Lotus Notes 4 applications support Solaris.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996--SunSoft, Inc., the information and communications infrastructure software company, announced expanded Lotus Business Partners support for the Solaris operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. with nine new 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. 4 applications being supported for Solaris on 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 platforms. Solaris is one of the most secure and scalable operating environments for Internet servers, network servers and high performance desktop systems. Lotus Notes 4 applications on Solaris software offer users a robust, scalable environment that allows companies to streamline business processes and work more effectively together over the network. Furthermore, Lotus Notes 4 is fully integrated with the World Wide Web, allowing users with either Notes clients or Web-browsers to benefit from a full-range of Notes groupware applications and work more effectively on the network. "Lotus Notes 4 Partner applications for the Solaris environment extends enterprise-strength networked computing to PC workgroups," said Mary Anderson Mary Anderson may refer to one of the following:
Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. capabilities for Solaris for enterprise computing." "Lotus Notes Release 4 gives users the power to develop custom applications, ranging from customer service to sales and account management, in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional development tools," said Steve Sayre, vice president, communications product marketing, Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). . "These Lotus Notes 4 applications available for Solaris demonstrate the important contribution of our Business Partner community to Notes as a cross-platform." Available now are the following nine Notes workgroup applications for Solaris: American Power Conversion American Power Conversion, (formerly NASDAQ: APCC) based in West Kingston, Rhode Island, is a maker of AC and DC-based back-up power products and services. APC is best known for their manufacture of uninterruptible power supplies, mostly used as a backup power system for (APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. ), West Kingston, RI, provides PowerChute plus for 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). which works with APC's uninterruptible power supplies to provide automatic, graceful shutdown of Lotus Notes and Solaris in the event of an extended power disturbance. Bedford Associates, Inc., Norwalk, CT, will provide its Sales Automation Plus application for Lotus Notes 4 for Solaris. Sales Automation Plus for Solaris offers enhanced performance with greater speed which reduces replication and database access time. BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, provides PATROL for Lotus Notes 4 on Solaris, a product which automates and centralizes the control of all critical elements in distributed application management including data, databases, servers and applications. Casahl Technology, Inc., Danville, CA, provides Replic-Action for Lotus Notes Release 4 on Solaris, a client/server based replication and migration tool. EnviroNet, Hartland, WI, provides EnviroNet, a Notes network for government and industry that allows bidding of recycled materials, pollution credits, markets and products. GWI GWI Great Works Internet GWI Guyana Water Inc GWI General Wage Increase GWI Grinding Wheel Institute GWI Games Workshop Interactive GWI Greenhouse Warming Index GWI Greenwood International, Inc. Software, Vancouver, WA, offers Help! v4, a help desk automation tool that leverages the graphical interface and multiplatform capabilities of Notes Release 4. IntellAgent Control Corporation, Dallas, TX, offers IntellAgent Control a Lotus Notes integrated sales, marketing, customer service system for account and opportunity management. MFJ MFJ Married Filing Jointly MFJ Modified Final Judgment MFJ Martin F. Jue (founder of MFJ Enterprises, Inc.) MFJ Modified of Final Judgment MFJ Meta Font Job International, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY, provides OverQuota, a sales automation product based on Notes Release 4, which lets companies manage their sales throughout the extended enterprise. Synetics Corporation, Wakefield, MA, offers Sales Colleague, a Lotus Notes application for Solaris providing a set of database templates for account management and forecasting. SunSoft, Inc. is the leading provider of information and communications infrastructure software. SunSoft's products -- designed for information technology professionals, systems integrators, value added resellers and computer manufacturers -- are used to deliver network, Internet, and desktop computing solutions that improve a company's internal and customer communications and lets them quickly adapt to business change. SunSoft products are distributed through computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. SunSoft is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more information, contact SunSoft on the Internet at http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/. With annual revenues of $6 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc., provides solutions that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX industry. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, SunSoft, the SunSoft logo and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. PowerChute is a registered trademark of American Power Conversion. EnviroNet is a trademark of EnviroNet. CONTACT: SunSoft, Inc. Judy Zimbelman, 415/336-5091 judy.zimbelman@eng.sun.com or GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter GCI Getty Conservation Institute GCI Global Commerce Initiative GCI Green Cross International (non-profit international environmental organization) GCI Growth Competitiveness Index GCI Great Cities Institute San Francisco Greg Berardi, 415/974-6200 6637802@mcimail.com |
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