Sun Announces Immediate Availability of Sun WorkShop 5.0 Integrated Development Environment.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999-- New Version Provides 64-Bit Development, ANSI C (language, standard) ANSI C - (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989. cgram is a grammar for ANSI C, written in Scheme. ++ Support and Faster Performance 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. today announced the immediate availability of its new release of Sun WorkShop(tm), the integrated application development tools optimized for the Solaris 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. . Sun WorkShop 5.0 includes Sun(tm) Visual WorkShop(tm) C++ 5.0 and Sun Performance WorkShop(tm) Fortran 5.0 software to give developers an advantage when building scalable, high performance 32- and 64-bit enterprise-class applications. Sun WorkShop also allows developers to create reusable, portable ANSI C++ applications, while dramatically increasing the performance of existing code. Sun WorkShop is available immediately for download at http://www.sun.com/workshop. "With over 8,000 downloads since the Developer Release of Sun WorkShop 5.0 in October 1998, we are delivering on our promise of high-performance enterprise application development tools," said Joe Keller, director of Developer Environments and Tools, Sun Microsystems. "Developers are eager to take advantage of the increased capacity and performance of 64-bit technology, along with the power and portability of the new ANSI C++ standard." Sun WorkShop provides: -- Comprehensive, highly productive environment for mixed language development in C, C++ and Fortran. -- Full support for 32-bit and 64-bit development. -- Easy migration from 32-bit applications to 64-bit to facilitate scaling from desktop clients to datacenter servers. -- Year 2000 compliance to preserve development investments into the new millennium. -- Strategic, long-term investment for application development. "Users continue to need in-house applications that can take full advantage of the latest and greatest 64-bit hardware and operating environments from suppliers such as Sun," said Brian Kalita, senior analyst at Aberdeen group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . "Sun's latest release of Visual WorkShop C++ and Performance WorkShop Fortran shows that Sun recognizes this key user need and is meeting it effectively, helping developers to deliver the full scalability benefits of 64-bit platforms to legacy programs." Sun Visual WorkShop 5.0 C++ provides: -- Newly-approved ANSI/ISO C++ standard extends the flexibility and portability of C++. -- Highest performance environment for C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ development for the Solaris product line. -- Optimized C and C++ compilers for high-performance server applications. -- Client/server GUI builder 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. for linking server code to client software. -- Memory monitor to help ensure mission-critical applications run reliably 24 hours a day. -- Backwards compatibility backwards compatibility - backward compatibility to migrate some older C++ code to the new standard. Sun Performance WorkShop 5.0 Fortran provides: -- Significant performance improvements for all applications, especially Fortran 90. -- New routines and optimizations for the Sun Performance Library. -- High-performance Fortran compilation system. -- 64-bit capabilities High-Performance Computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. Sun Performance WorkShop 5.0 augments Sun's high-performance computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) server product line bringing Supercomputer-class performance and capability to the 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 (TM) platform. With the new 64-bit Fortran environment, developers can define arrays more than 4 billion bytes long, allowing huge datasets to be read into memory for processing. This dramatic increase in capacity, combined with overall improvements in performance and capability, means that Sun users can now solve the most difficult problems on SPARC servers. "Sun's dedication to the high-performance computing market is evident in this latest release of the Sun Performance WorkShop Fortran," said Walt Brainerd, president of Unicomp, Inc. and noted expert on Fortran programming. "By implementing 64-bit application development in the Performance WorkShop Fortran product, they have enabled a new class of applications for the SPARC/Solaris platform." Pricing And Availability Sun WorkShop software, including Sun Visual WorkShop C++ 5.0 and Sun Performance WorkShop Fortran 5.0 software, is available immediately for purchase from Sun resellers and online on the Web at http://www.sun.com/workshop. Sun Visual WorkShop C++ and Sun Performance WorkShop Fortran software are each currently available starting at $1895 for personal user licenses. Sun Visual WorkShop C++ 5.0 and Sun Performance WorkShop Fortran 5.0 software are expected to both be available for shipment later this month. Licenses for shareable network versions and large customer sites are also available. Customer upgrades and competitive trade-ups currently start at under $1,000. For more information go to http://www.sun.com/workshop. Pricing and availability subject to change without notice. Sun WorkShop 5.0 supports versions 2.5.1, 2.6 and 7 of the Solaris operating environment software. Solaris 7 is required for 64-bit support. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $10.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Sun WorkShop, Sun Performance WorkShop, Sun Visual WorkShop, and "The Network Is the Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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. and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and 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. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape Navigator or Sun's HotJava. Type http://www.sun.com at the 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. prompt. |
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