Bristol Technology Inc. Introduces Tributary Allowing Developers to Use Visual C++ to Develop Applications for OS/390 and UNIX.DANBURY, Conn--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1999--Bristol Technology Inc. today introduced Tributary(TM), a new software product that enables software developers to use Microsoft Visual C++ as their integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) 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). and OS/390, 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) S/390's flagship 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. . Tributary extends the Visual C++ IDE, leveraging existing knowledge, to write, compile, link, and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. enterprise applications. Tributary offers the following powerful capabilities: - ability to develop and maintain existing OS/390 or UNIX applications from a PC; - ability to combine the power and reliability of OS/390 and UNIX with the ease of use of Visual C++ application development; and - ability to integrate with third party tools, including Bristol's Wind/U portability toolkit, allowing developers to write native OS/390 and UNIX applications from Visual C++, and to easily port Win32 and MFC applications to UNIX. "We're committed to helping our customers solve their cross-platform development challenges," explained Chane Cullens, president of Bristol Technology. "Tributary allows software developers to work in a single development environment for enterprise-wide projects, thereby shortening development cycles, improving application quality and dramatically reducing training and equipment costs." "Open development environments ensure customer flexibility by allowing their critical business applications to run on the platform that best meets their needs," said Richard Michos, director of ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Marketing and Technical Support for the IBM Server Group. "Customers can use solutions like Bristol's Tributary for Visual C++ to develop native OS/390 mission-critical applications that leverage the superior scalability and availability of the S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server A family of S/390 (System/390) mainframes from IBM that are air cooled and use CMOS-based microprocessor technology (CPU on one chip). Introduced in 1994 as the 9672 series, Parallel Enterprise Servers rapidly replaced the earlier water-cooled, bipolar machines that were considerably ." Tributary Client and Server The Tributary Client, installed on a PC, is tightly integrated with Microsoft's Visual C++ IDE, and enhances the Visual C++ IDE to allow developers to write, build, and debug OS/390 and UNIX applications. Developers can write Windows applications as they normally would with Visual C++. And with Tributary, they can extend Visual C++ to build an application on a remote OS/390 or UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services . All the remote compiler/linker output appears in the Visual C++ IDE as if the application was building locally. The Tributary Server, installed on remote OS/390 or UNIX systems, interprets commands from the Tributary Client. The Tributary Server converts Visual C++ options to the equivalent compiler/linker options for the target platform. The Tributary Server runs the OS/390 and UNIX compilers, linkers, debuggers, and other developer tools used to build the application. Developers can also take advantage of existing OS/390 and UNIX code in multi-platform applications. Tributary enables software developers to import and use existing OS/390 and UNIX source and makefiles. Pricing and Availability Tributary is currently available for IBM OS/390 and Sun Solaris. Introductory pricing is based on target platforms, and starts at $2,000 per server and $300 per client. A free 14-day trial version of Tributary is available at www.bristol.com/tributary. About Bristol Technology Headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut “Danbury” redirects here. For other uses, see Danbury (disambiguation). Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It has an estimated population as of July 1, 2005 of 78,736. , Bristol Technology Inc. has a European subsidiary in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and a development center in Bangalore, India. Bristol develops, markets, and supports the Wind/U family of Windows and UNIX cross-platform development products. Founded in 1991, the company was listed in the 1997 Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. In addition to Tributary, Bristol's products include Wind/U, the cross-platform application development toolkit; HyperHelp(TM), software for creating UNIX-based online help systems with WinHelp functionality; Xprinter(TM), the printer subsystem for X Windows See X Window. ; and Jprinter, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. network printing system for Java. For more information, please visit Bristol's home page: http://www.bristol.com Copyright (c) 1999 Bristol Technology Inc. Bristol Technology, Wind/U and Jprinter are registered trademarks and Tributary, HyperHelp and Xprinter are trademarks of Bristol Technology Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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