Imperial Software Technology and Sun extend software development alliance for three years; IST ships X-designer: Java edition.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--Imperial Software Technology and SunSoft, Inc., a business unit of 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. , Inc., today announced a three-year agreement to closely cooperate on product development. The agreement extends the terms of IST's current contract with Sun under which IST's award-winning GUI builder Visual programming software that lets a user build a graphical user interface by dragging and dropping elements from a toolbar onto the screen. It may be a stand-alone program or part of an application development system or client/server development system. , X-Designer(R), has been integrated into SunSoft's Visual WorkShop(TM) C++ development suite. Under the terms of the new agreement, IST's X-Designer: Java Edition, which gives developers a powerful migration path to Java for Motif interfaces, will be integrated into Sun's Visual WorkShop and Java(TM) WorkShop(TM). IST will also integrate Visaj(TM), IST's new Java application builder, into Sun's Java WorkShop. Visaj, which uses the JavaBeans(TM) component architecture, is being introduced by IST at Software Development West '97. "The benefits of our relationship with IST have exceeded our expectations," said Larry Weber, vice president, WorkShop Products, a SunSoft business unit of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Extending the relationship with IST allows SunSoft Visual Workshop C++ customers to experience the value of this relationship." Derek Lambert, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of IST, said "This new agreement clearly demonstrates Sun's confidence in IST's people, technology, and future products. We're delighted that Sun has chosen to extend its relationship with us." X-Designer: Java Edition is Now Shipping IST also announced today that X-Designer: Java Edition (version 4.6) -- the only tool that gives developers a powerful migration path to Java for Motif interfaces -- is now shipping worldwide. X-Designer: Java Edition has a Java code generator in addition to its X/Motif and Microsoft Windows code generators. This enables developers to use the same interface-building tool to generate code for Motif, Windows and Java. Applications that are currently deployed internally may become Web-enabled client-server Intranet applications, utilizing "thin-client" technology, without compromising today's operational demands. In addition, Java interfaces built with X-Designer: Java Edition may be ported back to Motif, giving two-way interface portability. Real-Time Innovations, which makes tools for programming and debugging real-time applications, has been an X-Designer customer for a number of years. "We have been quite pleased with X-Designer so far, and in fact, are now using X-Designer: Java Edition to migrate some of our products over to Java," said Sherrie Albrecht, a software engineer at RTI RTI - Return from interrupt . "I've found it to be a professional-level tool that has been extremely effective for building Motif and Java GUIs, and made the migration from Motif to Java for our GUIs easy and fast." Price, Availability, and Platforms Supported X-Designer: Java Edition, will remain at the current U.S. list price of $3,500 for a single-user license, including the first year's maintenance and upgrades. Existing users of X-Designer with a current support contract will receive X-Designer: Java Edition without further charge. X-Designer: Java Edition is available on the following platforms: Sun Solaris 2.4 (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), SunOS 4.1.3, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. 9.07, Silicon Graphics IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. System V Rel. 5.3, 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. 4.1, SCO Open Desktop See SCO OpenServer. 5 and Digital UNIX 3.2. For more information on obtaining X-Designer, contact sales@ist.co.uk, or call the U.S. sales office at 415/688-0200. Imperial Software Technology Founded in 1982 by members of the University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies Imperial College, IST is a software engineering company recognized internationally for its exceptional technology. Its flagship product, the GUI builder X-Designer, is installed at leading corporations throughout the world including Motorola, which uses X-Designer through a worldwide corporate license, and NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , which holds multiple site licenses. IST also provides workbench technology to OEMs and is a leader in the development of advanced visual programming tools. The company is based in Reading, England, and Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. . For further information, visit IST at http://www.ist.co.uk . -0- Note to Editors: X-Designer is a registered trademark and IST and the IST logo are trademarks of Imperial Software Technology Limited. Visaj is a trademark of Pacific Imperial Incorporated. Visual WorkShop, Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other companies, products and service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Imperial Software Technology Derek Lambert, +44 118 958 7055 derek@ist.co.uk http://www.ist.co.uk or Martin Communications Andrea Martin, 415/668-2678 martcom@aol.com |
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