Smalltalk Systems licenses ParcPlace-Digitalk's WindowBuilder products for VisualAge.PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1997--Smalltalk Systems announced today an exclusive licensing agreement with ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. for the popular WindowBuilder products for IBM's VisualAge (VA) Smalltalk. Under the agreement, Smalltalk Systems will further develop, market, and support the WindowBuilder Visual Age product line. The company announced that it is in the final stage of completing updates to VisualAge 4.0 for the licensed products and will announce pricing and availability shortly. Richard Dym, Sr. Vice President of Marketing at ParcPlace stated, "ParcPlace is pleased to work with Smalltalk Systems. As a result of this agreement, Smalltalk Systems is able to offer IBM VisualAge VisualAge was the name of a family of computer integrated development environments from IBM, which included support for a few popular (and not so popular) computer programming languages. Early history VisualAge was born in the IBM development lab in Cary, North Carolina. customers one of the most powerful Smalltalk 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. building tools on the market. WindowBuilder is an excellent product and we at ParcPlace will continue to support and sell WindowBuilder to our own ParcPlace VisualSmalltalk Enterprise (VSE See DOS/VSE. VSE - Virtual Storage Extended ) customers." "We're very excited about our first entry into the Smalltalk product market and about our new relationship with ParcPlace. We intend to aggressively evolve the WindowBuilder VA product line and keep it at the forefront of Smalltalk GUI builders Visual programming software that lets a user build a graphical user interface by dragging and dropping elements from a toolbar onto the screen. It may be a stand-alone program or part of an application development system or client/server development system. ," said Eric Clayberg, President of Smalltalk Systems. Products included in this exclusive licensing agreement are: -- WindowBuilder Pro, the most powerful Smalltalk GUI building tool on the market. -- VA Assist, a powerful visual editing add-on for the VA Composition Editor. -- WidgetKit/Professional, a powerful set of spreadsheets, list boxes, table editors, and graphic viewers. -- WidgetKit/Business Graphics, which provides powerful 2-D and 3-D graphing capabilities for VA Smalltalk. Smalltalk Systems Smalltalk Systems (StS) is dedicated to providing the best in products and services for the Smalltalk programmer (1) A hardware device used to customize a programmable logic chip such as a PAL, GAL, EPROM, etc. See PROM programmer. (2) A person who designs the logic for and writes the lines of codes of a computer program. and is the Smalltalk business unit of Instantiations, Inc. Instantiations is a multi-faceted corporation providing products, technology development, consulting, contract research, and other services in support of the successful commercial application of advanced software technology. Visit our websites at smalltalksystems.com and instantiations.com . ParcPlace ParcPlace is a leader in client/server/web application development tools. The company's mission is to help our customers build software that keeps pace with their business. ParcPlace's products support open computing See open system and open source. , portability, and industry standards for distributed and web-based enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. . The company also provides a comprehensive range of services, including customer support, training, on-site assistance, and consulting. With headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company maintains offices across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and internationally in France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom, and a network of distributors throughout the world. For more information, visit our web site at www.parcplace.com or call us at 1-800-759-7272 or 408/481-9090. -0- Smalltalk Systems and StS are trademarks of Instantiations, Inc. ParcPlace, Digitalk, WindowBuilder Pro, VA Assist, WidgetKit/Professional, WidgetKit/Business Graphics, and Visual Smalltalk An earlier application development environment for Smalltalk for Windows and OS/2 from the now-defunct ObjectShare, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA. It evolved out of the first commercial release of Smalltalk, known as Methods from Digitalk in 1983 (Digitalk and ParcPlace merged in 1995). (VSE) are trademarks of ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. VisualAge is a trademark of 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) Corp. CONTACT: Smalltalk Systems Eric Clayberg, 703/476-1314 eric_clayberg@smalltalksystems.com or ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. Carol Garnett, 408/773-7403 cgarnett@parcplace.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion