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IBM PERSONAL SOFTWARE PRODUCTS DIVISION SUPPORTS MOVE BY UNIX LEADERS TO
FORM COMMON OPEN SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT
SOMERS, N.Y., March 17 . . . IBM's Personal Software
Products (PSP) division enthusiastically supports the actions
outlined today by IBM's Advanced Workstations and Systems
division, Hewlett-Packard Company, The Santa Cruz Operation,
Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Univel and UNIX Systems
Laboratories, Inc. The six UNIX** leaders announced their intent
to deliver a common open software environment.
This announcement is consistent with IBM's Personal Software
Products' previously outlined strategy to extend the OS/2
Workplace Shell, DCE (Distributed Computing Environment), DME
(Distributed Management Environment), and OMG/CORBA-compliant
object technology across a broad range of industry platforms.
The success of OS/2, IBM's award-winning operating system, has
been due in no small part to the Workplace Shell, IBM's
easy-to-use graphical user interface. Extending the Workplace
Shell to DOS and the leading UNIX environments will allow users
to truly operate in a multi-platform, seamless environment.
"The common look and feel our customers have been asking for
across the PC and UNIX platforms can now be a reality," says Lee
Reiswig, president, IBM's Personal Software Products division.
"We are pleased this effort supports and reaffirms our vision for
the future of enterprise computing."
IBM is the first vendor to deliver a product based on the
OSF**'s DCE technology standard. It delivered AIX/DCE in
December 1992 and is currently offering a DCE beta version for
use with its OS/2 product. In addition, its DCE technology will
provide coexistence with and migration from the LAN Server
product and is intended to provide interoperability with NetWare
clients. PSP's LAN Systems' DCE products provide users with
transparent access to data and applications through standardized
services such as remote procedure calls, directory services and
distributed file access while maintaining security. PSP will
address systems management solutions through its LAN NetView*
family of products which will comply with OSF's DME industry
standard.
IBM's distributed system object model (DSOM) currently being
beta tested for use with OS/2 and AIX, is the industry's first
cross-platform, multi-language distributed object manager and is
also 100 percent CORBA-compliant. Developers will find that DSOM
dramatically simplifies the creation of applications whose
functions are distributed across networks and systems. DSOM is
based on the system object model (SOM), currently available in
OS/2 2.0. Several language vendors including IBM, Borland,
Digitalk, MetaWare and MicroFocus have announced support for SOM
and DSOM.
Lee Reiswig added, "Today's announcement further underscores
our long-term strategy and commitment toward delivering products,
solutions, training and support in an open computing environment
to customers."
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* Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the
International Business Machines Corporation
** Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the following
companies: UNIX, UNIX System Laboratories; OSF, The Open
Software Foundation