Eurotech Engineer Honored with Tenth Consecutive Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award

COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products, and systems, announces today that Bruce Eitman, a field application engineer, has earned Microsoft's prestigious Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2011.  Eitman has been named a Microsoft MVP for ten straight years.

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The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with users and Microsoft. As a field application engineer, Eitman works closely with Eurotech customers to ensure project success.

"Microsoft MVPs represent a highly select group of experts who share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others," said Rich Kaplan, Corporate Vice President, Customer and Partner Advocacy, Microsoft.  "MVPs are technology's best and brightest, and we are honored to name Eitman as one of them for the tenth year in a row."

Eitman frequently presents at Microsoft events, answers questions in the Windows CE newsgroups and maintains a public blog at http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/.  He also earned the Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist credential in the area of Platform Builder for Windows CE 6.0 in 2008.

Eurotech Inc., a US-based subsidiary of the Eurotech Group, is a six-time winner of the Independent Hardware Vendor Excellence Award from Microsoft. Eurotech provides application-ready Windows CE and Windows Embedded Standard platforms and systems in healthcare, transportation, industrial and logistics industries.

About Eurotech

Eurotech is a listed global company (ETH.MI) that integrates hardware, software, services and expertise to deliver embedded computing platforms and sub-systems to leading OEMs, system integrators and enterprise customers for successful and efficient deployment of their products and services. Drawing on concepts of minimalist computing, Eurotech lowers power draw, minimizes physical size and reduces coding complexity to bring sensors, embedded platforms, sub-systems, ready-to-use devices and high performance computers to market, specializing in healthcare, defense, transportation, industrial and energy segments. By combining domain expertise in wireless connectivity as well as communications protocols, Eurotech architects integrated solutions that simplify data capture, processing and transfer over unified communications networks. Our customers rely on us to simplify their access to state-of-art embedded technologies so they can focus on their core competencies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.

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