Thomson Software Products signs VAR agreement with Atria Software Inc.; company to integrate and distribute its Ada development environments with Atria ClearCase configuration management products.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--Thomson Software Products (formerly Alsys) Monday announced it has signed a Value-Added Reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. (VAR) agreement with Atria Atria The heart has four chambers. The right and left atria are at the top of the heart and receive returning blood from the veins. The right and left ventricles are at the bottom of the heart and act as the body's main pumps. Software Inc. to integrate and distribute its Ada development environments with Atria's ClearCase and ClearCase MultiSite configuration management products. The VAR agreement enables Thomson Software Products Thomson Software Products (TSP) was a software development corporation based in Norwalk, Connecticut with engineering and support facilities in Norwalk and San Diego, California. Established in July 1995, the corporation became half of Aonix in 1996. to provide change control, management and maintenance products that are tightly coupled See tight coupling. with its powerful UNIX-based Ada development environments to help provide complete lifecycle support for Ada applications development. ``Integration with Atria's ClearCase configuration management products allows us to provide a highly integrated, single-source solution to meet the increasing demands of mission-critical, business-critical and safety-critical Ada applications developers,'' said Jacques Brygier, director of Ada product marketing. ``This agreement represents one of many we are actively pursuing with premier third-party tool vendors to provide additional development capabilities for our users. Our goal is to offer highly integrated technologies that support today's distributed network, while helping development teams work more effectively and efficiently together.'' ClearCase is a powerful configuration management tool which provides version control, build management, workspace management and process control capabilities for UNIX-based environments. It helps software engineers and managers store, manage and access software products and components as they evolve during development. ClearCase provides transparent access to versioned objects via a standard UNIX file system The Unix file system (UFS) is a file system used by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is also called the Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS. It is a distant descendant of the original filesystem used by Version 7 Unix. interface. Developers, therefore, continue to work in their existing environment and toolset without having to adjust their workstyles or patterns. ClearCase MultiSite is an option that supports geographically dispersed projects. This option allows distributed development This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * Very few or no other articles link to this one. teams to access, develop, integrate and update software across multiple locations. ``Thomson Software Products has a long, highly regarded heritage in the Ada-based software development tools market,'' said Robert Parker Robert Parker may refer to:
(2) See supply chain management. .'' ``This partnership reflects Atria's distribution strategy to work with leaders in complementary niche markets where SCM is an important requirement. We believe the Ada market will benefit from the integration of our products,'' added Parker. Integration with Ada Development Environments Thomson Software Products will perform the integration of ClearCase and ClearCase MultiSite products with the AdaWorld and ObjectAda development environments to enable the interoperability between the products. ObjectAda is a new environment based on Ada 95, the new Ada language standard which incorporates Object-Oriented Programming object-oriented programming, a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the (OOP See object-oriented programming. OOP - object-oriented programming ) capabilities. AdaWorld is a complete environment for both native and cross-target Ada applications development. In addition to providing validated, optimizing Ada compilers, both ObjectAda and AdaWorld products include user-friendly OSF/Motif graphical user interfaces and a full complement of productivity tools, including an efficient multi- library system, source-level debugger (programming, tool) source-level debugger - A debugger that shows the programmer the line or expression in the source code that resulted in a particular machine code instruction of a running program loaded in memory. , multi-threading support, performance analyzer, text editor, on-line help and complete user documentation. Maintenance, upgrades and customer support for the integrated products will be provided directly by Thomson Software Products. The first release of Thomson Software Products Ada environments integrated with ClearCase will be for Hewlett-Packard UNIX-based workstations and servers, with first customer shipments expected in second quarter 1995. U.S.-based pricing for the integrated ClearCase product will be $4,000 for a single-user license. Thomson Software Products will port this technology to Sun and 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) RS6000 systems for shipment later in 1995. Atria Software Inc. Founded in 1990, Atria Software Inc. develops, markets and supports software that facilitates the management of complex software development, enhancement and maintenance. The company's software configuration management products are used by professional software development teams to control the software development process, develop releases more efficiently, improve software quality and shorten time to market. Atria's products are used by independent software vendors, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. suppliers, and in-house application development groups. More than 15,000 licenses of ClearCase are installed at more than 450 customer sites worldwide. Internet users can access Atria's World Wide Web page at http://www.atria.com. Thomson Software Products Thomson Software Products is a $75-million software company with more than 500 employees and more than 20,000 product installations worldwide. Company headquarters are located in Norwalk, Conn., with European headquarters in Paris. Sales offices, distributors and licensed agents are located throughout 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. , Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . The company offers a wide range of high-productivity software products, including NOMAD, a family of 4GL products and capabilities for cross-platform, client/server environments; a variety of native and cross-development Ada environments; and the TeleUSE User Interface Management System product lines. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: AdaWorld and ObjectAda are trademarks of Alsys Inc. Alsys is a registered trademark of Alsys Inc. ClearCase is a registered trademark of Atria Software Inc. All other products mentioned are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Thomson Software Products Karen Johnson, 619/457-2700 or Atria Software Inc. Amy Weinstein, 508/650-5195 |
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