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- From: joes@lpi.liant.com (Joe Stewart)
- Subject: Template Graphics Software (TGS) Now Independent
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.212007.9189@lpi.liant.com>
- Keywords: PHIGS
- Sender: news@lpi.liant.com
- Reply-To: joes@tgs.com
- Organization: Template Graphics Software (TGS)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:20:07 GMT
- Lines: 76
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- On December 4, Template Graphics Software announced that it had
- emerged from Liant Software Corporation as an independent corporation.
- The text of the press release follows:
-
- Contact:
-
- Robert J. Weideman
- Marketing Manager
- Template Graphics Software
- Voice: (619)457-5359
- Fax: (619)452-2547
- email: robert@tgs.com
-
- Press Release
-
- Template Graphics Software (TGS)
- Now An Independent Company
-
- San Diego, Calf., December 4, 1992 -- Template Graphics Software (TGS)
- announced today its ownership has been sold to a group of investors
- represented by Landmark Ventures, Inc., an investment company based in
- Simsbury, Conn. TGS, formerly operated as Liant Software Corporations
- Graphics Business Group, is now an independent corporate entity wholly
- owned by Landmark's affiliates and operated as a separate organization.
-
- "As an independent organization, TGS can better focus its efforts on the
- fast-paced graphics software tools market. The transition also fulfills
- our strategy to secure additional investment for the company, enabling
- us to be better positioned for the growth opportunities in the emerging
- open system based graphics software market," said Terry Baker, Chief
- Operating Officer of Template Graphics Software. Baker was formerly
- Vice President and General Manager of the Corporate Graphics Business
- Unit at Liant Software.
-
- Landmark Ventures, the investment management company acquiring TGS,
- focuses on high growth, technology-based companies. Stanley Alfeld,
- chairman of the board and CEO of Landmark Ventures, is also chairman
- of the board of TGS. Alfeld recently resigned as chairman and
- director of Liant Software Corporation.
-
- "The Template Graphics Software acquisition is a perfect portfolio fit
- for Landmark Ventures. This also makes great sense for TGS because it
- will enable the company to concentrate all its energies in the graphics
- industry. This market presents an exciting opportunity. TGS is well-
- positioned to capitalize on the market shift from proprietary to
- open tools such as those based on PHIGS and PEX," said Alfeld.
-
- Landmark has investments in areas such as networking and optical data
- base systems, integrated circuits and design software, imaging systems
- and a wide range of computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools.
-
- Template Graphics Software, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., produces
- open systems based graphics software tools for application developers in
- Fortune 500, government, academic and ISV organizations. TGS was the
- first supplier of standards based portable graphics tools and is the
- leading independent software vendor of products based on the PHIGS
- (Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System) ANSI/ISO standard.
- TGS specializes in providing PHIGS based tools on all systems, from PC's
- to supercomputers and mainframes.
-
- The PHIGS graphics standard is recommended and endorsed by the
- MIT X Consortium, the Open Software Foundation (OSF), the Petrotechnical
- Open Software Foundation (POSC) and other open software organizations.
- PHIGS is licensed at over 10,000 locations worldwide and was the model
- used in the development of the PHIGS Extension to X (PEX), the graphics
- extension for the X Window System.
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- Joseph Stewart
- Senior Applications Engineer (FIGARO+, FIGt, FIGraph)
- Template Graphics Software (TGS)
- 959 Concord Street
- Framingham MA 01701-4613 (USA)
- 508-872-8700 x340
- joes@tgs.com -- tgs!joes
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