September 27, 1994
Maynard, Massachusetts
Digital Equipment Corporation and InSoft Corporation
today announced a program which enhances the capabilities
of Digital's Alpha AXP family of workstation and servers
by making them collaboration-ready technical computing
applications. The Collaborative Computing Program permits
engineers, scientists, and researchers to be able to
collaborate using their familiar applications in a
globally-networked environment from Digital,
design/modeling results developed using software from any
participating vendor may be shared by the entire design
team even when they are geographically distributed.
"Customers are looking to increase productivity
and reduce time to market in developing new
products," said John O'Keefe, vice president of UNIX
Systems Marketing for Digital. "This program will
allow software developers to provide applications which
can be shared over the network, allows the ready exchange
of ideas with an electronic whiteboard and includes both
audio and video desktop teleconferencing facilities. This
range of collaboration offers significant cost reduction
and time savings for a wide spectrum of users."
"Collaborative computing lets users take
advantage of Alpha AXP processing power and high speed
network from Digital," said Keith Wimberley, vice
president of marketing for InSoft. "Our OpenDVE
software environment allows ISVs to add telecollaboration
features to their applications in a simple,
straightforward way, while maintaining full compatibility
with existing versions. Digital is actively recruiting
ISVs into the program for MCAD, EDA, and other scientific
and technical applications."
Digital is hosting a world-wide collaborative
computing seminar in Maynard, Massachusetts on October
25, 1994. The seminar is targeted at software architects
and developers who plan to take advantage of
Collaborative Computing software from Digital and InSoft.
Matra Datavision, developer of Euclid MCAD software,
is an early participant of the program. "We are
extremely interested in enhancing the capabilities of our
EUCLID flagship MCAD software," said Sylvain
Hochberg, Director of Matra Datavision. "Digital's
Collaborative Computing program presents an opportunity
for making EUCLID usable and a global development
environment."
Digital's workstation family, including the new DEC
3000 Model 900 system, offers the performance and
flexibility which deliver on the promises of
telecollaboration. The 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture,
high clock speeds, and high speed networking assure that
the throughput demanded in these application environments
is available to all users.
InSoft is a worldwide leader in the technology and
sales of collaborative computing, desktop conferencing
and distributed digital video solutions. Its products are
marketed directly to commercial and government end-users,
through leading systems manufacturers and value-added
resellers, for applications such as financial services,
computer-aided design, engineering and exploration,
healthcare, entertainment, legal, telecommunications, and
a myriad of other information technology applications.
Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in
open client/server solutions from personal computing to
integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's
scalable Alpha AXP platforms, storage, networking,
software and services, together with industry-focused
solutions from business partners, help organizations
compete and win in today's global marketplace.
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