HP and Hitachi Announce Alliance to Develop Jointly X Terminal Solutions for Japanese Commercial Market.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1995-- Hewlett-Packard Company and Hitachi, Ltd. today announced they have formed an alliance to develop jointly X terminal products based on HP's ENVIZEX and ENTRIA X terminal lines and ENWARE X station software for the Japanese commercial market. The companies also will develop next-generation X terminals and pursue joint marketing efforts to promote the new X terminal solutions. Hitachi's commercial target customers for current and future X terminals include organizations in banking, finance, insurance, trading and education that need to upgrade or replace existing text-oriented terminals with GUI-based X terminals. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The X Business Group, a market-research firm based in Fremont, Calif., the commercial-terminal replacement market in Japan represents approximately 50,000 seats for 1995. The X Business Group also ranks Hitachi, Ltd. the fourth-largest mainframe hardware manufacturer in Japan. Hitachi currently provides HP with engineering and software technology of Font and Glyph A displayed or printed image. In typography, a glyph may be a single letter, an accent mark or a ligature. See grapheme. (character) glyph - An image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs. caching for faster display of 2-byte Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. code to customize the current X terminal product lines for the Japanese commercial market. Hitachi says it will sell the jointly developed X terminal products through its direct sales force and channel partners under Hitachi's brand name "ViewclientX." Hitachi's ViewclientX family will operate 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 Hitachi's 3050RX workstations and 3500 server systems. The HP ENVIZEX X terminal family is made up of two product lines: the 'a' Series and 'p' series. These X terminals are industry-leading, high-performance models that are ideal workstation companions in graphically demanding technical-application environments such as computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive and computer-aided manufacturing computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), a form of automation where computers communicate work instructions directly to the manufacturing machinery. The technology evolved from the numerically controlled machines of the 1950s, which were directed by a set of coded . The HP ENTRIA X terminal line is designed for high-end, business-critical application environments that require ease of use and seamless legacy-system access at a low cost, such as insurance and financial-services industries. HP will continue to sell its X terminal products primarily to technical-market customers in Japan through its own sales force and channel partners. Key application areas include mechanical design automation, electronic design automation and technical software development. "HP is working with Hitachi to strengthen its overall position in Japan's X terminal marketplace," said Dave Chornaby, general manager of HP's Panacom Automation Division. "By sharing research and development resources, HP can leverage Hitachi's leadership in the commercial areas and complement its own existing focus on the technical markets." "By teaming up with the world leader in X terminals, Hitachi can provide its Japanese commercial customers with an ideal client for various client/server configurations," said Chikahiko Izumi, general manager of Hitachi's Workstation Operation of Office Systems Division. Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's largest electronic and electric equipment manufacturers, with operations extending to computers, semiconductors, household appliances, power generating equipment and industrial machinery. Hitachi has more than 330,000 employees worldwide and its annual sales revenue amounted to $71.8 billion (U.S.) in its 1994 fiscal year. HP was the No. 1 ranked vendor in the worldwide X terminal market in 1994 for overall revenue and units shipped, capturing 25 percent of the market, according to The X Business Group. HP also was the leading supplier of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color X terminals for the fifth consecutive year. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. 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The expansible chamber consists of a leather bag with pleated sides. for HP Holly Zmetrovich, 617/252-0606 Ext. 255 HP Jim Barbagallo, 508/436-5049 Hitachi, Ltd. Masahiro Takahashi, +81-3-3258-2055 Fax: +81-3-3258-5480 |
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