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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Jennifer Jester/Gary Wolfe/Lucy Graziano
Public Communications
(508) 898-1000
DEVELOPER REACTION TO BANYAN
ANNOUNCEMENT OF VINES VERSION 4.10
MONTREAL, April 8, 1991 -- Attached are selected comments from a wide
variety of developer organizations, listed below alphabetically:
Auto-Scan Systems, Inc.
Computer Mail Services, Inc.
Coordination Technologies
Datech Network Software
Eicon Technology
FTP Software, Inc.
HCS Networks
IBM Corp.
Lotus Development Corp.
Microsoft Corp. (Server Applications Group)
Microsoft Corp. (Windows Group)
NetPro Computing
NetWise, Inc.
Oracle Corp.
PeerLogic
Reach Software Corp.
Revelation Technologies, Inc.
Saros Corp.
Software Marketing Group
Trellis
ViewStar Corp.
WordPerfect Corp.
Zoomit Corp.
ZyLab Corp.
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DEVELOPER REACTION TO BANYAN VINES 4.10/ April 8/ Page 1
Auto-Scan Systems, Inc. - Neil Benedict, President
"The developer tools available with VINES 4.10 are excellent. We used them
to integrate our new RETREEVE PLUS drawing management software with
Banyan VINES networks. As a result, VINES users now have, for the first time,
the ability to access, view, pan/zoom, red-line and print scanned drawings
or CAD files, such as Autocad and Intergraph, quickly and easily from their
own PCs."
Computer Mail Services, Inc. (CMS) - Lee Tah Wong, President
"Having worked with the Banyan Toolkit since its earliest versions, CMS looks
forward to the new direction opening up to developers with the release of
the VINES Toolkit Version 4.10. Particularly beneficial is the Network Mail
Client API and the programming interfaces for Microsoft Windows. With
these tools, CMS will design and develop workstation software to
compliment our VINES server-based electronic mail gateways: V-Bridge for
MCI and V-Bridge for MHS."
Coordination Technologies - J. Roger Moody, President and CEO
"Banyan's commitment to the OS/2 client-server architecture opens the
door for Together to run on Banyan VINES Version 4.10. Banyan's
enterprise-wide directory service capabilities for addressing nodes or
networks particularly suits the strength of our groupware product."
Datech Network Software - Edwin Laubach, President
"The new Banyan VINES APIs included in the new release of the Applications
Toolkit open the door to a whole realm of VINES-integrated applications
that can be developed. As VINES developers, we see this as a major event
in the evolution of VINES."
Eicon Technology - Laurie Harvey, Director, Strategic Relations
"We are pleased that with the upcoming release of Banyan VINES 4.10,
Banyan now supports both OS/2 and Windows in the enterprise-wide
networking environment. This new support fits well with the communications
products from Eicon Technology, especially our Access for Windows (3270)
emulation product."
FTP Software, Inc. - Bruce Campbell, Director of Product Marketing
"Banyan's new release provides a complete network operating system for
OS/2. Our OS/2
product, PC/TCP for OS/2, provides communications between disparate
computer types. The synergy between our two products provides a
complete networking and connectivity solution to customers."
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DEVELOPER REACTION TO BANYAN VINES 4.10/ April 8/ Page 2
HCS Networks - Robert K. Brouwer, President
"Banyan VINES 4.10 enhances VINES' already-proven ability to provide the
easiest network operating system to use and manage the world over. VINES
is perfectly suited for customers in the burgeoning European networking
market, and HCS will continue development of network management
applications with the new VNSM APIs provided in the new Banyan
Applications Toolkit."
IBM Corp. - Lee Reiswig, Assistant General Manager of Programming
"OS/2 is a strategic platform for many of our customers, and we are pleased
that Banyan VINES now incorporates OS/2 support. The two companies
have been working together for a long time to ensure full product
interoperability, and VINES Version 4.10 is a solid step in that direction."
Lotus Development Corp. - Larry Moore, Vice President, Lotus Comm.
Product Group
"Lotus Notes was built as a distributed application - to facilitate
communications in large, decentralized or geographically dispersed
organization, where users work in varied time zones, with conflicting
schedules and priorities, or differing work styles. As a distributed networking
solution, Banyan VINES 4.10 is the perfect complement to Notes, allowing
users to take full advantage of Notes' capabilities."
Microsoft Corp. - Dwayne Walker, Senior Product Business Manager, Server
Apps. Group
"Microsoft is excited that Banyan customers will now be able to take
advantage of Microsoft SQL Server and more than 65 front-end tools that
run on this database engine. Banyan and
Microsoft will cooperate in sales, marketing and technical support for
customers running Microsoft SQL Server on their VINES networks."
Microsoft Corp. - Rich Abel, Windows Group Product Manager
One of the significant contributors to Windows 3.0 success is its enhanced
network functionality. With Version 3.0, Windows became 'network aware'
giving Windows users of VINES Version 4.0 consistent access to basic
network functionality from within the Windows
environment. We are excited to see the enhancements that VINES 4.10 will
bring to the Windows user."
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DEVELOPER REACTION TO BANYAN VINES 4.10/ April 8/ Page 3
NetPro Computing - Randy Bradley, President
"We have been working with the Banyan VINES Applications Toolkit since its
early beta and it provides without a doubt the most powerful environment
in which to develop enterprise-wide network applications and services.
Using the Toolkit gives one a real appreciation for the power and potential
of StreetTalk and the VINES architecture.
"With the release of VINES 4.10 APIs, Banyan is demonstrating its
commitment to further open the VINES network operating system to
developers. Banyan is creating the right environment that developers need
to provide real solutions to enterprise-wide network business needs. Banyan
VINES has always been a great development environment, but now the fun
really starts!"
NetWise, Inc. - Bob Brannon, CEO
"Banyan is a leader in computing for enterprise environments. In June,
NetWise will offer a series of new products for Banyan VINES transports on
DOS, MS-Windows, SCO UNIX, and other platforms, allowing even more
users to take advantage of distributed computing."
Oracle Corp. - Jim Sha, Vice President, UNIX Products Division
"With VINES 4.10, ORACLE for VINES delivers support for DOS, OS/2, and
Windows clients using the native VINES protocol. This allows ORACLE users
to develop critical applications that utilize the power and flexibility of a
VINES network."
PeerLogic - Dan Gregerson, CEO
"We are very pleased to be supporting the Banyan VINES environment.
PeerLogic's PIPES Platform will extend the inherent capabilities of the VINES
operating system while easing the writing of distributed applications and
allowing applications to communicate seamlessly over different protocol
stacks."
Reach Software - Anand Jagannathan, President and Founder
"Banyan has always been a leader in innovative PC networking technology
and has built a large customer base across a broad range of industries.
VINES' Version 4.10's full support for Windows and a commitment to
providing interfaces to many of its major services are strategic to
developers building new network applications. Banyan VINES 4.10 is a
critical component of Reach Software's product development strategy as
we enter the market with a new class of LAN-based, electronic
mail-enabled workflow applications."
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DEVELOPER REACTION TO BANYAN VINES 4.10/ April 8/ Page 4
Revelation Technologies, Inc. - James Acquaviva, President
"Revelation Technologies is enthusiastic about the addition of Named Pipes
support in Banyan VINES Version 4.10. This support will provide Advanced
Revelation users with an important component that will enable them to
cooperatively process information stored in SQL Server and DB2 mainframe
databases."
Saros Corp. - Wayne Carpenter, President
"Our document filing and retrieval system, Mezzanine, has been running
successfully for some time now on a multiserver Banyan VINES 4.10 network
at a major financial services firm in New York. The synergy between VINES'
robust architectural foundation and Mezzanine's document filing and
retrieval system becomes very apparent in large, multivendor networks. The
product combination allows users to greatly simplify network utilization and
streamline administration, thereby increasing user productivity."
Software Marketing Group - Doug Nicholas, Director of Marketing
"Enterprise networks are so important today that system problems may slow
down or even stop important business activities until the situation can be
corrected. With this in mind, we created Help Express, an experience-based
technical support product to help Banyan resellers and internal support
group track calls and diagnose problems. We integrated the
Banyan VINES 4.10 messaging system into our product as a means of
alerting technicians instantly when a customer has requested help."
Trellis - Robert Shea, Vice President, Business Development
"Adding value to Banyan VINES networks in the form of innovative software
applications has been one reason for Trellis' existence and success. VINES
Version 4.10 opens new OS/2 and Windows horizons for us. The new Version
4.10 Applications Toolkit, in particular, enables Trellis to easily develop true
distributed applications for enterprise-wide environments."
ViewStar Corp. - Kamran Kheirolomoom, President and CEO
"As enterprise networks are becoming more pervasive, the information
handling aspects of business are moving away from paper-intensive to
computer-based storage and communication functions. Such a trend
demands sophisticated document management and workflow processing
systems -- like ViewStar -- with the ability to work with high powered
databases -- like SQL Server. Thanks to ViewStar's fully distributed
client-server architecture and the Named Pipes client communication
facilities of Banyan VINES 4.10 , ViewStar is now able to support the
integration of SQL Server as a back-end database."
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DEVELOPER REACTION TO BANYAN VINES 4.10/ April 8/ Page 5
WordPerfect Corp. - Clive Winn, Vice President, Marketing
"At WordPerfect, we want to allow people to use our products on any
computer system they choose. WordPerfect Corporation is excited about
the introduction of Banyan VINES Version 4.10. The platform independence
it provides is important for our users who work in large networks across
dissimilar computing platforms. Banyan is known for its strengths in wide
area network solutions across geographically dispersed organizations. We
look forward to working with VINES 4.10 capabilities to support our DOS,
Windows and OS/2 WordPerfect network users."
Zoomit Corporation - Andy Bahl, President
"Electronic messaging is a critical component of many businesses. It is
important for developers, like Zoomit, to make messaging more versatile
and powerful. The new openness of Banyan VINES has made it possible for
us to integrate Zoomit's VINES 400 X.400 product fully with the Banyan mail
transport mechanism, thereby bringing to Banyan VINES users convenient
connectivity with other X.400 E-mail users."
ZyLAB Corporation - Scott Woodward, President
"ZyINDEX is an information search and retrieval application most useful to
organizations with massive amounts of textual data to manage. Most of our
customers who need these capabilities are using many types of PC
operating systems in their environment. We're pleased that the introduction
of Banyan VINES Version 4.10 gives them yet another Window through which
to manage this information."
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