Data General Establishes Technology Alliance With Baan For Enterprise Windows NT Users.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1997-- Data General announced today that it has established a worldwide technology alliance and is now an approved hardware platform for The Baan Company's enterprise business software on Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT. Baan customers looking to implement large, mission critical, Baan IV An integrated family of client/server applications from Baan. It included manufacturing, distribution, finance, transportation, service, project and features enterprise modeling via its Orgware modules. Earlier versions of the software were named TRITON. systems on Windows NT now have the opportunity of running their applications on Data General's AViiON Intel enterprise servers. Baan certification of Data General's Intel based AViiON servers for running Baan IV on Windows NT will be completed shortly. This will give Baan customers access to Data General's award winning range of NT Cluster-in-a-Box enterprise servers, CLARiiON fibre channel disk arrays, and enterprise NT services. Commenting on the announcement, Ian Williams, Baan's Director of Product Marketing said, "More and more Baan customers want the benefits of Windows NT, without sacrificing the traditional security, manageability and scalability of their existing enterprise systems. In fact, customers can now deal directly with the manufacturer using a single point of contact for international projects. We're pleased to be working with Data General. They have a long history of expertise in enterprise systems that they are now applying to NT." "We are delighted to have established this new technology alliance with Baan", said Bill Wilson, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Data General. "Data General's market share leadership in the enterprise NT market, combined with Baan IV Backoffice, make a powerful synergy for both Baan and Data General. Customers wanting to implement their Baan applications on NT in the enterprise environment or across borders will truly benefit from this alliance." About The Baan Company The Baan Company (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BAANF; Amsterdam Stock Exchange
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the former name for the stock exchange based in Amsterdam. :BAAN), delivers its comprehensive enterprise-wide business management software to companies requiring best-in-class manufacturing capabilities. Its products are fully Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. and based on a flexible, multi-tier client/server architecture which can scale to meet the needs of small, medium and large enterprises. More than 2,400 companies use Baan in 4,000 sites worldwide. Baan's products uniquely support continuous business improvements through its capability for Dynamic Enterprise Modeling Dynamic Enterprise Modeling is the approach the Baan company uses for the Baan Enterprise Resource Planning system to align and implement it in the organizational architecture of the end-using company. . Founded in 1978, Baan has dual headquarters in Putten, The Netherlands and Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. . Additional information is available on the Company's Web site at http://www.baan.com . About Data General Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.5 billion during fiscal 1997. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com -0- AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General. All brands and product names in this press release may be trademarks. CONTACT: Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 jim_dunlap@dg.com or Brodeur Porter Novelli Denise Sutton, 617/587-2851 dsutton@brodeur.com |
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