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IBM: PR: Java Enhances OS/2 Warp Family of Products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy F Sipples)
Wed Mar 19 20:47:40 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 19 Mar 1997 19:37:15 GMT
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy F Sipples)
Reply-To: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy F Sipples)
Reply-to: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy F Sipples)
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Performance Increased By More Than 60 Percent
AUSTIN, Texas, February 10, 1997 . . . IBM today announced further Java**
enhancements that will be supported across the OS/2* Warp family of products,
including OS/2 Warp Server. The inclusion of Java for OS/2 Warp Server makes
it an ideal Web server in an open, networked environment, allowing users to
access Java-based applications. In addition, customers will experience a Java
performance increase of more than 60 percent in OS/2 Warp client systems.
The extension of Sun Microsystems,** Inc.'s Java v1.02 technology into both
the OS/2 client and server product line, which consists of OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2
Warp Version 3, OS/2 Warp Connect, OS/2 Warp Server and OS/2 Warp Server SMP,
provides customers with an ideal operating system solution for a network
computing environment. The Java v1.02 technology will be available across all
of these products in late February.
Top Performance for Java-Based Applications
With the availability of Java 1.02, OS/2 Warp customers will experience
performance enhancements for many Java-based applications by more than 60
percent, as measured by the CaffeineMark 2.5 performance benchmark, over the
Java v1.01 that shipped with OS/2 Warp 4.
"In testing our new Corel Office for Java under IBM's new OS/2 Warp
environment, we noticed a definite performance increase," said Dr. Michael
Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "This
platform is indeed one of the best operating system solutions in which to run
Corel Office for Java, a suite of applications that is setting the standard
for Java-based office suites, and marks another milestone in the evolution of
Java as a whole."
The inclusion of Java technology into the operating system solution allows
users to run multiple Java applets and applications on the OS/2 desktop, as
well as access Java programs through the newly released Netscape Navigator
2.02 for OS/2.
The availability of Java v1.02 for OS/2 Warp expands the market for Java based
software developers, allowing them to reach an OS/2 population of close to 15
million. Applix Inc., maker of Java-based applications and tools, agrees.
"As a Java developer, we are pleased to see that IBM is providing support for
Java across the OS/2 Warp family," said Tony Giannelli, vice president of
business development for Applix. "The enhanced Java capability for Warp opens
up an entire new customer base for us."
In addition, Java v1.02 provides tightened network security policy to protect
IP addresses and host names, keeping them within the enterprise firewall.
Through improved class interface changes, programs and applets can be
prohibited from performing unauthorized tasks that are potentially harmful to
the client system, such as overwriting files or spreading a virus.
"Java for OS/2 Warp offers increased performance, and gives our customers
another tool to help implement a networked environment," said Donn Atkins,
vice president of marketing, IBM Personal Software Products. "By extending
this technology across the OS/2 Warp family, we are enabling customers to
build network solutions on existing investments, accelerating the adoption of
Java technology in business and productivity applications."
IBM will continue to bring additional developments to OS/2 Warp customers and
developers, such as the IBM Validation Centers for Java, which allow
developers to test Java applets and applications on various systems often at
no charge. With the San Francisco project, IBM is leading the way to propel
Java into the business world. This initiative, which is supported by more
than 75 developers, is intended to produce high-level application frameworks
written in Java that can be used to build business-critical server
applications across multiple platforms, including OS/2 Warp Server.
IBM is committed to keeping OS/2 Warp developers and end-users current with
the latest available Java technology from JavaSoft, and plans to offer Java
v1.1 for OS/2 Warp 4 in the second quarter of 1997. This version will provide
international language support for customers implementing Java solutions with
OS/2 Warp 4.
Customers can download Java v1.02 at http://www.software.ibm.com. In addition,
IBM plans to include Java v1.02 in future OS/2 Warp 4 Fixpacks.
Java Moves to the Server
The addition of Java support to OS/2 Warp Server will allow IT managers to
efficiently deliver business content internally and over the Web to both
browser and non-browser based client/server systems.
"As corporations consider deploying Web-based applications, they face the
requirement for platform independent development," said Dan Kusnetzky,
research director for Unix & Advanced Operating Environments at International
Data Corporation (IDC). "At the moment, it is clear that Java is becoming one
of the platforms of choice for Web-based applications. I'm glad to see IBM
delivering the support for this technology to both the OS/2 Warp client and
server."
For example, a customer in the real estate market looking for a new home would
have the ability to query the market using a Java-based real estate search
application running on an OS/2 Warp Server network with IBM's Internet
Connection Server v4.2, which is now in beta. The customer would set the
boundaries of the query, for example: all three bedroom homes in the Austin,
Texas area, in a specified price range. OS/2 Warp Server would request this
information from a host system running a database, such as IBM's DB/2,* and
deliver the home listings that met the specified requirements back to the
customer. In this scenario, the customer's desktop operating system can be any
platform and is not required to have either Java capabilities or a
Java-enabled browser.
OS/2 Warp In A Network Computing World
OS/2 Warp is the ideal operating system solution for today's networked world,
offering customers an open business platform for heterogeneous environments.
IBM plans to move into the future with its customers by continuing to deliver
network computing enhancements and solutions for OS/2 that leverage and extend
customers' investments in client/server-based environments.
The OS/2 Warp family of products deliver today on the promise of network
computing with Internet/intranet connectivity, dependable systems management,
ease of use, scalability and now support for Java technology across the OS/2
Warp family. This family of products includes OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp Connect,
OS/2 Warp Server, OS/2 Warp Server SMP.
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Inc. All other product and service names may be trademarks and/or service
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