BeOpen.com Releases World-Class Applications as Open Source; BeOpen.com's Advanced Software Development Tools Released as Open Source.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999-- BeOpen.com, the cross-platform Open Source applications company, announced today the release of its fourth-generation enterprise software development and information management tools as Open Source Software (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ). The release of major new generations of InfoDock (an advanced, turnkey integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment ), the OO-Browser (a fast object-oriented code browser) and Hyperbole (an everyday hypertextual information manager with web integration) follows major Open Source announcements from firms such as Red Hat Software, VA Linux Systems and SourceXchange in the past six months. Divisions of Hewlett-Packard and Motorola are already supporting BeOpen.com's OSS model, purchasing support and training from BeOpen.com and receiving free use of the software and source code. All three BeOpen.com applications are available now for download at www.BeOpen.com. Bob Weiner, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BeOpen.com said, "The value equation is simple. Our tools have proven to speed software developer and engineering productivity by 200 to 400% within the first year of usage in major commercial environments. With technical staff in such short supply, forward-looking companies have to find more effective solutions like those from BeOpen.com to meet shrinking product cycles. Because our products run across major enterprise platforms (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. , Solaris, Linux, Windows, plus other UNIXes) and are completely open, cross-platform challenges are solved once and for all. And this is just the beginning of our strategy to deliver via the Internet best-in-class Open Source applications that meet real-world needs." InfoDock is one of the most sophisticated Integrated Development Environments (IDE) available on the market today with powerful multi-language editors, point and click compiler and debugger interfaces, and attractive color-coded program editing. "I've been using InfoDock for several years, and have found it to be one of the most time-saving, powerful tools I've ever used," raved Rami rami [L.] plural of ramus. rami communicantes bundles of nerve fibers connecting a sympathetic ganglion to spinal nerve; categorized as gray rami (unmyelinated postganglionic fibers) or white rami (myelinated preganglionic Levy, Motorola team leader. Steve Baur, lead developer of the Open Source XEmacs editor, said, "InfoDock builds on the power of XEmacs to produce a leading edge, language-independent software development and information management environment that professional developers find hard to live without." BeOpen.com's OO-Browser is the world's only object-oriented code browser that supports most major object-oriented languages (Java, C++/C, Python, Eiffel, Objective-C, Lisp (CLOS CLOS - Common LISP Object System ) and Smalltalk). It is fast and allows developers to quickly understand complex OO architectures which were impossible to navigate before. As Jake Colman, a financial software developer at Principia prin·cip·i·um n. pl. prin·cip·i·a A principle, especially a basic one. [Latin pr  ncipium; see principle.] Partners, puts it, "I can safely state that the OO-Browser has done wonders for my productivity given the ease with which I can look at my classes, class methods, and easily jump around my source code." BeOpen's third application is Hyperbole, an open, efficient and programmable hypertextual information management and outliner An outliner is a special text editor that allows text to be structured as an outline. Outliners are typically used for computer programming, collecting or organizing ideas, Getting Things Done, or project management. system. It is intended for everyday work on any 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). or Windows platform. Hyperbole includes a diverse set of hypertextual button types, including Internet URLs, which may be embedded in ordinary text documents, source code and even email messages. Hyperbole's fast, hierarchical contact management system with free-form records and full-text lookup is also unique. Chris Nuzum, Vice President for Twisted Systems, Inc. and a developer of advanced hypertextual systems, reports, "I think that Hyperbole is one of the best designed and most easily extensible software products I have ever come across. It is certainly the one which has made the biggest improvement is my personal productivity." About BeOpen.com BeOpen.com (formerly Altrasoft), in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with the Open Source community, builds, supports, funds and promotes Open Source applications for organizational and individual use. BeOpen.com was founded in San Jose, CA in 1996 by Bob Weiner and Randy Finfrock. Its CEO, Bob Weiner, has been a member of the Open Source development community for 15 years dating back to early work on the X Window System. For more information about BeOpen.com, please visit www.BeOpen,com. |
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