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Mainsoft extends availability of Visual MainWin 5 to twelve Unix platforms.


Mainsoft Corporation has announced it will significantly broaden the availability of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation.  Visual MainWin 5, by adding seven new Unix operating systems 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
 to its list of supported platforms. Mainsoft will deliver all of the new platforms by June 1, 2003.

"Our latest product, Visual MainWin 5, was designed from the ground up with the Enterprise in mind," said Philippe Cohen cohen
 or kohen

(Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male.
, Vice President of Product Development for Mainsoft Corporation. "Having Visual MainWin 5 available on twelve platforms empowers our customers to extend the reach of their Windows applications deeper than ever before into the multi-platform Enterprise."

Visual MainWin 5 was lunched in Q4 2002 on five platforms: Solaris 8, 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.
 11.00 and 11.11, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families.  5.1 and Linux 7.3. It attracted considerable market and enterprise-software vendor interest by combining enhanced performance and scalability, with proven robustness for non-stop operation. The addition of Solaris 9, 2.6, 2.7, HP-UX 11.22, AIX 5.2, 4.3.3, and Linux 8.0, enables many Mainsoft customers to deliver the Visual MainWin 5 based solutions they've been developing.

Mainsoft Corporation, the software porting company, enables businesses to develop applications once on Windows and rapidly deploy them to multiple Unix environments. Since 1993, the world's largest independent software vendors and Fortune 1000 IT departments have used Mainsoft to port more than $1 billion in software. Mainsoft is headquartered in San Jose San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
, Calif. and has offices in Chicago, London and Israel.
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Date:Mar 17, 2003
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