About HOB...

HOB Inc.

HOB Inc., is a fully owned subsidiary of  the software development and network service provider HOB GmbH & Co. KG, a member of the Brandstätter Group, headquartered in Bavaria, Germany. HOB Inc. is the sales and support entity for the western hemisphere and Asian markets.
HOB Inc. was founded in New Jersey in April 2000 and currently has its headquarters in Hawthorne, NY, USA.

HOB GmbH & Co KG

HOB GmbH & Co KG is a mid-sized software enterprise headquartered in Germany.
HOB GmbH & Co KG develops and markets world-wide innovative solutions, particularly for secure remote access.
HOB's core competence is in server-based computing with the RDP protocol. As regards the RDP protocol, HOB is, after Microsoft, the software manufacturer with the greatest know-how, which is reflected in many of our products and solutions.
In our remote-access solutions, encryption technology is used;
HOB has IPSec and SSL products in its portfolio.
Many of the HOB client products are Java-based.

HOB is also active in the modern technologies VoIP/SIP and virtualization.
In many HOB products, Secure Single Sign-On with Kerberos is supported.

HOB has considerable experience with print solutions, especially for remote access.

HOB currently employs, both in Germany and abroad, about  120 people, half of these in the development departments.
Many of the highly qualified employees have long years of experience in HOB's core competence areas, and have been with HOB for much of this time.
Approximately half the HOB employees have a college degree or higher.

HOB solutions are designed for small, mid-sized and large enterprises, which are serviced over various distribution channels.
Particularly for large-sized customers with correspondingly wide-ranging installations, HOB can provide stabile solutions; HOB has acquired the necessary know-how in the Mainframe area.

HOB provides comprehensive support and services for the HOB products; in HOB Headquarters in Cadolzburg there is a complex network with about 80 servers from all the leading manufacturers in use.
Thus HOB can perform intensive testing of its products and re-create customer scenarios for customer-specific testing.

HOB has an integrated Networking department, where the planning, installation and distribution of LAN- and WAN-networks, as well as VoIP solutions are provided.
The Networking department complements the leading position in the Remote Access Area and creates synergy effects for the development and support of HOB products.

The BSI (German Federal Office for Information Security) has certified software from HOB in accordance with the Common Criteria.
This lets HOB prove that the offered solutions fulfill very strict security guidelines.

Areas of Operation

HOB is an internationally active company that delivers software to a variety of customers in the financial, aerospace, healthcare, education, government and other sectors.
HOB software is available in a variety of languages.

Customer care (support, maintenance, update service) is provided both directly from our central office and through HOB distributors throughout the world.
The HOB central office in Cadolzburg, Germany, houses the know-how, including foreign-language skills, required for providing our wide range of customers from throughout the
world with the best support possible

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The International Sales and HOB Software Support departments can be reached at any time, 24/7, by e-mail or over the phone.

Core Competence Areas and the Corresponding Products:

• RDP Clients in Java and for Unix/Linux:
  HOBLink JWT (= Java Windows Terminal) and
  HOBLink UWT (= Unix Windows Terminal)
• HOB RD VPN with the server component WebSecureProxy, a comprehensive secure remote access solution based on SSL and RDP.
  The HOB WebSecureProxy runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX in the corresponding versions.
• Remote Access via IPSec, especially for connecting branch offices: HOBLink VPN
• Server products for RDP access to Unix/Linux or MAC:
  HOB X11Gate and HOB Mac Gate
• SIP client in Java: HOB Phone
• Traditional terminal emulations, also in Java and supporting the protocols 3270, 5250, VT, SSH, X11/X-Windows, Siemens 9750, Siemens 97801, HP 700
  The corresponding products are HOBLink Terminal Edition and
  HOBLink J-Term (= Java Terminal).
• Software for client and printer administration on IBM Mainframes: HOBCOM
• Central configuration and administration for HOB products:
  HOB Enterprise Access
• Drivers and solutions for database access: HOBLink DRDA, HOBLink J-DRDA, HOBDB Connect

Corporate History

HOB electronic GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1964, as an electronics concern, by Horst Brandstätter. The name HOB is an acronym formed from his name.

In 1981, HOB began developing software and terminals for IBM Mainframe computers. HOB employs in its Cadolzburg Headquarters and branch offices in Germany approx. 120 people. In addition, HOB has subsidiaries in France, Austria, the Netherlands, the USA and Malta.