Data General Forms Strategic Alliance With Gallagher Financial Systems.CORAL GABLES Coral Gables, city (1990 pop. 40,091), Miami-Dade co., SE Fla., SW of Miami; inc. 1925. Founded at the height of the Florida land boom, Coral Gables is a noted planned city, with tree-lined boulevards and Mediterranean-style buildings. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1999-- Gallagher Will Integrate Software with Data General Hardware Gallagher Financial Systems Inc. (GFS See Google File System. GFS - Grandfather, Father, Son ) and Data General Corp. today announced the formation of a strategic alliance. Gallagher and Data General will combine their expertise in technology and mortgage banking to provide a turnkey solution to the mortgage lending community. "Gallagher Millennium provides the best software solution in scalability and versatility to the mortgage lending industry," said Doug Gallagher, President and 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 GFS. "Teaming with Data General, which provides organizations with similar quality in servers and storage systems, makes for an exceptional alliance giving the industry a faster turnaround on our products for the new millennium." As a part of the alliance and at the client's discretion, GFS will install and configure the Gallagher Millennium system Millennium™ system Dentistry An erbium laser system that uses high-speed water particles to cut hard and soft tissues, as an alternative to a conventional dental drill and surgical scalpel. See Dentistry. on Data General equipment. This offers a "one step solution" to interested mortgage lending clients and prospects of both organizations. "The collaboration between Gallagher and Data General brings to lenders an outstanding combination of performance and investment protection at a predictable cost," said Terry Richardson, director of U.S. channel sales for Data General. "Our skills and technology complement each other extremely well and the result will be increased performance and faster deployment of the Gallagher system." The organizations will begin the alliance April 18-21 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , at the MBA's National Secondary Marketing Conference. GFS, in booth 426, will use the Data General system to demonstrate the Millennium application. The system used at the show will include Data General's AviiON(R) TermServer-in-a-Box(tm) solution. This configuration delivers a versatile computing infrastructure for economically and easily deploying the Millennium application over a variety of environments. TermServer-in-a-Box incorporates a thin-client/server computing (TCSC TCSC Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator TCSC Thin Client Server Computing TCSC Treasure Coast Sports Commission TCSC Transition Command and Staff Course TCSC Test Control and Status Circuitry TCSC Technical Committee on Soil Conservation ) architecture via Microsoft's Windows NT Server, Terminal Server Edition and Citrix Systems, Inc.'s MetaFrame to provide application services. "We have a responsibility to our clients and potential clients to give them greater control in their operations," Gallagher said. "The alliance with Data General and the deployment strategy we have developed supplies this freedom by simplifying the technology into a single and unique solution." About 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) ) is a major supplier of storage and enterprise computing solutions for customers worldwide. The company's products include CLARiiON(R) Fibre Channel storage systems, high-end NT and 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). AViiON servers, and related software and services. Data General, which is headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts, reported revenues of $1.5 billion during fiscal 1998. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at . About Gallagher Financial Systems Gallagher Financial Systems Inc., a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , is a leading provider of mortgage origination and secondary marketing software solutions. Its flagship, Gallagher Millennium, is a 32-bit, Windows-based system that automates the entire mortgage lending process. GFS is headquartered in Coral Gables, Fla., with a development office in Nashville, Tenn. For more information on GFS, contact Doug Gallagher at (800) 989-9998, write to Gallagher Financial Systems Inc., 1500 San Remo Ave., Suite 251, Coral Gables, FL 33146, e-mail Gallagher at doug@gfsmiami.com, or visit www.gogallagher.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of, and TermServer-in-a-box is a trademark of, Data General Corporation. 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