Ericsson Utvecklings AB Chooses Bristol's Wind/U as Cross Platform Development Solution.DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 1998--Ericsson (Nasdaq:ERICY) and Bristol Technology Inc. today announced that Ericsson licensed Bristol's Wind/U(R) cross-platform development software for future releases of 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). versions of its Element Management applications for the AXE (An X Editor) A text editor used with the X Window system. By adding widgets, aXe can be customized by the user. (tool) aXe - A text editor for the X Window System. No longer maintained. switching system and related telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. support products. Historically, Ericsson's main development environment for operational support systems is Unix. Ericsson -- AXE Research and Development have chosen NT as development environment for management applications. "The NT environment is growing rapidly compared to Unix and provides a broad range of development tools. Our applications are also required in the existing and more sophisticated centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. operational support systems, for this we needed to provide our tools in an UNIX environment," said Christer Fryxell, manager, of the Element Management Department at Ericsson, AXE Research and Development. "Wind/U enables us to stay in an NT development environment and provide our tools to UNIX based Refers to a Unix operating system. The operating system may comply with the UNIX specifications governed by The Open Group, such as Sun's Solaris, or it may be an operating system based on the architecture and principles of Unix, such as Linux. telecom management systems." "Wind/U provided an effective solution to port our tools to UNIX, without the need of a Unix development environment" added Fryxell. Phase one is expected to release Ericsson's WinFIOL product on UNIX this fall. WinFIOL is a command handler A software routine that performs a particular task. It often refers to a routine that "handles" an exception of some kind, such as an error, but it can refer to mainstream processes as well. The term is typically used in operating systems and other system software. that serves as a basic interface to the AXE I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output system. Future UNIX releases will include other element management tools. Bristol's Wind/U family of products enables software developers to use a single source code base for development on multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. , including Windows 95, 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. , UNIX, OpenVMS and OS/390. This results in shorter development cycles, lower software maintenance costs, and higher return on investment as applications move more quickly to market. "We are very pleased that Ericsson, a leading global telecommunications supplier, chose Wind/U for its cross-platform development solution," said Keith Blackwell, president of Bristol Technology. "This is testimony that Wind/U is not only the most robust and stable cross-platform tool, but the proven solution for enterprise applications." About Ericsson Ericsson's 100,000 employees are active in more than 130 countries. Their combined expertise in fixed and mobile networks, mobile phones and infocom systems makes Ericsson a world-leading supplier in telecommunications. Global information about Ericsson and its products is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ericsson.se About Bristol Technology Headquartered in Danbury, CT, Bristol Technology Inc. has a European subsidiary in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and a development center in Bangalore, India. Bristol develops, markets, and supports the Wind/U family of Windows and UNIX cross-platform development products. Founded in 1991, the company was listed in the 1997 Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. In addition to Wind/U, its products include HyperHelp(TM), software for creating UNIX-based on-line help systems with WinHelp functionality; Xprinter(TM), software for adding sophisticated printing capabilities to UNIX-based applications; and Jprinter(R), a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. network printing system for Java. For more information, please visit Bristol's home page: http://www.bristol.com (C) 1998 Bristol Technology Inc. Bristol Technology and Wind/U are registered trademarks of Bristol Technology Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Bristol Technology Inc. Meagahn D. Moody, 203/798-1007 MeagahnM@bristol.com |
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