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IBM ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR TIS SOFTWARE TOOLS STANDARDS INTERFACES
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 23, 1993 . . . At a joint press
conference held today at the Software Development '93 conference,
IBM Personal Software Products announced its charter membership
in the Tools Interface Standards (TIS) committee, an industry
group that will work together to define specifications that
enable vendors to enhance the interoperability and portability of
32-bit development tools and to improve the economics of
developing 32-bit applications.
IBM is pleased to join TIS," said John Soyring, director of
software development programs, IBM Personal Software Products.
"Working as part of the TIS committee is consistent with our
goals to implement standards where they exist, and work with the
industry to define new standards where they do not yet exist.
One of the goals of the software development community is to
improve productivity. These TIS specifications should contribute
to developers achieving that goal."
The group of vendors, including Borland, IBM, Intel, Lotus,
Metaware, Microsoft, SCO and WATCOM, will work to define a set of
tool interface specifications for 32-bit operating systems and
provide an open forum to continue to enhance and expand the set
of standards for software development tools.
"We look forward to working with the other vendors on the
TIS committee," said Mr. Soyring. "The results of this joint
effort should be beneficial to the industry as a whole as well as
to IBM."
OS/2 2.0's Enhanced Features
OS/2 2.0 is the award-winning advanced operating system for
32-bit personal computers that helps protect customers'
investments in existing software by enabling them to run tens of
thousands of DOS, Windows** and OS/2 applications seamlessly on
the desktop. This robust platform offers superior technology,
including an easy-to-use graphical user interface, called the
Workplace Shell, true preemptive multitasking that allows
customers to run multiple software programs concurrently, and
Crash Protection*, which guards against one application being
able to bring down the entire system
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* Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the
International Business Machines Corporation
** Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the Microsoft
Corporation
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