D&B Software Expands Customer Options By Making SmartStream Applications Available on Alpha UNIX Platform.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 1995--Dun & Bradstreet Software today announced the general availability of its SmartStream applications running on Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha 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). platform. SmartStream Financials, SmartStream Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and SmartStream Manufacturing/Distribution are now available on Digital Alpha UNIX. SmartStream Decision Support has been available on this platform since last year. Pricing for these products start at $100,000. "We continue to provide our customers with world-class business applications to give them a competitive edge in today's global marketplace," said Steve Ely, vice president of Global Alliances for D&B Software. "SmartStream's availability on Digital's Alpha UNIX platform provides them an opportunity to leverage Digital's price/performance and industry leading technology." "Digital places a very high value on the role solutions vendors like D&B Software play in providing business applications that our joint customers require," said Mike Gallup, vice president of worldwide systems marketing for Digital's Systems Business Unit. "The SmartStream Series is clearly one of the market leaders. We are pleased to have it available on the Alpha platform, and to expand our association with D&B Software." D&B Software's SmartStream Series, comprised of integrated business applications, comprehensive decision support facilities and a workflow-enabled platform, is a client/server-based solution designed for enterprise-wide business information. Digital's Alpha 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 is the world's first 64-bit system implementation. This scalable family of systems provides customers with cost-effective, cutting edge, commercial performance for networked and client/server environments A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. . D&B Software, with more than 10,000 customer sites in over 60 countries, is a company of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. D&B Software, with more than 2,000 employees, provides a broad range of business software products, tools and services, including decision support tools, financial, human resource, manufacturing and distribution applications. -0- EDITOR'S NOTE Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : SmartStream is a registered trademark and SmartStream Financials, SmartStream Decision Support, SmartStream Human Resources and SmartStream Manufacturing/Distribution are trademarks of of Dun & Bradstreet Software Services, Inc. Digital and Digital UNIX See Tru64 Unix. are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. Throughout this release, other software and hardware products are mentioned by name. In most, if not all cases, these products are claimed as trademarks by the companies that manufacture the products. It is not our intention to claim these names or trademarks as our own. CONTACT: D&B Software Lorretta Gasper gasp·er n. Chiefly British Slang A cigarette. , 404/239-3658 or Copithorne & Bellows bellows, expansible, gas-tight chamber used to pump or store a gas. One of the simplest and most familiar types of bellows is the manual one used for providing a forced draft to a fire. The expansible chamber consists of a leather bag with pleated sides. Elissa McCrary, 404/392-8611 |
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