SynQuest Announces Availability of the Supply Chain Performance Series On Sun Solaris Operating Environment.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1999-- Supply Chain Management Software 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. SynQuest Inc. today announced its Supply Chain Performance Series application software is available on the Solaris(TM) operating environment, Sun Microsystems' version of 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) operating system. The SynQuest Supply Chain Performance Series(TM), is a full suite of products used by companies to optimize, plan and synchronize execution of their supply chains. The software provides the decision support capabilities required by organizations to best manage material and information flow - from suppliers, through manufacturing and logistics activities, to final customers. SynQuest was recently awarded a contract valued at over $11 million for software and services by Moore Corporation Limited. Moore selected the Sun 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) Solaris platform to implement SynQuest software, including supply chain planning and manufacturing management applications, in a corporate-wide roll out. The software, running on Sun(TM) Enterprise servers and storage, will be implemented at 30 manufacturing facilities or more within the next three years. Moore, a $2.6 billion company, designs, manufactures and delivers end-to-end business communications solutions. "With the addition of the Sun Solaris environment, the SynQuest Supply Chain Performance Series is available on all the operating environments, including UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT(R), that are popular with our customers," said Joseph Trino, SynQuest president and chief executive officer. "Now SynQuest users can take advantage of the highly scalable, reliable, Solaris environment to optimize supply chain performance." According to Doug Kaewert, Vice President of Market Development at Sun Microsystems, "Manufacturers and distributors now can use SynQuest software in a Solaris environment to maximize return on investment in plants, warehouses, inventories and transportation, as well as other assets other assets Assets of relatively small value. For financial reporting purposes, firms frequently combine small assets into a single category rather than listing each item separately. . In the increasingly networked environment of global supply chains, the software platform must be as dependable as the telephone network. The Solaris environment is that platform." About Sun 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 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. About SynQuest SynQuest, Inc. (www.synquest.com), a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. with offices worldwide. The SynQuest Supply Chain Performance Series combines planning and execution at all levels of the supply chain. The software enables companies to optimize financial performance while meeting customer expectations and achieving competitive differentiation. Computerworld named SynQuest to its 1997 list of "100 Hot Emerging Companies." SynQuest also won the 1998 Managing Automation "Reader's Choice Award" in two areas for best "Supply Chain Management/APS" and "MES (Manufacturing Execution Software) Software that provides real time access to plant activities that include equipment, labor, orders and inventory. An MES integrates the data with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems so that management has complete control of " products. SynQuest products operate on HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , 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) RS/6000 AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows NT servers and networked PC clients with Microsoft Windows 95 and NT. For more information, call (800) 844-3228, ext. 11. SynQuest Supply Chain Performance Series is a trademark of SynQuest Inc., Atlanta, Ga. All other trademarks are properties of their respective companies. Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Sun Enterprise, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. SPARC is a trademark of SPARC International, Inc. 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. |
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