XFaceMaker Wins 1995 X Industry Award for Best Product Value; QualSoft's and Non Standard Logic's Motif GUI Builder Crowned for Best Product Value by the X Advisor Panel of Industry Experts.PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1996--QualSoft Corp. announced today that XFaceMaker, Europe's leading Motif GUI Builder family, had won the coveted Product of the Year award because of its outstanding value for the price, under one third the price of comparable GUI builders. "A Motif GUI builder for $995 must be seen as a revolutionary price breakthrough in an industry which has been historically known for high-priced tools, as compared to the MS Windows development industry," said Steven Mikes, editor-in-chief of The Discovery Publishing Group's X Advisor on-line publication. "But the $995 price was not the sole basis for the award; we took into perspective the tool's quality, stability, reliability, performance and the fact that the tool can be upgraded to a complete User Interface Management System or even to a Dynamic Graphics Builder and custom widget class generator. This growth path with guaranteed investment protection made it the easy choice for The X Industry Achievement for Best Product Value." "When you combine the affordability and ease of use of XFaceMaker with the XRT XRT A symbol used specifically upon the consolidated tape to indicate a security trading ex-rights. Notes: Typically, a stock will depreciate in price immediately after rights offering expires. widget set, winner of The X Industry Achievement Award for Best X Graphing Suite, it becomes clear that companies equipping their development teams with these integrated tools have a clear time-to-market and quality edge over others using more traditional development methodologies," said Laurent Gharda, president of QualSoft, the exclusive North American distributor for XFaceMaker. "Whether the application being built is a self-contained one, or is a sophisticated client/server application with up to four different relational databases, the industry experts agree that XFaceMaker is the best tool for the job." All XFaceMaker products run on current versions of 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 SunOS and Solaris 2, 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) , AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , UnixWare, SGI IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , Solaris x86, Digital UNIX as well as Concurrent MAXION MAX/OS and RTU. A Cross-Platform builder supporting Motif, Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT front-ends will be released in early 1996. About NSL NSL specializes in the development of the most comprehensive, integrated suite of 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 development tools for Motif and the X Window System. NSL's product line offers solutions for building Motif Interfaces as well as for creating interfaces which require customized dynamic graphics. NSL distributes the XFaceMaker family of GUI builders outside of North America. Founded in 1984, NSL is headquartered in Paris, Tel +33 1 44 08 70 80 or info@nsl.fr. About QualSoft QualSoft Corp. distributes and supports the XFaceMaker family of GUI builders, the XRT widgets from the KL Group as well as other software development tools in North America. QualSoft offers world class software products and services including training, integration, 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). to Windows NT migration, customization and consulting for organizations developing client/server applications in UNIX and heterogeneous environments. Based in Palo Alto, QualSoft can be reached at 415/494-6100, 800/814-6351, info@qsoft.com or http://www.qsoft.com. -0- Note to Editors: QualSoft is a trademark and World Class Software is a service mark of QualSoft Corp. XFaceMaker and the Widget Factory are registered trademarks of Non Standard Logics, S.A. XRT is a trademark of the KL Group. UNIX is a registered trademark, licensed exclusively by X/Open Co. Ltd. Motif is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation. The X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . 35mm screen shots available. CONTACT: QualSoft Corp., Palo Alto Laurent Gharda, 415/494-6100, ext. 101 laurent@qsoft.com or Smith & Shows Winnie Shows, 415/329-8880 wshows@aol.com |
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