
28 January 2008, 11:58pm
New LizardTech Forums site invites you to share your thoughts and opinions
SEATTLE, Wash. — January 29, 2008 — LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, today officially launched its new online Forums site for open discussion on all things related to LizardTech and its product lines. The LizardTech Forums can be accessed at http://www.lizardtech.com/forums/ and community members are encouraged to post tips, tricks, questions and general discussion on the geospatial industry.
"LizardTech’s Forums site is a great way to share industry findings among users," said Robert Parker, LizardTech Sales Engineer and Forum contributor. "This site is a great resource for LizardTech users; it is always on and it makes communication with our customers easier.”
The new Forums site is an interactive environment where LizardTech users and employees can communicate with, support, and search for and share industry knowledge with one another on topics ranging from geospatial image formats, software interoperability, compression tools, and more. LizardTech Forums is a location where users can share their thoughts and opinions on all topics related to geospatial imaging; the site strives to provide interesting discussion and topics for user-to-user conversation.
"With the new Forums site focused on geospatial content, we are able to share information and listen to the people who use our products," said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech Senior Product Manager. "This interaction will help us build products in the future that help our customers even more."
About LizardTech
LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., was founded in 1992 to build valuable business solutions from technologies created by the world's leading research organizations including Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AT&T Labs. LizardTech is a leader in applying state-of-the-art technologies to the real-world challenges of managing, distributing, and accessing large complex digital content such as aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and color scanned documents. LizardTech's software is installed on millions of desktops and integrated into a wide variety of platforms and applications. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, London and Tokyo. LizardTech is a division of Celartem, Inc., which is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

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