- Plat'Home
Infobox_Company
company_name = Plat'Home Co., Ltd.
ぷらっとホーム株式会社
company_
company_type = Corporation, tyo|6836
foundation = Tokyo, 1993
location_city =Tokyo
location_country = Japan
company_slogan = Your Best Partner
key_people = Tomoyasu Suzuki, President
industry = Server
Storage
Computer-related products
products = Private brand servers, storage solutions, MicroServer (palm-sized Linux servers), appliance servers,PacketiX VPN (resale), KANSHI monitoring software, PShare computer switch
revenue =
net_income =
num_employees = 49 (2007)
subsid = Plat'Home USA
homepage = [http://www.plathome.co.jp/ http://www.plathome.co.jp]
footnotes =Plat'Home Co., Ltd. is an IT company located in
Akihabara ,Tokyo , Japan. Its main businesses are private brand servers, storage solutions, appliance servers, MicroServers (palm-sized Linux servers) and related products and software. It is also a leader inopen source computing in Japan, and has been a reseller ofFreeBSD andLinux distributions as well as developing its own Linux distributionSSD/Linux (specialized for use with the Plat'Home MicroServers).The company started in 1993 as a reseller for computer hardware as well as Linux and FreeBSD distributions, and later
BeOS . To broaden the scope beyond just bringing foreign technology to Japan, Plat'Home introduced the first server line under its own brand in 1996 and has since specialized in appliance servers and storage solutions. In 2000, Plat'Home delved into a new market by introducing the OpenBlockS, the first model of its palm-sized high-durability MicroServer line.In the same year the company went public at the
Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market.In 2005 the Plat'Home head office moved into
Akihabara Daibiru , the new beacon of the Tokyo Akihabara district. With the move, Plat'Home became a part of Akihabara Crossfield, an initiative for academic-industrial partnership. As the first fruit of the cooperation, Plat'Home has become "First Partner" forSoftEther , developer of theVPN software PacketiX VPN.In 2007 Plat'Home opened its first foreign subsidiary in San Jose, USA, to market its MicroServer product line overseas.
History
External links
* [http://www.plathome.com/ Plat'Home Global Site] (English)
* [http://www.plathome.co.jp/ Plat'Home Corporate Site] (Japanese)
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