ObjectShare's VisualWorks Distributed With Red Hat's Linux 6.0 Release; VisualWorks for Linux 3.1 Included in Red Hat's Latest Linux Distribution.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 1999-- ObjectShare (Nasdaq:OBJS) a leading provider of component based solutions for Internet computing and Red Hat(R) Software Inc., based in Durham, N.C., the market leading Linux developer and service provider Thursday announced the availability of VisualWorks Non-commercial 3.1 on the Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. 6.0 application CD. The recent partnership between the two companies provides an opportunity to bridge the needs of the Linux community for a world-class, cross platform development environment for the Enterprise. "This joint effort to provide VisualWorks Non-commercial 3.1 with the Red Hat Linux 6.0 distribution is an exciting beginning," said Brenda Friederich, VisualWorks product marketing manager. "VisualWorks is the first enterprise development environment available for Linux that will enable the Linux developer to build applications that can leverage the reliability of Linux in delivering true mission critical applications in their business." "Enterprise customers are turning to Red Hat Linux as the resource for premier Linux distributions  The external links in this article or section may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. , service and support," said Paul McNamara, vice president of strategic relationships at Red Hat. "VisualWorks delivers the developer productivity and reliability that Linux users demand with the ability to deploy across eleven platforms without the need to change or rewrite code. We expect the combination of VisualWorks and Linux to be a very powerful partnership for the enterprise." 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. market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC), Linux was the fastest-growing server 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. in 1998, growing more than 212 percent in that year alone and capturing more than 17 percent of all server operating system See network operating system. shipments. Today, Linux boasts more than 10 million users worldwide. VisualWorks non-commercial version is available from the ObjectShare Web site at www.objectshare.com/vwnc. Available since September, 1998, VisualWorks has nearly 15,000 downloads to date for both Windows and Linux versions. ObjectShare will show VisualWorks 3.1 for Linux this week at the 5th Annual Linux Expo, in Raleigh, N.C. Stop by booth number 135 to pick up your copy of VisualWorks for Linux, non-commercial. For more information regarding Linux Expo go to www.linuxexpo.org. ObjectShare will also be participating in the RedHat Revolution Road Tour '99, for more details go to www.redhat.com. ObjectShare is offering a free Web Workshop, VisualWorks for Linux, June 9, 1999. For more details regarding this and other Web Workshops offered by ObjectShare, visit the company's Web site at www.objectshare.com or call Rodney Detrick at 949/930-6305. About VisualWorks VisualWorks is an object-oriented software application development environment to assist software developers in building state-of-the-art network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. business applications. The program includes a suite of software development tools, such as the ObjectLens for bridging between relational databases and objects, a graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to painter and the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. compliant VisualWorks Smalltalk language. VisualWorks-created applications are instantly portable across eleven platforms including Windows, Macintosh and most UNIX systems delivering true write once, deploy anywhere development since 1986. Used by more than fifty percent of the Fortune 100, VisualWorks features one of the industries most stable and well-known class libraries that serves as the original resource for many of popular "design patterns." VisualWorks supports true incremental application development, and allows for easy system customization. Delivered VisualWorks applications are truly dynamic providing unprecedented competitive advantage to IT organizations, allowing developers to rapidly adapt to change of business rules without the need to rebuild and re-deploy the entire system. The VisualWorks product line includes a number of complementary products that add advanced features, web development capabilities, CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global and COM integration. About ObjectShare Inc. Founded in 1983, ObjectShare is a provider of object-oriented software solutions for network computing. With complete support for industry standards using Smalltalk or Java, the company offers its development environments, frameworks, along with consulting, education and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services worldwide. ObjectShare's Smalltalk products originated the first component development tools utilizing just-in-time (JIT JIT - dynamic translation ) compilers, virtual machine technology and an environment that is 100 percent object-oriented. With headquarters in Irvine, the company also maintains offices in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For more information about ObjectShare, call 800/973-4777 or 949/833-1122. ObjectShare's World Wide Web address (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. ) is http://www.objectshare.com. Note to Editors: VisualWorks, Distributed Smalltalk, VisualWave, OpenTalk, StORE, PARTS and Visual Smalltalk are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ObjectShare Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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