WILLOW TECHNOLOGY ENHANCES MQSERIES
FOR SCO OPENSERVER
New Version Supports Legacy
Applications
SANTA CLARA, California—August 31, 2001--Willow Technology, Inc., the leading
independent provider of MQSeries client and server products, announced today
that its new version of MQSeries for SCO OpenServer allows customers with legacy
OpenServer applications to easily integrate with MQSeries.
SCO OpenServer supports two development systems. The OpenServer
Development System (ODS) has been available for many years and is the
development environment used for the majority of OpenServer applications and
third party libraries. SCO introduced a new cross platform development system,
the UnixWare and OpenServer Development Kit (also referred to as the UDK or UODK), a few years ago. The goal of the UDK was to provide a common
development system for SCO OpenServer, UnixWare 2 and UnixWare 7. Binaries
created with the UDK are able to run unmodified on any of the three operating
systems. The binary formats supported by the ODS and UDK are different,
and cannot be mixed.
Previous versions of MQSeries on SCO OpenServer required customers to
interface their applications with MQSeries using the UDK. This has worked well
for new application development, and for those customers willing to move their
applications to the new development system. However, customers with large
application bases built on the older ODS, or those customers dependent on older
third parties libraries that do not support the UDK have faced expensive or
technically complex solutions to interfacing with MQSeries.
Version 5.0.5 of MQSeries for SCO OpenServer adds support for the OpenServer
Development System by providing ODS compatible coff format archive libraries and
elf format shared objects in addition to the existing UDK compatible libraries.
The new enhancements will make it vastly easier for customers dependent on the
ODS to integrate their applications with MQSeries.
Availability
Version 5.0.5 of Willow's MQSeries for SCO OpenServer will begin shipping
early in September, 2001. Customers with maintenance agreements will receive the
new version automatically.
About MQSeries
MQSeries, the most widely used message-queuing software on the market,
enables users to exchange information between applications across more than 35
different platforms, from mainframes to PCs. This award-winning software enables
business integration throughout the enterprise, allowing companies to maximize
e-business opportunities by leveraging existing resources to improve
speed-to-market and anticipate IT changes as their business changes. Management.
For more information on MQSeries, visit www.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries.
About Willow Technology
Willow Technology, Inc. is the leading independent provider of fully
compliant MQSeries client and server products, developed under license from IBM.
Willow sells and supports both its own and IBM's MQSeries products, and offers
system integration, custom development, proof of concept and consultancy
services for MQSeries. Willow can be reached at: phone +1-408-296-7400; fax
+1-408-296-7700; e-mail info@willowtech.com, or visit www.willowtech.com.
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