AIS Ships XESS 4.1 Enterprise Spreadsheet for Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS, and Windows NT.CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 1999-- Applied Information Systems (AIS) announced today that it has begun the general release of XESS XESS X Engineering Software Systems Corp 4.1, a major revision of the popular spreadsheet and related development tools for Linux, 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 4.1 spreadsheet is the first version to support the xsBasic Macro Option. The xsBasic language is an object-oriented version of BASIC with objects designed specifically for use as the macro facility for the XESS Spreadsheet. Other major enhancements with this release include: - Enhanced filters for Excel 97, Excel 2000, and Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets - Support for the 1904 date model with years from 1601 to 3999 and user-defined date/time formatting. - Nearly 50 additional functions. - A general Search and Replace tool. XESS 4.1 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 compliance, Web enablement, and a high level of compatibility with the Excel and Lotus spreadsheet products. "XESS 4.1 and xsBasic are major steps toward our goal of providing the best spreadsheet products with the most features and the best performance across the largest number of platforms," said Arthur Coston, president of AIS. "Early users of this new version are enthusiastic about the macro facility and the improved inter-operability with other spreadsheet products." XESS 4.1 is supported on the widest variety of enterprise servers and workstations, with applications freely interacting across platforms. For example, an XESS add-in (e.g. the Xess/Trade extension for real-time financial market data) can seamlessly provide real-time market data from a UNIX server to a mixture of workstations using Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS, and Windows NT. XESS 4.1 is available worldwide from AIS and its partners for: - Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) 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 (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPQ) Alpha -- OpenVMS, Digital UNIX, Windows NT - Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPW) 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 (NYSE:IBM) RS/6000 -- AIX - Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) -- 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 (NYSE:DGN) Aviion (88/Open) -- DG/UX - Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) -- -- SCO (NASDAQ:SCOC) -- Solaris x86 -- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows NT -- Linux from Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT), SuSE, Debian, Caldera, TurboLinux 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 26-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. |
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