IBM, SCO AND SEQUENT REPORT PROJECT MONTEREY AHEAD OF SubmittedSCHEDULE by: Pleon Thursday, 8 April 1999 ..64-Bit UNIX Operating System up-and-running on Intel's Merced Simulator.. IBM, SCO and Sequent today said they have successfully completed initial tests of the Project Monterey operating system running on the Merced simulator for the Intel IA-64 architecture. Project Monterey is a high-volume, enterprise-class, commercial UNIX operating system initiative launched last October. The participants in Project Monterey declared that in less than five months of development, the prototype for the UNIX operating system for IA-64 is up and running. The testing, conducted at development centres in the United States marked the first development milestone in Project Monterey. Also unveiled today at a Project Monterey briefing were broad software vendor support, accelerated product roadmaps through 2001 and the launch of a comprehensive developer programme. The goal for Project Monterey is to establish a high-volume enterprise-class UNIX product line that runs across Intel IA-32 and IA-64 processors and IBM's Power processors in systems that range from departmental to large data centre servers. In addition, UNIX vendors conforming to the UNIX Developer's Guide-Programming Interfaces (UDG-PI) specifications are supported by the Project Monterey family. As part of the Project Monterey initiative, a UNIX operating system will be developed for Intel's IA-64 architecture using IBM's AIX operating system's enterprise capabilities complemented with technology from SCO's UnixWare operating system and Sequent's enterprise technologies. In addition, IBM will license AIX technology to SCO for inclusion in UnixWare and promote the offering in the UNIX system on IA-32 platform markets. "Project Monterey continues to build significant momentum and commitment across the entire UNIX industry," said Rajiv Samant, general manager, UNIX, IBM Corporation. "In less than five months we, in collaboration with our partners, Page 1 have delivered on one of our product development goals for the UNIX operating system on IA-64. We are also gaining unprecedented support from the software and hardware vendor communities that we will aggressively build upon. What we are doing is delivering the industry leading, high-volume, enterprise-class UNIX operating system," Samant continued. "Our customers can be assured that our goal is to help them realise benefits from volume economics, innovation and enterprise-class quality for their 32-bit and 64-bit UNIX systems." Integrated Roadmap to a IA-64 UNIX IBM, Intel, SCO and Sequent briefed industry consultants on a fully integrated product roadmap for the Monterey product line. The integration of AIX, UnixWare and Project Monterey roadmaps provides a standard environment for customers and ISVs to use today as well as to facilitate migration to the IA-64 operating system when Merced systems become available. In 1999, Sequent will re-brand its operating system "UnixWare ptx Edition" providing API and ABI compatibility with the UnixWare family of products. SCO will supplement its UnixWare 7 products with initial AIX libraries and headers for application support, as well as AIX system management enhancements. Comprehensive Developer Programme Launched The Project Monterey briefing outlined a comprehensive plan to facilitate availability of applications on the UNIX operating system for IA-64. Targeted applications written for UnixWare today on IA-32 platforms will be binary and source-compatible on IA-64-based systems. To leverage the performance advantages of the IA-64 platform, developers can simply recompile UnixWare application source code with expected minimal rewrites. Similarly, AIX applications are fully source-code-compatible with the new UNIX operating system on IA-64 platform. The Project Monterey developer programme will plan to include porting guides and a common set of APIs for IA-32, IA-64 and IBM Power processor platforms. Developers also will be able to leverage an extensive set of enterprise middleware from IBM and other software vendors who Page 2 participate. Project Monterey will offer key developers access to porting centres worldwide, as well as ongoing developer events hosted by IBM, SCO and Intel throughout the year. The porting centres will provide developers with technical support, porting/enablement, performance testing and technical education on the new UNIX operating system on IA-64. An IBM Solution Partnership Centre is expected to open later this year in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Doug Michels, president and CEO of SCO, said, "We've not only completed the initial port to Merced in record time, but we've also set up an integrated product road map and developer programme to guide our business partners in deploying this exciting high-volume UNIX system to businesses of all sizes. The Project Monterey partners already drive a huge portion of a worldwide UNIX System business that totals billions of dollars every year, and our momentum continues to increase as other OEMs and ISVs join Project Monterey." Casey Powell, Chairman and CEO of Sequent said, "Project Monterey offers customers the ability to build IT infrastructure on a single data centre class UNIX operating system without the risk that comes with being tied to one vendor and one world view. As part of Project Monterey and with UnixWare ptx Edition we deliver a proven platform with an expansive roadmap for 32-bit and 64-bit systems and broad multi-vendor compatibility." Industry Support from OEMs and ISVs John Miner, vice president, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Server Division, said: "Project Monterey is an important product initiative for the UNIX market with its focus on providing a high volume UNIX operating. This is a major milestone. We are thrilled that the Monterey team has accomplished so much in such a short time. It is clear that Monterey is now on track to intercept Merced production." In less than five months, Project Monterey has garnered support from nearly all major ISVs in the database, business intelligence, e-business and enterprise resource planning business segments. They include: Baan Company, BEA Systems, daly.commerce, Data Pro Accounting Software, Geac SmartEnterprise Solutions, Informix, Infospace, ISOCOR, Page 3 Marcam Solutions, Micro Focus, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell, Pick Systems, Platinum Technology, Progress Software, Real World, Risk Management Technology, Sanchez Computer Associates, Sapiens International Corporation N.V., SAS Institute, Sendmail, Software AG, TakeFive and TIBCO. Project Monterey also has garnered support from hardware suppliers including Acer, CETIA ( a subsidiary of Thomson-CF), Bull, IBM RS/6000, IBM Netfinity, ICL, Sequent Computer Systems and Unisys Computer Systems. Unix Developer's Guide- Programming Interface In a separate initiative, a group of industry leaders, including IBM, Intel, Sequent and SCO, has also announced the UNIX Developer's Guide - Programming Interfaces. The UDG-PI is a collaborative effort to develop and publish guidelines that software developers and system manufacturers can use for UNIX operating systems running on the Intel microprocessor architecture. These guidelines are designed to help reduce development, maintenance and test costs for software developers and system manufacturers. Additional information on IBM and UNIX can be found at http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix. An Enterprise Class Volume UNIX System "Large organisations depend upon standards-based, interoperable, scalable, manageable operating environments," said Dan Kusnetzky, director of operating environment and serverware research at International Data Corporation (IDC). "As these organisations adopt today's high-end Intel IA32-based systems and tomorrow's IA64-based systems, these operating environments become even more important. After all, over 50 percent of all UNIX server operating environments ran on Intel-based systems in 1998." According to IDC, the UnixWare operating system is currently the fastest growing UNIX server operating environment in the industry. By 2002, IDC predicts the UNIX market for Intel processor-based systems will double in volume and triple in revenue. Ref: 99/096 Page 4 Editors notes For more information on Project Monterey visit: IBM : www.ibm.com/servers/monterey SCO: www.sco.com/monterey Sequent: http://www.sequent.com/products/software/operatingsys/monterey.html Trademarks: IBM, AIX, Netfinity and RS/6000 are trademarks of IBM Corporation. SCO, the SCO logo and UnixWare are registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. Sequent is a registered trademark of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of and are used to identify products or services of their respective owners. IBM Systems Marketing Group Established in January 1998, the IBM Systems Marketing Group brings together the marketing and sales functions for IBM's four server offerings (AS/400, RS/6000, Netfinity and System 390). The move is aimed at offering customers greater clarity in choosing the right solution running across the right platform. The importance which customers attach to certain solutions is reflected within the new Systems Marketing Group. The group includes solution units geared towards ERP, business intelligence solutions, Notes & Web server and server consolidation solutions Media Contact: Nick Davis PR Manager, Systems Marketing Group, IBM Northern Region 01256 344689 [email protected] Greg Mills/Louisa Judge on behalf of IBM Page 5 01753 790700 gmills/[email protected] Page 6 Distributed via Press Release Wire (https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/) on behalf of Pleon Copyright © 1999-2021 ResponseSource, The Johnson Building, 79 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8AW, UK e: [email protected] t: 020 3426 4051 f: 0345 370 7776 w: https://www.responsesource.com.