria as a leading technology vendor, developing and maintaining application architecture that complements Compaq’s own hardware strategies and capabilities. Compaq was impressed by Thermo LabSystems’ functionally rich LIMS and its commitment to global customer support provided by its multi-disciplinary PathfinderTM services operation. Another factor was the high rate of adoption of Thermo LabSystems’ LIMS among progressive life science organizations.”

Thermo LabSystems was ranked as a top ten bioinformatics company in Frost & Sullivan’s analysis report on The U.S. Bioinformatics Market, published in October 2001. The report referred to Thermo LabSystems’ leading product in biotechnology applications, NautilusTM LIMS. Nautilus offers the bioresearch community new levels of user empowerment, sample traceability, and instrument integration. The latest version of the product offers flexible and dynamic capabilities for micro-array and microtiter plate handling and advanced sequencer integration.

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