BW: Bristol Technology Inc. Announces Wind/U for Linux and the First Linux Porting Center | Linux Today

BW: Bristol Technology Inc. Announces Wind/U for Linux and the First Linux Porting Center

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 30, 1999

“Bristol Technology Inc.(R) today released its award-winning
Wind/U(R) cross-platform development tools on Linux(R). Also
launched today is the first porting center for moving Microsoft
(NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows applications to Linux. Bristol offers
cross-platform expertise and tools for quickly assessing the best
way to get an application running on Linux.”

Wind/U for Linux enables developers to compile Microsoft
Win32 API and MFC source code directly on Linux, and create native,
desktop and server-based Linux applications.
Wind/U for Linux
includes support for Microsoft Windows technologies such as MFC 6
and COM. Bristol is also providing ports of the RogueWave (NASDAQ:
RWAV) Stingray Visual C++ components on Linux for use with
Wind/U.”

“Bristol’s Linux Porting Center will help companies determine
the effort required to port to Linux. The Linux Porting Center
offers expertise in Wind/U porting as well as native Linux
development for a full service porting solution. The Porting Center
also provides hands-on training in Linux development.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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