Data General Intel based AViiON servers to run thousands of software applications; Servers support DG/UX and Windows NT operating systems.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---Oct. 23, 1995--More than 15,000 software applications will run on Data General's new Intel based See Intel-based system. family of AViiON servers. The systems fully support both DG/UX, the company's UNIX-based enterprise 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. , and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. server. "We have been working closely with the industry's leading 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). software developers for almost a year, as we prepared to launch our new AViioN line," said Dave Ellenberger, vice president of Corporate Marketing for Data General. "As a result, virtually all of the leading enterprise and database UNIX software developers either have already completed the porting of their software to our Intel based AViiON systems or soon will." Ellenberger said that thousands of UNIX applications are immediately available with the new AViiON servers. The list of software providers, who have ported their UNIX software to the Intel based AViiON systems, includes such leading companies as Computer Associates, Informix, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pick Systems, Progress, Sybase, Tivoli, Unadata and VMark. In addition to the UNIX applications, the approximately 7,000 shrink-wrapped applications that run on Windows NT Server R3.51 also will now be available on the Intel based AViiON systems. Data General's DG/UX enterprise operating system is rated as the finest commercial UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services by industry analysts. The newest release, DG/UX 4.1, supports high levels of multiprocessor scalability, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , unique cluster features like a single system image and rolling software upgrades, and 7 X 24 systems management capabilities. "UNIX will continue to be the operating system of choice for mission-critical enterprise applications," said Ellenberger. "However, Windows NT is often utilized at the departmental and workgroup application server level. With our new Intel based AViiON systems, we can provide flexible support to our customers who choose to use NT at the departmental level in concert with DG/UX at the enterprise level. This approach offers a tightly integrated environment that leverages the complementary strengths of each operating system." Data General is supporting NT with Microsoft-certified field software consultants. Through DG/Advanced Sever 3.5 for UNIX (DG/ASU), Windows clients can access databases, applications, and services on AViiON systems running DG/UX. This product enables AViiON systems running DG/UX to look like native Windows NT Severs to Microsoft clients and to appear as peers to NT servers. Data General is currently the only vendor shipping this leading-edge product. Data General's Windows NT based Enterprise Management station provides a single integrated platform to manage DG/UX systems, NT systems, CLARiiON disk arrays and other UNIX systems, all from a central site. Both operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. fully support Data General's industry-leading CLARiiON RAID storage arrays. "With CLARiiON and Windows NT, we bring high availability and mission-critical reliability to server-based workgroup applications such as Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. ," said Ellenberger. Data General is an open systems company specializing in providing servers, storage systems and related software and services to information systems users worldwide. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com or gopher.dg.com. -0- AViiON, CLARiiON, and DG/UX are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. CONTACT: Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 and Edelman Worldwide George Goldman/Debbie Young, 212/704-4440/415/968-4033 -0- Backgrounder -- Software Partner/Customer Endorsements Computer Associates Mark Sokol Vice President, Product Strategy "Our clients rely on the AViiON/CA-OpenIngres combination for high performance in a highly available environment. CA-Open Ingres on the new Data General Intel platform will provide a significant boost in both dimensions." Datalogix International Richard Giordanella Chairman, 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. "Process manufacturers require systems that are scalable, highly-available and offer a high return on their investment. We believe the combination of Datalogix and Oracle software with the new AViiON Intel based systems meets these needs and will open many opportunities for our sales forces." Informix Software, Inc. Mike Saranga Senior Vice President, Product Management and Development "Informix and Data General have had a long and successful working relationship. We'll bring our XPS (1) See XML Paper Specification. (2) A brand name for certain models of Inspiron laptops from Dell. product, our massively parallel See MPP. version 8, into the AViiON environment early next year. We're delighted with Data General's move into the Intel environment. This will allow many of our VARs and their applications to move successfully and with minimal recompilation Re`com`pi`la´tion n. 1. A new compilation. to the environment." InterSystems Corp. Paul Grabscheid Vice President, Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. "We found the port of software to the Intel based AViiON platform to be incredibly easy -- it took us a few hours. We have done some optimization now and found the performance to be really terrific. Our worldwide customers are going to get great performance and great value using these systems for their enterprise's transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. , client/server applications." Meditech Howard Messing Executive Vice President "Meditech is very excited about Data General's introduction of their new Intel based AViiON computers. We've been associated with Data General for almost 25 years and have seen them pioneer the introduction of many new technologies over that time. We're about to introduce a new version of our software, a client/server platform based on Windows NT. We've had Data General's AViiON systems in house for a few months and they've performed with the reliability and performance we expect from Data General." Oracle Corp. Dr. Thomas Hildebrand Vice President, UNIX and RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. Products Division "Data General has always had a very strong UNIX implementation with DG/UX. This allowed us to provide a highly optimized and tuned database port to this platform. With DG's new Intel based AViiON products, we now have the additional option to deploy readily available applications. When you combine the benefits of a highly stable and optimized UNIX and database platform with readily available applications, you have a winner." PeopleSoft Frank Strelau Vice President, Business Development "PeopleSoft and Data General focus on the high end of the market where performance is critical to success. As business partners, we've been delivering innovative programs such as the price/performance guarantee that allows our customers a relatively risk-free option in the move to client/server. As Data General adopts the Intel architecture, we feel that this further enhances the scalability of the combined PeopleSoft and Data General solutions." Progress Software Cary Johnson Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing "Progress Software has already certified our entire environment on the new Intel based AViiON server line. The result is that our tools, our database, and over 5,000 applications which are currently powered by Progress are available for the new Intel based AViiON line." Sybase David C. Harris Product Director, Advanced Indexing Products "We at Sybase have found the Data General AViiON AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when line to be highly reliable and scalable. We are really enthusiastic about the Intel based AViiON line with the NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) A multiprocessing architecture in which memory is separated into close and distant banks. NUMA is similar to SMP, in which multiple CPUs share a single memory. However, in SMP, all CPUs access a common memory at the same speed. technology, since it has tremendous potential for our breakthrough Sybase IQ Sybase IQ, formally Sybase Adaptive Server IQ, is a relational database software system used for data warehousing, produced by the Sybase corporation. Features query accelerator and, in general, the area of data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse ." VMark Software Andrew Ridgers Vice President, Engineering and Development "I'm pleased to announced the availability of VMark's Universe multi-dimensional database for Data General's new Intel hardware platform. We found that the level of compatibility in DG/UX is so high that we were able to complete the port in record time. VMark's uniVerse software allows approximately 1,200 turnkey applications to provide solutions to many general business problems." Unidata, Inc. Alan Snell Vice President, Marketing "Unidata has worked closely with Data General for years and consider them to be one of our most important business partners. We've installed hundreds of AViiON UNIX machines around the world and have been very much involved in high-end multi-processor sales as well. We believe our resellers who represent well over one thousand business applications will enthusiastically embrace the Unidata nested database running on Data General Intel Platforms." Symix Computer Systems, Inc. Jim Randall Senior Vice President, America's Sales "The new AViiON products and strategies track with those of Symix as we move our application exclusively to the client/server environment A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. . Symix will combine an easy-to-use Microsoft-centric graphical interface See GUI. with high-availability servers to support our application. The new Intel based AViiON servers provide excellent Microsoft desktop support as well as the choice of two proven operating environments, DG/UX and Windows NT, to fit the customer's needs. Our software is ready to run on AViiON." HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy & Company C. Michael Cooper "We've always been impressed with Data General's innovative engineering in such areas as symmetric multiprocessing See SMP. (parallel) symmetric multiprocessing - (SMP) Two or more similar processors connected via a high-bandwidth link and managed by one operating system, where each processor has equal access to I/O devices. and disk array technology, where Data General came out with products significantly ahead of the competition. We feel that the movement now to Intel based systems is another significant step forward for them. B` using Intel systems they can take advantage of the huge development efforts in processor technology that Intel can put into systems. This should allow Data General to bring to market higher performance systems at a lower cost and bring them to market more rapidly. When healthcare information needs are soaring and cost containment cost containment, n the features of a dental benefits program or of the administration of the program designed to reduce or eliminate certain charges to the plan. is at an all time high, we feel this value will translate into very good products and value for our customers." QAD QAD Quality Assurance Division QAD Quality Assurance Department QAD Quick And Dirty QAD Quality Audit Division QAD Quick Attach/Detach QAD Question Answer Detail (language arts education) QAD Quality Application Development , Inc. Pamela Meyer Lopker President "Recently, we ported our MFG MFG Manufacturing MFG Manufacturer MFG Mit Freundlichen Grüßen (German: With Best Regards) MfG Mitfahrgelegenheit (German) MFG Marithe Francois Girbaud (French clothing company) Pro product to the new AViiON Intel based servers from Data General. I'm delighted to tell you how easy that went. We were able to port our entire product line to the new AViiON server in less than one day. We were able to incorporate all of our standard scripts and had to make virtually no changes to our software. We're delighted to see how easy Data General made that for us." SABRE Travel Information Network A Division of AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. Corp. Stan Boyer Product Manager, Travel Management Systems "We're a reseller of Data General AViiON servers. We have a large client/server accounting system that we sell to hundreds of travel agencies throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and the United Kingdom. Data General has always been a good business partner for us. And, in fact, we use them as the benchmark by which we judge other vendors. We are very excited about the new line of servers that Data General is bringing to the marketplace. We feel they will offer the high performance that our customers seek and continue to allow us to give them the unsurpassed service and commitment level that they have come to expect from both us and Data General." Stuller Settings Scott Melkild Director of Data Processing "Data General continues to deliver systems which give us the performance and flexibility to implement new applications critical to the success of our business. With the new Intel based AViiON as the hub of our open systems network, we can use off-the-shelf productivity tools for rapid application development across multiple platforms." Accu-Tech Computer Services Bob Lyles Vice President "As a long-time Data General reseller we have sold our applications to many satisfied customers on the Data General ECLIPSE The Data General Eclipse line of computers by Data General were 16-bit minicomputers released in early 1974 and sold until 1988. The Eclipse was based on many of the same concepts as the Data General Nova, but included support for virtual memory and multitasking more suitable to , MV, and AViiON product lines. Accu-Tech greatly appreciates the fact that Data General is committed to providing high-performance, cost-effective systems, and we eagerly look forward to the new Intel based AViiON systems as we feel they will provide the next incremental jump in price/performance." GERS Retail Systems Gary C. Reif President and CEO "We at GERS are very, very excited about Data General's new Intel based architecture. We feel that this architecture will give us superior price/performance to beat the competition in a very, very tough retail environment. We're excited about the smooth transitioning of our hundreds of retailers to this new architecture." Health Data Sciences Corp. Dr. Ralph A. Korpman Chairman and CEO "Health Data Sciences Corporation has been caring for its customers in healthcare for over 15 years. Our partnerships between our vendors, ourselves and our customers allow us to help our customers enhance the quality of care they deliver while reducing costs, something that must be done in this era of changing healthcare values. We provide large systems with thousands of terminals in client/server networks. We need the new technology represented by the new Intel announcement and our partnership with Data General to help our clients succeed. Genesis Health Ventures, a large elder care company that sees 60,000 patients a day is using these new systems and our UltiCare system to knit together their operations in seven eastern states so that they can take maximally good care of all the elder population they serve." CONTACT: Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 and Edelman Worldwide George Goldman/Debbie Young, 212/704-4440/415/968-4033 |
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