“Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), the leading supplier
of commercial Motif® products and support, and
Turbolinux, Inc., the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet
infrastructure solutions, today announced immediate availability of
Open Motif for Intel’s forthcoming Itanium processor-based
systems.”
“This is the first port of Motif, the industry standard GUI
toolkit for UNIX applications, for IA64 Linux on Intel Itanium
systems. Most mission-critical applications that run on UNIX use
Motif as an integral part of their application. Typical
applications that depend on Motif include aircraft ground systems
at Boeing, financial applications developed by Credit Suisse and
other investment houses, the programming control system at
DirectTV, criminal investigation support systems at the FBI, the
crew and equipment scheduling system of Southwest Airlines, control
systems for the subway systems of Boston and San Francisco and
tools developed at Walt Disney, Dreamworks and many other animation
studios. Motif is also used extensively by independent software
vendors such as Oracle and Rational Software.”
“Enterprise applications currently deployed on UNIX almost all
rely on Motif and this port will greatly accelerate the adoption of
Linux on IA64 processor systems,” said Jerry Greenberg, Senior Vice
President of Marketing for Turbolinux. “Turbolinux has been a
leader in developing Linux for IA64 and we see this step as
critical for ISVs in making their applications available on Intel’s
next-generation systems.”