OMNIS Technology to Showcase OMNIS Studio 2.4 At COMDEX/Spring 2000.Business/Technology Editors COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Spring 2000 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000 OMNIS OMNIS Organizational Modelling of Information Systems (systems approach to business modeling to create an information system) Technology Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on BB: OMNS OMNS Open Network Management System ) will feature its new 2.4 version of OMNIS Studio An application development environment for Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac from Raining Data Corporation, Irvine, CA (www.rainingdata.com). It includes its own database manager for local and laptop use, visual programming tools, and a 4GL. , a popular Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for sophisticated Web and client/server applications, at COMDEX//Spring 2000, held here at McCormick Place McCormick Place is an enormous exposition complex located in Chicago, Illinois. . The company will be presenting Omnis Studio April 17-20 at Booth, L-3082. Since its introduction less than one month ago, Omnis Studio 2.4 has received an enthusiastic reception from software developers, according to Jim According to Jim is an American situation comedy television series originally broadcast by ABC. The show premiered with little publicity in October 2001, following the surprise hit comedy My Wife and Kids. Dorst, the company's chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "We've had a five-fold increase in the number of downloads for product evaluation since mid-March," Dorst said. A major reason for the rising interest in OMNIS' 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. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dorst, is "the inclusion, in this latest enhancement, of an `Application Builder' wizard. The wizard allows prospective developers to quickly get a feel for the functionality and ease-of-use of the tool. It offers an intuitive learning environment which, coupled with tutorials and demonstration files available on our web site, provides a greatly improved initial experience and introduction to OMNIS Studio." A key attraction of Omnis Studio is the RAD tool's ability to bring multi-platform, data base application and development and delivery to Linux. In a recent product review of Omnis Studio, LinuxPlanet.com(TM), an online technology newsletter, gave Omnis Studio an overall rating of four stars, with a five- star rating for value (www.linuxplanet.com/linusplant/reviews/1710/1/). "With Microsoft Access and Visual Basic stuck on Windows and Borland's Kylix Linux tool still in the works, Omnis Studio stands out as the development tool which supports the three major platforms", the review stated. Distribution of OMNIS Studio to the Linux development community is receiving a significant boost through its inclusion in Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. Systems' eDesktop release of OpenLinux. Caldera (NASDAQ:CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ) currently includes a full evaluation copy of both OMNIS Studio and Omnis WebClient products in the domestic and international Caldera eDesktop distribution. The objective is to bring a significant number of existing OMNIS Studio-developed business applications to Caldera's Linux platform as well as to provide the Linux development community with additional business applications as these tools are adopted. OMNIS Studio is a high-performance visual Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for Linux. It provides a component-based environment for building GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. interfaces, e-commerce, database and server applications. Development and deployment of OMNIS Studio applications can occur simultaneously in Linux, Windows, and MacOS environments without changing the application. This portability is achieved because Omnis utilizes a highly optimized interpreter engine to execute the object-oriented application at runtime. OMNIS Studio applications support native data access to Oracle, Sybase, DB2/UDB, Informix and ODBC-compliant data sources including MySQL. The Omnis Web Client allows the developer to create thin client interfaces that utilize forms or a highly secure plug-in. Using OMNIS Studio can cut application development time by as much as 75% compared to 3GL environments (C++, Java) while allowing the developer to use objects developed in 3GL environments as components in Omnis applications. Support and training information for OMNIS Studio is available on the Omnis website at www.omnis.net. OMNIS is a registered trademark of OMNIS Software Limited, a subsidiary of OMNIS Technology Corporation. OMNIS Studio and OMNIS 7 are trademarks of OMNIS Technology Corporation. All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.omnis.net. 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The principal risk factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements in this news release are described in various reports and documents filed by OMNIS Technology Corporation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the Annual Report of OMNIS Technology Corporation on Form 10-KSB/A for the last fiscal year of the Company. The Company disclaims any responsibility to update or revise any forward-looking statement provided in this news release. |
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