Sun Announces Availability of Solaris OpenStep and Workshop OpenStep Beta; Meets Customer Demand For Operating System and Object-based Development Environment.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 1996--SunSoft, Inc., the Internet software company, announced today that it has delivered the beta release See beta version. of its Solaris(TM) OpenStep(TM) 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. and WorkShop(TM) OpenStep development environment products.These products are Solaris implementations of the open, portable object standard specification jointly created by SunSoft and NeXT Software, Inc. "Solaris OpenStep and WorkShop OpenStep are a marriage of two very promising things," said Alex B. Cone, first vice president of the Development Services Organization at Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "It provides a fabulous development environment on top of a widely-used operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. ." Any application written for Solaris OpenStep can be deployed on OpenStep for other platforms, he notes, and developing in the Solaris OpenStep environment allows the user to easily support a large variety of corporate networks. "Solaris OpenStep provides developers a mature, robust, field-tested environment for serious object-based application development," explained Steve MacKay, vice president and general manager of Solaris products. "Any application written using OpenStep is a full citizen in the Sun environment. That means you can simultaneously run today's 10,000 available Solaris applications, OpenStep applications, and Java applications on the same machine." The SunSoft OpenStep product line includes the Solaris OpenStep operating environment and the WorkShop OpenStep development environment. Solaris OpenStep applications co-exist with applications running in the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE (1) (Computer Desktop Encyclopedia) What you are reading at this very moment. See About this product. (2) (Common Desktop Environment) A user interface for desktop computing from The Open Group. ), Java(TM) programming language, OpenWindows(TM) user environment, Wabi(TM) API translation software and the Macintosh Application Environment The Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) was a software package introduced by Apple Computer in 1994 which allowed users of certain Unix-based computer workstations to run Apple Macintosh application software. (MAE (1) (Metropolitan Area Exchange) Originally known as Metropolitan Area Ethernets, MAEs are junction points on the Internet where data is exchanged between carriers. See IXP and NAP. ). Underlying these products is Solaris, the most scalable, reliable and secure enterprise and Internet/intranet operating environment for SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Intel platforms. WorkShop OpenStep is unparalleled for offering the most comprehensive, graphical programmer productivity tools for "snapping together" new applications from pre-built components. Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. expanded its product offering to the object community through its recent acquisition of Lighthouse Design Lighthouse Design Ltd. was an American software company that operated from 1989 to 1996. Lighthouse developed software for NeXT computers running the NeXTSTEP operating system. , Inc., the largest and most successful independent systems vendor in the OpenStep market. "The OpenStep initiative is now a reality," said Mitch Mandich, vice president of worldwide sales, NeXT Software. "We are pleased to have SunSoft embrace our applications development technology for the Enterprise and the Internet. By completing the joint initiative, we are making OpenStep available to the mainstream, object-oriented application development market." The OpenStep specification is based on NeXT's object-oriented application layer found in NEXTSTEP. The Solaris OpenStep and WorkShop OpenStep products for SPARC are scheduled to ship in late Q3 of 1996. In order to offer customers complete freedom in selecting client/desktop environments, the SunSoft OpenStep product line will Ne delivered separately from the Solaris NEO(TM) object product offering. OpenStep is compatible with the currently shipping NEO products, available separately, for those customers who wish to use both Solaris OpenStep and NEO. SunSoft, Inc. SunSoft, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet management, access, application development and platform software. SunSoft's products, designed for information technology professionals, systems integrators value added resellers, and computer manufacturers, are used to deliver Internet, network, and desktop computing systems that improve a company's internal and customer communications, and lets them quickly adapt to business change. The products are licensed and distributed through computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. SunSoft is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more information, contact SunSoft on the Internet at: http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, SunSoft, Solaris, OpenWindows, Java, Wabi, Workshop and NEO are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. OpenStep is a trademark or registered trademark of NeXT Software, Inc., in the United States and other countries, used under license. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. CONTACT: SunSoft, Inc. Lili McGirr, 415/786-4147 lili.mcgirr@eng.sun.com or GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter GCI Getty Conservation Institute GCI Global Commerce Initiative GCI Green Cross International (non-profit international environmental organization) GCI Growth Competitiveness Index GCI Great Cities Institute San Francisco Todd Tornga, 415/974-6200 ttornga@gcigroup.com |
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