Metro Link Porting X Window System Products for the IA-64 Linux and Monterey Operating Systems Built on Intel's New Itanium Processor.Business Editors/High Tech Writers FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000 Metro Link Inc. (http://www.metrolink.com), the leader in graphical display software, is porting its X Window System products for use on Intel's new IA-64 Itanium processor. This software will be ported to the IA-64 Linux and Monterey operating systems initially, with other operating systems to follow. Metro Link's commercial-grade X server, Motif, and OpenGL products will allow users of high-powered graphics programs to work in a free-software Linux environment rather than in proprietary environments. This support also opens up new opportunities for the many Linux distributors, who have so far focused on the desktop market. The extra power of the Itanium processor brings in customers of high-end workstations, such as those designing graphics animation, architectural renderings and scientific visualization. With the horsepower of Intel's IA-64 processor and Metro Link's X Window System products, developers will be able to accomplish more, and at a less expensive price. "IA-64 Linux will infiltrate the high-end workstation market and revolutionize it," said Morgan Von Essen, Metro Link President and 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. . "Metro Link's software code has long been 64-bit clean, so we anticipate no problems in porting our products to the Itanium processor. We look forward to supporting this fabulous new architecture." Several operating systems have already been ported to pre-production Itanium systems, including IA-64 Linux, Monterey, Novell Modesto, 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. , and 64-bit Windows 2000. Metro Link's X Window System products include Metro-X (an enhanced X server replacement), Metro Motif Complete! (a unique package of three Motif versions that enables all three versions to co-exist on a single machine), Metro Media (video-in-a-window and MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). playback under X), and Metro Extreme 3D (a hardware-accelerated implementation of OpenGL). ABOUT METRO LINK Metro Link Inc., a software development company founded in 1989, specializes in graphics display technology solutions for embedded, Linux, and UNIX operating systems. In addition to X Window System products, Metro Link offers Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) enabled protocol stacks. X.Org, the worldwide X Window System consortium, has contracted with Metro Link to maintain and enhance the X Window System source code. Metro Link's products are used by Lucent, Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ), Intel, IBM (Nasdaq:IBM), Compaq, Sun (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), Hewlett Packard, VA Linux, and others in such projects as the Boeing 777, the Space Shuttle, 767 AWACS AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) Mobile, long-range radar surveillance-and-control centre for air defense. Used by the U.S. Air Force since 1977, AWACS is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft, with its main radar antenna affixed to a rotating dome. , the Acuson Computed Sonography sonography: see ultrasound System, and many other applications that demand proven mission-critical reliability. Metro Link and its products are trademarked. Third-party marks and brands are property of their respective holders. |
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