TriTeal's TED selected as the common desktop for strategic, cross-agency DoD implementation; GCCS program receives initial shipment of 10,000 units.

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 1996--TriTeal Corp., a leading open systems enterprise desktop and system software provider, Thursday announced that the TriTeal Enterprise Desktop (TED) has been selected as the exclusive desktop for the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII-COE) Kernal, to be implemented by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

The DII-COE project is an extensive effort to unify the vast array of disparate systems in cross-agency application deployment, which spans the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and other federal agencies. TriTeal and its products will play a key role in this military unification effort.

In conjunction with other DII-COE products, TED will provide a single platform-independent environment in which disparate military applications can exchange data through common interfaces.

TriTeal has already received an initial order for 10,000 TED units for the DII-COE project, which will be deployed in the Global Command and Control Systems (GCCS) program. GCCS is the control system for wartime systems and information management.

According to Robert Ruhe, vice president of TriTeal's federal systems group, "We applaud the government's effort to leverage open systems software to build a unified computing environment. What they gain in efficiencies will clearly benefit the entire DoD."

Among other criteria, TED was selected because it meets the fundamental objectives of the program:

1) it provides a common, open systems interface across multiple platforms; 2) it provides access to legacy applications as well as Web-based applications; and 3) TriTeal provides a common support and maintenance source for the product.

TED is a standards-based, platform-independent operating environment that allows users to access applications and data from a single, intuitive graphical interface, regardless of their underlying hardware or operating system platform. Because TED is common across platforms, it significantly reduces training and support costs, and provides greater flexibility for application integration and interoperability.

TED also includes a PC-to-UNIX interoperability solution called NTED, which allows workstation users to run Microsoft Windows applications running at native speed.

TED's core technology is based on the Open Group's Common Desktop Environment (CDE) standard. As the first CDE product to be branded by the Open Group, TED is also the only CDE-based product which extends to multiple vendor platforms, including Sun, HP, IBM, SGI, X Terminals, PC-Windows, and others.

TriTeal Corp.

TriTeal, with headquarters in Carlsbad, develops, markets and supports open systems-based desktop software, system software, and integrated applications. TriTeal's products enable the enterprise to deploy a platform-independent, unified desktop environment which provides each user with access to legacy applications as well as client/server Internet/Intranet-based applications.

The company's flagship product is the TriTeal Enterprise Desktop (TED). TriTeal customers include major corporations in the financial services and telecommunications industries, as well as the government sector.

CONTACT: TriTeal Corp., Carlsbad

Rebecca Lawson, 619/930-2077

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The Townsend Agency

Susan Eppel, 619/457-4888