Sterling Software focuses on AS/400 environment with STAR:Flashpoint Product.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1996--The Desktop Integration Division of Sterling Software, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SSW SSW abbr. south-southwest Noun 1. SSW - the compass point midway between south and southwest sou'-sou'-west, south southwest ) today announced availability of its STAR:Flashpoint client/server integration tool specifically targeted at the AS/400 environment, called STAR:Flashpoint for the AS/400. New product features focus on the specific requirement of the AS/400 including pop-up window pop-up window n (Comput) → Popup-Fenster nt support, subfile support, new emulator support, and 25th-line support added to the integration strengths of market leading STAR:Flashpoint product. "At Sterling Software, we have always provided a solution supporting the AS/400 environment," said Lisa Campbell, vice president of marketing. "With the delivery of STAR:Flashpoint for the AS/400, we have added new features to specifically address the unique needs of the AS/400. While competing products simply take character-based screens and create graphical ones, STAR:Flashpoint for the AS/400 provides the ability to integrate multiple AS/400 applications with your desktop systems through 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 while supporting pop-up windows, cursor positioning, subfiles, and text localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. ." The Desktop Integration Division's decision to address the AS/400 environment stems from the system's widespread use. The AS/400 is the world's most popular business computing system, with more than 360,000 systems installed worldwide. More than 20,000 of the installed systems are running client/server applications today. "The AS/400 has a significant market share in 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. , but the market is especially large in Europe and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ," said Campbell. "One of Sterling Software's greatest strengths is our international sales and distribution arm. So we expect this product to do well in the international marketplace as well as in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ." The Desktop Integration Division has completely automated the pop-up window process in STAR:Flashpoint. Within the AS/400 environment, STAR:Play (STAR:Flashpoint's deployment component) automatically recognizes a pop-up border and displays the AS/400 pop-up window in a modal Windows In user interface design, a modal window (often called modal dialog because the window is almost always used to display a dialog box) is a child window which requires the user to interact with it before they can return to operating the parent application. pop-up panel. Users can still view the entire parent Window by moving the pop-up window which is especially useful when using AS/400 help. Support for several new Windows emulators has been added, including IBM's ClientAccess for Windoes, Wall Data's Rumba/400 for Windows, IBM's PC5250 for Windows, Netsoft's Elite/400 for Windows and WRQ's Reflections/400 for Windows. STAR:Flashpoint for the AS/400 supports integration of AS/400 applications with relational databases and desktop applications like Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. or Excel. In addition, the product supports AS/400 subfiles, regions of the screen in which multiple pages of information can be viewed and used. STAR:Flashpoint for the AS/400 also supports text localization. Users can take their STAR:Flashpoint application, extract the text, translate it and deploy it in different languages. With this feature, applications are easily deployed worldwide in the local language of the end user. "Not only do STAR:Flashpoint for the AS/400 users reap the benefits of these new features they also benefit from the core product's advanced integration functionality," said Bart Kalkstein, product manager. "With this solution, our AS/400 customers can now take full advantage of their current client/server and host applications as they integrate them onto the desktop with a graphical interface See GUI. ." STAR:Flashpoint for the AS/400 is currently available. Its STAR:Develop/400 component is priced at $5995 per developer and STAR:Play/400 at $300 per user. A starter kit is priced at $7495 which includes one STAR:Develop/400 and 10 STAR:Play/400. Based in Redwood Shores, Calif., Sterling Software's Desktop Integration Division is committed to the integration of host, server, and desktop systems throughout the enterprise. The division develops, markets and supports client/server integration tools that enhance end-user productivity while allowing companies to leverage their investment in legacy systems. Sterling Software and its subsidiaries provide software products and services worldwide for electronic commerce, applications management and systems management, as well as highly technical professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for the federal government. Sterling Software, with its headquarters in Dallas, is one of the ten largest software companies in the world with 3,600 employees, 75 offices worldwide and an installed base of almost 40,000 customer sites in over 60 countries. CONTACT: Sterling Software, Inc. Lisa Campbell, 415/802-7100 lisa_campbell@redwood-city.sterling.com or Baron, McDonald & Wells Donna Faulkner, 770/492-0373 dfaulkner@bmwpr.com |
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