Amoco Standardizes on Sun Solaris and Solstice Software for Exploration and Production UNIX Desktop Environment; Operating Environment and Management Software Chosen for Desktops Serving AMOCO Geologists, Geophysicists, and Engineers Worldwide.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1996--Sun Microsystems Inc. and Amoco Corp. today announced that Sun's Solaris 2.5.1 operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and Solstice solstice (sŏl`stĭs) [Lat.,=sun stands still], in astronomy, either of the two points on the ecliptic that lie midway between the equinoxes (separated from them by an angular distance of 90°). AutoClient desktop management software have been approved by Amoco Corp.'s Architecture and Standards Council as standards for the 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). desktops in Amoco's worldwide exploration and production sector. To address dramatically increasing computing demands, Amoco is currently upgrading from Sun SPARCstation devices to UltraSPARC workstations running the Solaris 2.5.1 operating environment, and has purchased Solstice AutoClient licenses for its worldwide UNIX desktop environment. "Amoco is continually seeking ways to offer performance gains to its desktop users while deploying systems administration resources more efficiently -- Sun offers the strongest solution," says Keith Gray, senior geophysicist, Amoco Exploration and Production Technology Group. Anticipated advantages of the move to the Solaris 2.5.1 operating environment include enhanced productivity and access to new features like NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System software version 3.0. The Solaris 2.5.1 operating environment will provide Amoco geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers around the world with faster graphics and the ability to process increasingly large data sets. The application of Solstice AutoClient software is expected to create substantial administrative cost administrative cost Managed care A cost incurred by the 'business' end of a health care facility or university–eg, staffing and personnel costs, nursing home and hospital administration, insurance, and overhead expenses. Cf Indirect costs. efficiencies by making workstations field replaceable See FRU. -- enabling `cookie cutter' reconfiguration from a central server rather than on-site at widely dispersed locations worldwide. Solstice AutoClient software eliminates the need to do desktop backups, installations, and software management, and turns the desktop's disk into a cache for the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , applications, and user data. For Amoco, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gray, Solstice AutoClient software will also add scalability to its Solaris network servers and reduce user downtime worldwide. "Today's corporate right-sizing efforts are challenging system administrators to keep costs down as they manage large distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. . Sun developed Solstice AutoClient to reduce the costs of desktop administration by as much as 90%," says Terry Keeley, vice president and general manager for Sun's Solstice brand of products. "Solstice AutoClient is evidence of Sun's commitment to Amoco -- and other leaders in the enormous segment of the energy industry served by Sun --- who have an increasingly high ratio of UNIX workstation users to system administrators." Amoco Corp. Amoco Corp. is one of the world's leading integrated petroleum and chemical companies, with revenues of approximately $30 billion a year and operations in 40 countries. With total assets exceeding $29 billion (U.S.), Amoco Corp. is the thirteenth-largest industrial corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Amoco was founded in 1889 as Standard Oil Company (Indiana), and today Amoco has approximately 43,000 employees worldwide. Amoco's 17 business groups are organized into three sectors: exploration and production, petroleum products, and chemicals. Charged with finding and developing crude oil and natural gas resources, the exploration and production sector focuses on approximately 25 countries with proven resource potential, including the United States, Norway, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. Sun Microsystems Inc. With annual revenues of more than $7 billion, Sun Microsystems Inc., provides products and services that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing, Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Solstice, Solstice AutoClient, and NFS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries. All 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 trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc. in the United Sates and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively licensed through X/Open, Ltd CONTACT: SunSoft, Inc. Craig Welch, 415/786-4704 craig.welch@eng.sun.com or UpStart Communications Laura Elliott, 303/604-9487 lelliott@upstart.com |
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