Sun OpenStep Solutions Answer Customer Needs For Rapid Application Development; Ships Industry-Leading Object Technology In Solaris OpenStep and WorkShop OpenStep Products.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1996--Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced competitive-edge products that enable its customers to easily build and rapidly deploy sophisticated business applications throughout their enterprise and the Internet. The new 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 are based on the open, portable object standard specification jointly created by SunSoft and NeXT Software, Inc. Using an integrated and flexible 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 (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. ) with a complete set of powerful graphical programming tools, developers can quickly prototype, test and deploy sophisticated applications. They can easily incorporate custom objects developed in-house with commercially available third-party objects, resulting in easy-to-use custom solutions for the enterprise and intranet networks. Customers Comment OpenStep for Solaris will give Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. , the nation's largest source of home mortgage funds, the ability to extend their investment in object technology to a large installed base of Solaris servers and clients. "We eagerly anticipate the final production release of OpenStep for Solaris," said Carol Teasley, vice president for Object Technology at Fannie Mae. "This will enable us to provide our decision support area with the ability to quickly build object-oriented analytics to support investment decisions which critically impact our vast portfolio." "Solaris OpenStep and WorkShop OpenStep running on top of Solaris allow us to preserve our existing investment in NEXTSTEP technology by making it portable to an open, scalable platform," says Daniel L. Green, a software architect at First Chicago NBD NBD Next Business Day NBD National Bank of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) NBD No Big Deal NBD Network Block Device (Linux) NBD Nucleotide Binding Domain NBD New Business Development Corporation. "We are pleased to see SunSoft continue to provide cutting edge software development solutions for our mission critical application development needs." "Sun is integrating the number one open systems operating environment with OpenStep, the industry-leading object standard," said Steve MacKay, vice president and general manager of Solaris Products Group. "With OpenStep, our customers like Lehman Brothers and Fannie Mae can respond immediately to competitive pressures through rapid development and deployment of mission-critical applications. These custom applications can run simultaneously with today's 10,000 Solaris applications." 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). 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 (TM) and Intel platforms. Solaris OpenStep products are designed to be fully compatible with Solaris(TM) NEO(TM) software. NEO(TM) provides the infrastructure and shared services shared services, n.pl the administrative, clinical, or other service functions that are common to two or more hospitals or their health care facilities and used jointly or cooperatively by them. in the back end to support and administer object-based applications distributed over the network, while WorkShop OpenStep provides a powerful development environment for creating graphical front ends for object applications. Pricing and Availability Solaris OpenStep is available immediately for non-commercial use via the Internet from Sun's home page at http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep. Solaris OpenStep and WorkShop OpenStep will be available commercially for $295 and $5,995 respectively, per license through Sun's sales channels in September. For more information, contact Sun on the Internet at: http://www.sun.com/solaris. Sun Microsystems, Inc. With annual revenues exceeding $7 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides products and services that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC(TM) workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) industry. Java, Sun's platform-independent programming language, provides a comprehensive solution to the challenge of programming for complex networks, including the Internet. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982, and is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, SunSoft, Solaris, Solaris NEO, 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. 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