Eicon Technology and SCO shows off Lotus Notes net for the UNIX market.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 1995--Eicon Technology is teaming with Santa Cruz Operations (SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. ) to show a full 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. Frame Relay/X.25 network at Uniforum '95. This network will demonstrate Eicon Technology's ability to enable remote networking with SCO's ODT See SCO Open Desktop. ODT - Open Desktop Operating System running one of the latest groupware program applications in the 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). market, Lotus NOTES. The network will run on multiple Intel-based hardware platforms, with a variety of applications that include Notes-based accounting, financial and sales automation systems by Massachusetts-based Group Quest. "We are quite pleased to be mirroring SCO and Eicon Technology's successful European relationship in North and South America," says Brian Hairston, SCO worldwide strategic alliances executive. "With Eicon's remote networking solutions, our customers have the ability to extend the powerful capabilities of the SCO operating system across their entire enterprise." "Eicon Technology's open architectured, flexible approach to remote networking encourages partnering with industry leaders such as SCO and Lotus," says Blair Thomas, market development manager at Eicon Technology. "We are excited to team up and demonstrate how Eicon provides customers with dependable and secure remote communications within their corporate infrastructure." Founded in 1984, Eicon Technology is a worldwide provider of server and desktop integrated remote networking solutions. The company develops, markets and supports hardware and software allowing personal computers to access IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. networks and corporate internetworks for client/server location-independent applications. CONTACT: Eicon Technology Inc. Nan Miller, 214/239-3270, ext. 709 Fax: 214/239-3304 |
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