Revelation Technologies ships Revelation NetWare loadable module for OpenInsight; Novell-certified NLM doubles the performance of existing OpenInsight applications.STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 1995--Revelation Technologies today announced the availability of the Revelation NLM Software that runs in a NetWare server. Although NetWare servers store DOS and Windows applications, they do not execute them. All programs that run in a NetWare server must be compiled into the NLM format. They are typically written in C and use Novell's libraries. (NetWare Loadable Module See NLM. ). This NLM improves performance and reduces network errors for OpenInsight applications running on Novell NetWare (operating system, networking) Novell NetWare - Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. 3 or NetWare 4 networks. Test sites have reported 20-40 percent performance improvements on lightly loaded networks; 50-80 percent performance improvements on heavily loaded networks; and 100 percent or more performance improvements on wide area networks. Pre-certification versions of the Revelation NLM have been shipping since December 1994. The current release has been officially certified by Novell Inc. 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. Revelation's President James Acquaviva, Revelation NLM is an undisputed success. "We're delighted with the increased speed that our customers are reporting to us," he said. "The fact that these speed improvements are simple and dramatic has been widely embraced by our customer community." "NetWare continues to be the price/performance platform of choice for applications development for Windows clients," said William Mason There have been several notable people named William Mason, including (sorted by birthdate):
Network "Traffic Director" Revelation NLM consists of two components: a file server component and a workstation component. To update an existing OpenInsight application, the developer simply installs the file server component on the OpenInsight file server, then installs the workstation component on each client accessing the file server. No modification at all is made in the existing application. Revelation NLM reduces network traffic by using NetWare network operating system An operating system that is designed for network use. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ran under the OS; for example, LAN Server required OS/2, and LANtastic required DOS. services to access and process data on the file server. This single point of access and control provides a higher level of data integrity that cannot be achieved in non-NLM environments. In addition, the needs to coordinate access between workstations, and to process requests normally controlled at the workstation, are eliminated. The results are significantly less network traffic and greater data integrity. Also Works with Advanced Revelation A DOS application development system from Revelation Software, Inc., Westwood, NJ (www.revelation.com). It includes the R/BASIC programming language and supports SQL, DB2, Oracle and other databases. The Windows counterpart is OpenInsight for Workgroups and uses the BASIC+ language. Revelation NLM has also been tested and certified to work with applications created with Advanced Revelation, the company's DOS-based development tools. For Martin's Famous Pastries, of Chambersburg, Penn., Revelation NLM brought immediate and dramatic improvement. "We saw an immediate tripling of speed for portions of our applications," said John Wilcox For the former Texan politician, please see John Allen Wilcox. John Wilcox (born August 16, 1940) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was born in Newton Abbot. , director of MIS. "All we really has to do was install the Revelation NLM software. It took a few minutes and the result was outstanding." Pricing, Availability, and System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Revelation NLM is available now and is priced at $1,495 per server. It requires Novell NetWare 3.x or 4.x and enhances the performance of applications built with OpenInsight 2.5 or later and Advanced Revelation 3.1 or later. Revelation Technologies Revelation Technologies, founded in 1987, is a leading developer of repository-based application development tools for workgroup computing and client/server architectures An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. . The company's products, among the first to allow scalable network application development and deployment, enable business application developers to write applications that operate without modification on remote laptops, file-sharing and peer-to-peer networks (1) A network of computers configured to allow certain files and folders to be shared with everyone or with selected users. Peer-to-peer networks are quite common in small offices that do not use a dedicated file server. , and client/server configurations. There are more than one million licensed users of Revelation products. The company's headquarters are in Stamford, Conn. with a European subsidiary in the United Kingdom. CONTACT: Revelation Technologies Kurt Baker, 203/973-1013 or Neva Group Michael Dowding, Sarah Sherman, 617/441-4000, x233 |
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