AIS Ships XESS 4.0 Enterprise Spreadsheet for UNIX, OpenVMS, and Windows NT.CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1998--Applied Information Systems (AIS) announced today that it has begun the general release of XESS XESS X Engineering Software Systems Corp 4.0, a major new version of its popular spreadsheet and related development tools for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , OpenVMS, and Windows NT systems. XESS 4.0 supports user-configurable 3-D workbooks with up to 10 million rows, enhanced display and print formatting, international locales (including multi-byte languages), full Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 compliance, Web enablement, and a high level of compatibility with the Excel and Lotus spreadsheet products. XESS 4.0 is supported on the widest variety of enterprise servers and workstations, with applications created using the development API freely interacting across platforms. For example, an XESS add-in (e.g. the Trade extension) can seamlessly provide real-time market data from a UNIX server to a mixture of workstations using Windows NT, UNIX, and OpenVMS. "The early-release users of XESS 4.0 have been very enthusiastic about itsmany new features that give them more power and flexibility while maintaining the familiar spreadsheet look and feel," said Arthur Coston, president of AIS. "They also appreciate the higher level of interoperability with other spreadsheet products." XESS 4.0 is available worldwide from AIS and its partners for: -- Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill -- SunOS and Solaris -- Compaq (Digital) Alpha -- OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows NT -- HP 9000 -- HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. -- IBM RS/6000 -- AIX -- Silicon Graphics -- IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. -- DEC VAX and DECstation -- OpenVMS/VMS, Ultrix -- Data General Aviion AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when (88/Open) -- DG/UX -- Intel PC (x86) -- SCO, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT Applied Information Systems, headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chapel Hill is a town in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the oldest state-supported university in the United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 48,715. As of 2004 its estimated population was 52,440. , is a 25-year-old supplier of software products and solutions. AIS is a technology leader in network-enabled spreadsheet solutions for end-users, corporate environments, system integrators, and third-party developers. Its XESS spreadsheet technology is used daily by ten's of thousands of users as a general-purpose spreadsheet or integrated into the most challenging applications -- designing automobiles and airplanes, monitoring spacecraft, deploying troops, controlling the power grid, and trading securities. For more information see http://www.ais.com. XESS is a licensed, registered trademark of Applied Information Systems. All others are trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: AIS
Arthur Coston, President, 919/942-7801
919/493-7563 (FAX)
Coston@ais.com
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