OMG names OpenDoc industry standard; IBM announces OpenDoc for Windows delivery schedules Justsystem joins growing movement to OpenDoc.BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 1996--At a press conference today, the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ) announced the adoption of OpenDoc(b) technology as an industry standard, laying the groundwork for an open, extensible marketplace for component software. 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) , one of the companies that has led the multiplatform development of OpenDoc, detailed delivery plans for OpenDoc for Windows(b) NT(b) and Windows 95. IBM also announced that Justsystem Corporation, Japan's leading producer of Japanese-language desktop software, will port its office automation software to OpenDoc for Windows. OpenDoc, OMG's new distributed document component facility (DDCF DDCF Doris Duke Charitable Foundation DDCF Distributed Document Component Facility ), is a robust architecture for creating component software that can be shared and customized across heterogeneous environments. OpenDoc's component-based integrated structure allows developers and end-users to build higher quality applications faster, with reduced costs. OpenDoc components can support and interoperate with Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding See OLE. (operating system) Object Linking and Embedding - (OLE) A distributed object system and protocol from Microsoft, also used on the Acorn Archimedes. OLE allows an editor to "farm out" part of a document to another editor and then reimport it. (OLE)(b) objects, while providing full cross-platform and distribution capabilities to component software. "OMG's adoption of OpenDoc as a standard will bring industry uniformity to building distributed software components and give more developers the ability to tap into the power of OpenDoc," said Steve Mills For the character in the "Shortland Street"" TV programme, see . Steve Mills (born Portsmouth, 9 December 1953, died Southampton, 1 August 1988) was a professional footballer with Southampton F.C. who career was cut short by a serious car accident and died of leukemia aged 34. , general manager, IBM Software Solutions Division. "For IBM, it represents a major step toward our vision of genuinely transparent network An all-optical network from end to end that may exist in the future. When the electrical component is eliminated, such networks add their own complexity. For example, due to switching, the distance a light signal travels one day may be different the next time. computing." OpenDoc for Windows Broadens Platform Choices IBM will begin shipping beta versions of OpenDoc for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (b) and Windows 95 in June 1996, and general availability will follow in the fourth quarter. The first phase of the OpenDoc for Windows delivery schedule has begun with the distribution of alpha-level developer toolkits to more than 600 developers. In addition to the new Windows versions See Windows. , IBM has made OpenDoc for OS/2 Warp(a) Version 3.0 generally available and is shipping beta versions of OpenDoc for AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (a). General availability of OpenDoc for AIX is planned for the third quarter of this year. OpenDoc's highly efficient facility for distributing objects, the System Object Model (SOM)(a), is also available on IBM's MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. (a) enterprise operating system and is in beta on the OS/400(a) system, providing OpenDoc resources to enterprise customers. OpenDoc for Mac OS(b) is also generally available from Apple Computer, Inc. Through a demonstration of commerce on the Internet, IBM showed OpenDoc's power and flexibility in building collaborative applications that link customers and suppliers in cross-platform environments. The demonstration illustrated pre-built JAVA(b) applets obtained from the Internet seamlessly integrated into an OpenDoc application collaborating across OS/2, AIX, and Windows NT operating systems. Justsystem Corp. Joins Growing ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Momentum Justsystem, Japan's largest software vendor and the developer of Ichitaro(b), the world's leading Japanese-language word processor, announced plans to port its office automation software to OpenDoc for Windows. "With OpenDoc, we can deliver office automation functions to our customers with a uniquely 'Just' flavor," said Kazunori Ukigawa, president and chief executive officer, Justsystem Corporation. "OpenDoc will be a key technology in our future products." With worldwide momentum growing, a number of independent software vendors (ISVs) who have adopted OpenDoc in their development efforts were on hand at the OMG event, including: o Bear River Associates o Cirrus Technology o ClearSoft AG o DST Systems, Inc. o MicroRim o Peripheral Vision peripheral vision n. Vision produced by light rays falling on areas of the retina beyond the macula. Also called indirect vision. Peripheral vision o Secant Technologies o SSG SSG abbr. staff sergeant o SunDial Systems o TruSpectra o Voice Pilot Technology Club OpenDoc, the online resource for code developed by IBM, news, tips and information on OpenDoc, has more than 1800 members enrolled worldwide. OpenDoc code can be obtained free of charge through Club OpenDoc at http://www.software.ibm.com/clubopendoc. More About IBM IBM, the world's largest software provider, creates, develops and manufactures the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics. IBM's Software Solutions Division provides data management, application development and workgroup solutions for mission-critical applications on personal computers, workstations, LANs and host systems. For additional information regarding IBM software, visit the IBM Software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com. -0- (a) Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. (b) Products or companies mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder. CONTACT: IBM Media Relations Theo Chisholm, 914/766-1180 Internet: theoc@vnet.ibm.com or Brodeur & Partners Inc. for IBM Julie Most, 617/622-2869 Internet: jmost@brodeur.com |
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