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LINUX AND FREEBSD OPEN MOTIF DISTRIBUTIONS RELEASED BY IMPERIAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY
Imperial Software Technology Appointed by The Open Group to Prepare Motif Source for Public Licensing
Palo Alto, California, May 17, 2000 - Imperial Software Technology (IST) today announced
that it has released distributions of Open Motif® for Linux® and FreeBSD. The Open Motif
distribution is available for use, reproduction and distribution on these Open Source operating
systems without payment of royalties. IST was contracted by The Open Group to prepare the source
code of Motif for release as Open Motif.
"As the creators of X-Designer®, the world's leading Motif GUI builder, we're
delighted to have assisted The Open Group in preparing Open Motif for release,"
said Derek Lambert, CEO of Imperial Software Technology.
"The advent of Open Motif extends the reach of standards-based, professional user
interface technology to the new free operating system platforms which will materially
assist in the acceptance of Linux and FreeBSD in the corporate networked application
environment."
"As the graphical user interface toolkit of choice on UNIX® systems,
Motif is the most successful technology available today for heterogeneous platforms,"
said Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group.
"We want to support the momentum of Open Source operating systems such as Linux®
and FreeBSD by developing an Open Motif® licence for use with Open Source
operating systems."
IST brings more than ten years of engineering experience of the X Window System and Motif to bear
on supporting graphical application building on UNIX and other X platforms through the development
of X-Designer, the leading Motif GUI builder. The classic "how to" work on programming
Motif 1.2, Advanced Motif Programming Techniques, was written by two IST personnel. More recently,
the latest version (February 2000) of the standard work on Motif, O'Reilly Volume 6B, Motif Reference
Manual for Motif 2.1, was written by Antony Fountain, a Principal Software Engineer with IST.
Pricing and Availability of Open Motif
Open Motif is free of charge to use on operating system platforms that are themselves free, such as
Linux and FreedBSD. The binary distributions for Red Hat Linux 6.1 and FreeBSD 3.4 are available for
download now from IST's Motif page. The source may
be downloaded from The Open Group website at www.opengroup.org/openmotif
The Open Motif license may be found at www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license
About Imperial Software Technology
Imperial Software Technology (IST) is an innovative software engineering company specializing in
enabling the "dot economy" with leading edge technology products and engineering services.
IST's specialties include Internet infrastructure technologies and information presentation systems
for a wide range of platforms from Linux and UNIX workstations to hand-held and wireless devices.
X-Designer, IST's award-winning graphical user interface builder product,
is the leading product in its class.
IST's Visaj visual builder for Java is integrated and delivered with a number of third-party products.
Founded in 1982, IST ranks major corporations in finance, technology, aerospace, telecommunications,
defense and government in a prestigious customer and client list. The company is privately held and
is based in Palo Alto, California, and Reading, United Kingdom.
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X-Designer is a registered trademark and IST and the IST logo are trademarks of Imperial Software
Technology Limited. Visaj is a trademark of Pacific Imperial, Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java,
JavaBeans, 100% Pure Java, Java WorkShop and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. X Window System is a trademark and UNIX
and Motif are registered trademarks of The Open Group. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks
of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks of
their respective owners. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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