Data General and Adapt Technologies announce strategic alliance.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1997--Data General Corp. and Adapt Technologies Inc. today announced a new strategic alliance as part of Data General's Value Migration Strategy. Data General now markets Adapt Technologies' ADAPT toolset worldwide and provides related professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and technical support. ADAPT was chosen by Data General as its preferred solution for assisting companies in the difficult move from legacy systems to modern redesigned GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. applications. Data General's Value Migration Strategy brings together a unique combination of IT professionals, internal and external, and several leading technologies. This strategy enables Data General to offer customers the best business and technology solutions for a broad range of migration needs. ADAPT is a breakthrough application development tool designed to simplify and hasten has·ten v. has·tened, has·ten·ing, has·tens v.intr. To move or act swiftly. v.tr. 1. To cause to hurry. 2. the transition from legacy systems to high quality GUI-client/server applications. As part of their alliance, Data General and Adapt have launched several domestic and international marketing initiatives. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dan Sapir, vice president of Strategic Alliances at Data General, "Our main objective is to offer customers migration solutions that deliver real and substantial value to the business. In ADAPT we found a rare combination of benefits. On one hand, ADAPT allows companies to easily redesign the GUI and workflow of new applications, thereby addressing current business and user requirements. On the other hand, it enables developers to effectively reuse essential legacy code -- COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. , C, or Pick Basic -- resulting in greatly reduced project costs and risks." Sapir added, "Other solutions, by contrast, force developers to either reuse the entire application or rewrite it. In screen-scraping, you have to use the bad codes as well as the good, which results in inadequate business and GUI functionality. Other leading GUI development tools force you to rewrite the application from scratch. With ADAPT, we can now offer our customers a solution that delivers outstanding GUI-client/server results at a cost equal to or less than screen-scraping." "Adapt Technologies also has much to gain in this alliance. We were extremely fortunate in teaming up with Data General's Strategic Alliance Division," said Saul Simon, senior vice president of marketing, Adapt Technologies, "This group fully understands the real issues facing most IS departments. They are aware that most IS departments, or even independent software vendors, find that leading 4GL and OO4GL tools involve immense retraining re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train , high development costs and risks." About Adapt Technologies Adapt Technologies Inc., based in Burlington, Mass., develops and markets legacy-to-GUI application development tools. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , ADAPT, enables enterprises to rapidly build user-centric, Microsoft-compliant GUI applications for client/server and I-net environments while preserving what is valuable in their current legacy systems. About Data General Data General Corp. (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) ), headquartered in Westboro, Mass., specializes in servers, storage systems and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.3 billion for fiscal 1996. Additional information on Data General Corp., its products and its services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com . -0- All brands and product names appearing in the press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Brodeur Porter Novelli Porter Novelli International is a leading, global PR and lobbying firm. It is part of the Omnicom Group of advertising and marketing companies, the world's largest advertising conglomerate. The following article on Porter Novelli was obtained from "Sourcewatch. Gina Rezendes 617/587-2839 grezendes@brodeur.com or Adapt Technologies Inc. Saul Simon 617/229-9229 ssimon@adpt.com |
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