“Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), the leading supplier
of commercial Motif products and support, announced the immediate
availability of the first upgrade to its existing Open Motif
Everywhere distribution. This upgrade includes the first bug fixes
generated by the Open Source Community and also includes
improvements for those wishing to build their own versions of Open
Motif from source code.”
“Open Motif Everywhere is the ICS distribution of Open Motif
built from the official Open Group sources. ICS is making the
binaries and sources to Open Motif Everywhere available for free
download through ICS’ Open Motif portal site, http://www.motifzone.net. A CD-ROM
distribution, containing binaries for most popular Linux and
FreeBSD distributions, Open Motif source code, Adobe PDF versions
of the official Motif 2.1 Manual set and email installation support
is available through the MotifZone and popular Linux retailers such
as Linux Mall. Annual support contracts are offered for commercial
customers.”
“One of the benefits of open source, is that developers
worldwide can review source code, fix bugs and extend the
functionality of a piece of software,” said Mark Hatch, Chief
Operating Officer, ICS. “Within 3 days of The Open Group making
Open Motif available, there were already two bugs found and fixed
by the Open Source community. This demonstrates once again the
power of the open source concept!”