"Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), the leading supplier
of commercial OSF/Motif products and support, and MandrakeSoft,
publisher of the Linux-Mandrake operating system, today announced
the immediate availability of Open Motif optimized for the
Linux-Mandrake operating system. The port of this toolkit to
Linux-Mandrake was the result of a joint development effort by
MandrakeSoft and ICS."
"The Motif toolkit is used by corporate developers to create
custom, mission critical applications that are not available
"off-the-shelf." When a Boeing airplane flies, a financial
transaction is performed on Wall Street, a subway train of the
Boston MBTA or San Francisco's BART is switched onto the right
track, a network communication problem is diagnosed and bypassed by
US West, a family is entertained by the latest animated movie from
Walt Disney or Dreamworks, a US defense system built by Lockheed is
tested in a drill or real combat, or a spacecraft is launched into
space by NASA, the custom software that made it all possible
probably employed the Motif toolkit to build the user
interface."
"Our enterprise customers and major ISVs requested a
Linux-Mandrake optimized version of Motif to support the porting of
their applications," said Frederic Bastok, Co-founder and Product
Manager of MandrakeSoft. "Based on ICS's leadership and expertise
in Motif, they were the ideal partner to help us supply this port
of Open Motif."