lorne@pensoft.UUCP (Lorne Wilson) (11/03/90)
Contact: Pam O'Neal Pencom Software 512/ 343-1111 pensoft!pam@cs.utexas.edu Winnie Shows Smith & Shows 415/329-8880 PENCOM SOFTWARE BRINGS X TO NeXT New York -- October 31, 1990 -- Pencom Software today announced plans to port and market the MIT X Consortium's X11.R4 and the Open Software Foundation's Motif 1.1 on the NeXT Computer System. The product will be available directly from Pencom Software early next year and will provide a full X11.R4 server running within NeXTstep, NeXT's Display Postscript-based graphical user interface. The server will be capable of supporting standard X11.R4 clients and applications and will provide NeXT machine users with the graphical connectivity critical to functioning in today's heterogeneous networking environment. Pencom has designed this X-server to coexist in the NeXTstep environment, allowing the execution of X applications and X public domain software. Users will have the capability to develop and use both NeXTstep and X applications. Pencom will also offer and support Motif 1.1 on the NeXT platform. According to Pencom Software's President Ed Taylor, "Our goal is to provide seamless integration of the X window system and NeXTstep, allowing NeXT users to have the best of both worlds. Pencom will provide support services as well as additional functionality for the product." Pencom's Austin facility is fully equipped with a variety of hardware platforms and uses NeXT computers for product development. "Ours is one of the few internal development environments consisting of a large network of NeXT Computer Systems," Taylor continued. Pencom Software, a division of Pencom Systems, was the quality assurance consultant for the recent Lotus 1-2-3 port to UNIX System V and offers a complete range of off-site development, porting, testing, and quality assurance services from within its state-of-the-art facilities in Austin, Texas. The firm recently contributed the X terminal performance evaluation and cover story for the October issue of UNIXWorld magazine. Pencom Software is located at: 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Ste. 300 Austin, TX 78759 Telephone: 512/343-1111 Fax: 512/343-9650 Electronic Mail: pensoft!jeff@cs.utexas.edu. Motif is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation NeXT and NeXTstep are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.