Bentley releases newest version of MicroStation for OS/2 Warp; Company expands its lead in platform choices and IBM support, also announces AIX and PowerPC products.ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1996--A/E/C SYSTEMS '96- Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Inc. (Exton, PA), a leader in engineering software and services, announced that it is now shipping MicroStation 95, the newest version of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , for OS/2 Warp. In widening its market lead in platform choices and support for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) environments, the company also announced that MicroStation 95 for PowerPC-based computers running Windows NT is shipping and that MicroStation 95 for AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. has entered into beta test. MicroStation 95 was certified by IBM in their "Ready for OS/2 Warp" program. Users can now receive the popular product optimized for OS/2 Warp, including its native user interface and environment. The OS/2 Warp operating system has itself surged in popularity, now totaling over 13 million users. It recently received InfoWorld's Overall Readers Choice Product of the Year award for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year. Bentley senior vice president of marketing, Yoav Etiel, comments, "We are finding that MicroStation 95 and OS/2 Warp are exceptionally well-matched products whose worldwide users share similar enterprise-wide requirements. More and more, MicroStation users performing large-scale engineering are selecting OS/2 Warp and IBM environments." He adds, "Most of all, organizations want free choice in implementing systems for today and in taking advantage of technological advances in the future." "We are very pleased to have a market and technology leader like Bentley support OS/2 Warp," said John Schwarz, vice president, Solution Provider Marketing, IBM Software Group. He adds, "Both OS/2 Warp and MicroStation 95 offer users the scalability and durability that is necessary in today's complex computing market." In related news, Bentley announced that it has been awarded the contract to supply the engineering automation systems to the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department. The department will purchase over 335 licenses of MicroStation 95 running on OS/2 Warp and AIX during the coming year. Missouri thus becomes the forty-second state department of transportation (DOT) to adopt MicroStation as its engineering standard. The availability of MicroStation 95 for OS/2 Warp confirms Bentley's ongoing leadership in offering users the widest range of platform support. MicroStation 95 supports a full range of computers and operating systems including DOS; Windows; Windows 95; OS/2 Warp; Windows NT for Intel-based, PowerPC, and DEC Alpha AXP The brand name Digital gave to its first family of Alpha-based computers. In 1998, Digital was acquired by Compaq. See Alpha. computers; Apple Power Macintosh running System 7; 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 running Solaris 2.x; HP 700-series workstations running 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. 9 and 10; SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. R4000-based computers running 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. ; Intergraph Clipper; and IBM RS/6000(TM) series workstations running AIX. MicroStation 95 is engineered so users on all platforms can work together and seamlessly share project data, custom workspaces, and third party applications. MicroStation 95 is unique in offering developers "platform independence". Applications developed using the MicroStation Development Language (MDL MDL - (Originally "Muddle"). C. Reeve, Carl Hewitt and Gerald Sussman, Dynamic Modeling Group, MIT ca. 1971. Intended as a successor to Lisp, and a possible base for Planner-70. Basically LISP 1.5 with data types and arrays. (TM)) environment can quickly support any MicroStation 95 platform. Availability and Pricing Upgrades to MicroStation 95 are included at no additional charge to subscribers of Bentley SELECT(SM), the company's premiere support and licensing program. The MicroStation 95 upgrade is available to other commercial MicroStation registered users for $895 U.S. For new users, MicroStation 95 is priced at $3995 U.S., $3750 for additional copies to Bentley SELECT subscribers. Complete MicroStation 95 kits contain a copy of MicroStation 95 and a copy of MicroStation V5 for organizations that require the previous version. For more information on MicroStation 95, the "Class of 95" products, or other Bentley products or services, please contact Bentley at 1-800-BENTLEY, +1 610-458-5000 (US), +31 2503-85588 (Europe), +61 3-699-8699 (Asia), via e-mail at jen.mcwilliams@bentley.com, or through the World Wide Web at http://www.bentley.com/. More on MicroStation 95 MicroStation 95 is Bentley's productivity upgrade to its MicroStation V5 product. It dramatically increases user productivity and readies user environments for the latest set of MicroStation applications. It features a streamlined graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to , the new Bentley-exclusive AccuDraw (patent pending) drawing technology, and the multi-platform MicroStation BASIC language. MicroStation 95 was shipped to over 76,000 users in its first five months -- an adoption rate that is perhaps the highest ever in professional computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive (CAD). More on Bentley Bentley Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in engineering software products and user services. The company now serves over 220,000 professionals in building/plant engineering, GeoEngineering, and mechanical engineering. Its MicroStation products are proven at over 70% of the largest U.S. engineering firms and are the software foundation behind the engineering of well-known buildings, airports, hospitals, highways, machines, bridges and industrial plants throughout the world. With annual revenues of over $95 million in 1995, Bentley has risen to number three in the AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission software segment and become one of the world's fastest growing software companies. -0- MicroStation is a registered trademark; Bentley, MDL, and AccuDraw are trademarks; and Bentley SELECT is a service mark of Bentley Systems, Inc. OS/2 is a registered trademark and RS/6000 is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Boston Communications Michelle Allard, 617/247-1112 mallard mallard: see duck. mallard Abundant “wild duck” (Anas platyrhynchos, family Anatidae) of the Northern Hemisphere, ancestor of most domestic ducks. The mallard is a typical dabbling duck in its general habits and courtship display. @bcomm.com |
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