Dynasty Announces Support for Tandem's strategic Himalaya and Integrity platforms; Agreement provides customers with industry leading Enterprise client/server development tool for NonStop environments.LISLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1995 - Dynasty Technologies Inc., innovators of open, enterprise-class client/server development, today announced a strategic international partnership with Tandem Computers (company) Tandem Computers - A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994). , Incorporated. The partnership highlights Dynasty's and Tandem's commitment to provide development solutions for enterprise-class client/server environments and includes joint development, sales, and marketing efforts. Under the agreement, the DYNASTY Development Environment (DYNASTY), the leading object-oriented development tool for enterprise development, will add support for Tandem's strategic hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. - Himalaya, Integrity NR (Network Resource), and Integrity FT (Fault Tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. ). DYNASTY currently runs under any of the popular windowing environments, (Windows, 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. , Motif, etc.) and generates 100 percent native C code and SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , providing the highest level of compatibility and performance possible in all of Tandem's strategic computing environments. In addition, DYNASTY generates all the necessary code for using TUXEDO or Distributed Computing Environment See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks (DCE (1) (Distributed Computing Environment) Software from The Open Group that allows applications to be built across heterogeneous platforms in a network. DCE includes security, directory naming, time synchronization, file sharing, RPCs and multithreading services. ), or TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. as the standard means of communicating vath Himalaya and Integrity servers. The combination of DYNASTY and Tandem provides unique enterprise client/server benefits. DYNASTY applications will automatically inherit all of Tandem's fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , reliability, and continuous availability features, with no additional work required by the developer. In addition, DYNASTY provides Tandem developers an enterprise-class development solution that generates all of the Tandem specific as well as non-Tandem services. "Tandem's leadership in parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. and fault tolerance combined with Dynasty's leadership in enterprise-class client/server development makes a lot of sense. The combination enables customers to develop very large 3-tier client/server systems in a highly reliable, secure, and scalable environment," said Michael J. Lyons, founder, 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 Dynasty Technologies, Inc. "Customers need the development tools and hardware to target significantly larger client/server applications and this partnership gives them the solutions to do that." "Dynasty provides an intuitive, object-oriented, and target independent environment that enables application developers to capitalize on Tandem's massively parallel, continuously available execution environment without having to be burdened with the underlying technologies," said Suri Harish, Tandem's area product manager. "Our strategic relationship with Dynasty further extends the availability and accessibility of an open, state-of-the-art enterprise development tool for the popular Himalaya platform." DYNASTY's Support for Himalaya DYNASTY, running under Windows, Windows NT, Motif, etc., can be used to generate both application and database servers that can be deployed on Tandem's highly scalable Himalaya processing environment. DYNASTY will generate applications for the NonStop Kernel (NSK NSK Not Specified By Kind NSK North Side Kings (band) NSK Noril'sk (Russia) NSK Neue Slovenische Kunst (German: New Slovenian Art; art collective) ) OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. Personality, which takes advantage of all the NonStop Kernel's availability features and generates all the SQL needed to use Tandem's NonStop/SQL database. DYNASTY's support of both TUXEDO and DCE allows any client tool or application supporting either of these communication mechanisms to access the Himalaya server in a truly open environment. DYNASTY's Support for the Integrity Line DYNASTY supports all the standard 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). capabilities of both Integrity NR and Integrity FT. This includes the use of TUXEDO, DCE or TCP/IP communications. DYNASTY generates the SQL needed for Oracle and Sybase on Integrity NR, and Oracle on Integrity FT. Tandem Integrity users can take advantage of DYNASTY's capabilities to deploy clients, application servers, and database servers on both Integrity platforms. The support of TUXEDO, DCE, or TCP/IP as standard means of communicating enables not only DYNASTY-generated clients but also other clients supporting any of these communication mechanisms may access DYNASTY-generated servers in Integrity environments. DYNASTY support for Himalaya, including both TUXEDO and NonStop/SQL is currently in Beta. General availability is scheduled for Q1 1996. The general availability for Tandem Integrity is also scheduled for Ql 1996. About Dynasty Technologies DYNASTY is the industry's leading open, object-oriented, enterprise class client/server development environment. DYNASTY enables the rapid design, development, and evolution of distributed business objects. From a target independent specification, DYNASTY builds distributed client/server applications that are: 3-tier, partitioned, high perfonnanre 3GL code, scalable, and cross-platform. Dynasty Technologies Inc. was founded in 1991. Corporate headquarters is in Lisle, Illinois. International headquarters is in Paris, France. DYNASTY Version 2 began shipping in September, 1995. Dynasty is privately held and has invested over $27 million from major investors including: Bank America Ventures, Platinum Venture Partners, Austin Ventures, St. Paul Ventures, William Blair Venture Partners, Frontenac Ventures, and Marquette Venture Partners. -0- DYNASTY is a registered trademark of Dynasty Technologies Inc. Tandem, Himalaya and Integrity are trademarks of Tandem Computers Incorporated. CONTACT: Jen Costello FitzGerald Communications Inc. 617-494-9500 Internet: jennifer_costello@fitzcomm.com or John Treacy Dynasty Technologies, Inc. 708-769-8500 CompuServe: 75144,556 |
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