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- UNIVEL ANNOUNCES UNIXWARE EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM
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- More than 50 Key Software Developers and Hardware Vendors Support UnixWare
- Solutions
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- SAN JOSE, California -- June 9, 1992 -- Univel, the joint partnership
- between Novell, Inc. and UNIX System Laboratories, Inc., today announced
- its Early Access Program, which allows software developers and hardware
- vendors to support Univel's graphical, NetWare-ready UNIX operating
- system, known as UnixWare. UnixWare for Intel-based PCs is based on UNIX
- SVR4.2 and will ship in volume later in 1992.
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- More than 50 key developers are participating in the Early-Access Program
- and are committed to supporting Univel's UnixWare when it ships. The
- result of this program will be to provide end-users with the UNIX
- applications and hardware support they require in today's enterprise-wide
- network computing environment. Participants of the Early Access Program
- include 3COM, Adaptec, Applix, Borland, Frame Technology, Great Plains
- Software, HyperDesk, Informix, Ingres, Island Graphics, Interleaf,
- Lotus, Oracle, Progress, and WordPerfect. Furthermore, Intel, UNIX
- International and USL are supporting the program.
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- "Customers have been asking for a solution that delivers all the strengths
- of UNIX in an easy-to-use, graphical environment with seamless integration
- to NetWare networks," said Joel A. Appelbaum, Univel president and CEO.
- "With our Early Access Program, software developers and hardware
- manufacturers can begin exploiting the power of UnixWare today, to deliver
- the next-generation of distributed computing."
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- In addition to the key applications which have been targeted by Univel's
- Early Access Program, UnixWare is compatible with over 3000 existing
- UNIX-based applications available for the Intel X86 platform. Furthermore,
- access to thousands of DOS- and Windows-based applications, and to NetWare
- networked computing resources are also provided, giving customers a broad
- range of solutions for their distributed computing environment.
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- "Novell's objective with Univel is to ensure customers can better
- integrate their valued applications with computer networks through an
- easy-to-use, 32-bit, scalable application platform that becomes an
- integral part of the NetWare solution," Kanwal S. Rekhi, Novell executive
- vice president and general manager Interoperability Systems Group.
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- "Univel provides a volume distribution channel that puts SVR4.2 in the
- mainstream of corporate client/server computing," said Roel Pieper,
- president and CEO of USL. "Univel's developer program will fuel the
- proliferation of applications that take advantage of the new levels of
- power and networking provided through UnixWare."
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- Developer Support
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- "We are excited about the strides that Univel is making in furthering the
- desktop UNIX market. UnixWare will be a great addition to current UNIX
- offerings in the market," said Brent McKinley, director of UNIX marketing
- at WordPerfect Corporation.
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- "Both Novell and UNIX System Laboratories should be congratulated for
- founding Univel and for bringing UnixWare to market P a product that will
- greatly assist thousands of NetWare customers to seamlessly integrate
- their PC and UNIX networks," said D.J. Long, vice president of marketing
- for Applix.
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- "By supporting UnixWare, HyperDesk is continuing its mission and
- commitment to offer an industry-standard, open, distributed computing
- solution which supports as many hardware and software platforms as
- possible," said Jerry Levin, vice chairman of HyperDesk.
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- "UnixWare substantially strengthens the link between UNIX and NetWare,"
- said Jim Sha, vice president of Oracle's UNIX products division. "The
- UnixWare operating environment enhances Oracle's long-standing
- environment via SPX/IPX protocol support. The result will be a more
- integrated combination of Novell file servers and Oracle's UNIX database
- servers on PC LANs."
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- Early Access Program Specifics
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- The developer kit being provided includes:
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- Early Access Software
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- -Early version of UnixWare based on USL's UNIX SVR4.2 with an easy-to-use
- graphical desktop manager and tight integration with NetWare services,
- protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs)
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- Development tools
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- -MooLIT tools to develop graphical applications that adhere to the Open
- Look API and support both Motif and Open Look
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- -OSF/Motif development tools and libraries to develop graphical
- applications that adhere to the Motif API
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- -Device driver kits to facilitate support of a wide range of peripherals
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- -Network APIs to facilitate creation of client/server applications
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- - NetWare C Interface for UNIX API
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- - TLI over IPX/SPX and TCP/IP
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- - TI-RPC over IPX/SPX and TCP/IP
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- Documentation
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- -Developer, administrator and end-user manuals
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- Technical Support and Customer Service
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- -Software engineering support
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- -Assistance over electronic mail service
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- Univel, founded in December of 1991, is a partnership between Novell, Inc.
- and UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. The company is chartered with growing
- the UNIX system and network computing market by providing open system
- software solutions for distributed enterprise-wide computing. Univel's
- UnixWare family of products will incorporate the most powerful, user
- friendly, graphics-based UNIX operating system available today while
- providing seamless integration to NetWare.
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- Univel, headquartered in San Jose, is located at 2180 Fortune Drive, San
- Jose, California 95131. The company can be reached by phone at
- 408/473-8788 or by fax at 408/473-8774.
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- UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. Univel
- is a trademark of Univel and UnixWare is a joint trademark of Univel and
- UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. NetWare is a registered trademark of
- Novell, Inc. All other brand and product names are registered trademarks
- or trademarks of their respective holders.
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