January 30, 2007

WinRAR, the most complete and technologically up-to-date archiving software has now partnered with HCL, India's leading IT Company.

win.rar GmbH is proud to announce their partnership with India's premier information enabling and integration company and developer of India’s first PC. Under this alliance, HCL Infosystems Ltd. will offer WinRAR- the best compression tool available in the market, as a pre-installed application on all their PCs (desktops and notebooks).

win.rar GmbH is dedicated to providing users around the world easier access to WinRAR and working with an industry leader like HCL is a great way to accomplish that. WinRAR was selected as the preferred compression tool by HCL Infosystems, after their extensive evaluation of the utility yielded excellent results.

Announcing the partnership, Mr. Oncul Kaya, Managing Director of win.rar GmbH, said, "We are thrilled to announce this partnership as it brings the two pioneers in the field of information technology together, making WinRAR more accessible to Indian consumers". He further adds, “this is a great opportunity for WinRAR and an added advantage for the users of HCL Computers. We are happy to be able to offer WinRAR by partnering with such a reputable company. This is just the beginning of a long business relationship and we look forward to working on other major campaigns with HCL.”

Mr. Rajendra Kumar – Executive Vice President, HCL Infosystems Ltd., said “HCL has always foreseen and understood the need of the customer in the Indian PC market.
Increasing usage of heavy multimedia files and their safe transmission over the Internet has become the need of the hour, where WinRAR will work as an effective compression tool and, with its 128-bit password encryption and authenticated signature technology, is totally safe. We are confident that with state-of-the-art capabilities of HCL products, coupled with this highly useful utility, we would be able to further consolidate our value proposition to all future PC customers.”

About WinRAR:
WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content up to 30 percent better than ZIP files.
WinRAR's main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, processing of non-RAR archives, long filename support, programmable self-extracting archives(SFX), damaged archive repair, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. WinRAR is available in over 40 different languages and runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Vista. The command line version RAR is available for Linux, DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD and MAC OS X. Pocket RAR, the FREE WinRAR version for Pocket PCs and the new WinRAR for U3 complete the compression product range. So WinRAR simply is "The Size Solution".

About win.rar GmbH
win.rar GmbH is the official publisher for WinRAR and RARLAB products since February 2002 and handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR & rarlab.com. win.rar GmbH is located in Germany and is represented globally through it's local partners in six continents and in more than 70 countries. The company is dedicated to offering the highest level of quality support to its customers, and to constantly improving its software according to their needs and feedback.

About HCL Infosystems
HCL Infosystems, with revenue (TTM) of US$ 2.7 billion (Rs. 12,155 crores), is India's premier information enabling and system integration company. HCL offers products and infrastructure solutions in the fields of computing, communication, networking, office automation, broadcasting and imaging. It has partnerships with leading global players like Intel, AMD, Toshiba, Bull, Ericsson, Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia, Apple, Computer Associates, Casio, Symantec and Konica Minolta among others. HCL has a direct sales, channel sales and retail sales network pan India. HCL has a support of 360+ customer service centers and four ISO 9001 certified state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. HCL Infosystems has pan India presence across metros and non-metros. With a mission to provide world-class information technology solutions and services to enable its customers to serve their customers better, HCL Infosystems is forever setting new standards of IT in the country. For more information about HCL Infosystems please visit www.hclinfosystems.in