HELIOS to Support Windows 2000.HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1999--HELIOS Software GmbH announces support of Windows 2000 with its products HELIOS EtherShare, HELIOS EtherShare OPI (Open Prepress Interface) An extension to PostScript that provides color separations. It was developed by Aldus Corporation, which was later acquired by Adobe. , HELIOS PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. Handshake and HELIOS Print Preview. Today's Intel Pentium-based computers are getting significantly faster. With Microsoft's enhancements of the Windows NT virtual memory and networking performance, the upcoming Windows 2000 product will be ready to run HELIOS-based print server and PrePress products with outstanding performance. The HELIOS EtherShare networking products will use Windows 2000's built-in SFM SFM Sustainable Forest Management SFM Science Fiction Museum (Seattle) SFM Switch Fabric Module (Cisco Systems) SFM Scanning Force Microscope SFM Société Française de Microbiologie AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. and CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. server to support Macintosh and Windows clients. EtherShare will use its well-known print spooling that includes a font server, printer drivers, and LPD-compatible spooling with remote administration. The HELIOS EtherShare OPI, HELIOS PDF Handshake and HELIOS Print Preview products for Windows 2000 will support exactly the same features as the shipping versions of HELIOS products for UNIX-based systems. HELIOS Software will disclose more details regarding its Windows 2000-based products later this year. HELIOS Software supports the UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services on all major RISC-CPU vendors and Linux/Pentium based workstations and servers with its products. To allow customers to use the HELIOS Software products on Pentium-based computers immediately, customers can start with HELIOS Software products running on Linux and switch free-of-charge to Windows 2000 when it is appropriate. Brief Q & A Q: Will HELIOS Software products run on Windows NT 4? A: No, Windows NT 4 has performance limitations, multiple server applications cannot run reliably. Q: What clients are supported with HELIOS Software products on Windows 2000? A: Any Windows 95, 98, NT 4 and 2000 client, any Macintosh System 7 or 8 based client and Unix based clients. Smart Ideas for Better Networking HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers from Apple Computer, Data General, Compaq (Digital), HP, 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) , Intel (Pentium), Motorola, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , and Sun, providing reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients. Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry. For U.S.-based sales information, contact: European Mikrograf Corporation, HELIOS Software GmbH.'s U.S. distributor, located at 269 Mt. Hermon Road, Suite 100, Scotts Valley, CA 95066; 831-461-6061 (voice); 831-461-6056 (fax); Internet: info@ugraf.com, http://www.ugraf.com. Editorial Contacts: HELIOS Software GmbH attn: marketing, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany fax +49 5131-70-93-25; Internet: marketing@helios.de; or by World-Wide-Web access at http://www.helios.com. |
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