EIS Computers Offers New Open Source Solaris CD-ROM For Only $79; 275 Feature-Rich Application Packages, Install in Under One Minute.CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1998--EIS Computers, manufacturer of Solaris UltraSPARC and Pentium-II hardware and software solutions, today announced the availability online of its comprehensive collection of Open Source software, entitled "The Solaris Companion", which includes more than 275 widely used applications, precompiled for Solaris SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Intel, and bundled with full source code and a browser-based installation utility. The Solaris Companion enables programmers and systems administrators to accomplish in less than one minute what normally takes several days. To download, compile, install or remove publicly available sources from various locations on the Internet is a time-consuming process. The Solaris Companion's packages install quickly without disturbing other packages installed on the machine, and improves reliability by eliminating the debugging time typically required in self-compiled applications. The pre-compiled, binary/source format Solaris Companion includes 87 GNU gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. Free Software applications, emacs, Apache web server See Apache. , Netscape browser See Netscape. , Perl interpreter, XFree86 X-windows server, networking tools traceroute and BIND, security tools ssh, TCP-Wrappers and Cops, plus languages, shells, graphics utilities, games, and many other applications. "We've made our 1998 release even more robust by putting a browser-based management tool on the CD. Users can browse the contents of the Solaris Companion using the included Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. , then install packages at the click of a mouse--it's fast, easy and smart. The same browsing tool is also available on our website to search the CD contents before you buy," says David Van Beveren, EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. President. EIS is making the Solaris Companion available for pre-ordering today on its e-commerce site, the Solaris WebStore (http://www.eis.com/store.html), at a price of $79, and will bundle the CDROM See CD-ROM. with its Fusion UltraSPARC and VerteX Intel Solaris servers and workstations. EIS has licensed the Summertime-98 product from Micromata, GmbH, Kassel, Germany, and repackaged as separate SPARC and Intel versions, with a different pricing model, and added the browser-based installation mechanism. For registered users of the Summertime-97 CDROM, the price is $45. Founded in 1994, EIS Computers is an original equipment manufacturer that produces and markets high-performance computer systems which provide resellers, integrators, ISPs and small to mid-size businesses with a streamlined way to acquire Solaris-UltraSPARC or Solaris-Intel based computing. EIS' Solaris-compatible workstations and servers use genuine Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Intel board-level products as the basis of their customized platforms. Offerings include the UltraSPARC-based Fusion Series and the Intel-based VerteX Series, both driven by Sun's Solaris operating system. EIS also provides custom hardware and software integration services, and a wide range of off-the-shelf applications and utility software packages, available separately through EIS' Solaris WebStore. EIS Computers (http://www.eis.com) can be reached as info@eis.com, or at 207 West Los Angeles
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