"Silicon Graphics has once again raised the bar in application development," said Way Ting, vice president and general manager of Silicon Graphics' Visual Magic Division. "With RapidApp and Silicon Graphics' heritage in providing visual computing tools, developers have access to the best tools available from one, integrated source for bringing quality applications to market quickly."
"There is no substitute for RapidApp for organizations and engineers who want to remain at the fore-front of UI-development technology and also are interested in doing sophisticated 3D-graphics and simulation work using OpenGL(r) and Open Inventor(tm) like platforms," said R.D. Singh, Project Engineer for the Commercial Visual Systems Division at Lockheed-Martin Corporation.
RapidApp provides a combination of interface elements that are based on IRIS ViewKit(tm) classes and supports an object-oriented architecture. Using techniques similar to those supported by drawing editors such as Silicon Graphics' Showcase(tm), users can create, select, position and manipulate interface elements easily.
RapidApp adds to Silicon Graphics' Developer Magic Software Development Environment, which includes a superior set of libraries, tools and compilers, to provide an ideal environment for developing object-oriented applications. Based on a subset of Integrated Computer Solutions' powerful user interface builder for OSF/Motif(tm), Builder Xcessory(tm), RapidApp is specially designed for constructing typical desktop applications in which the user interface has a significant effect on the overall application architecture. In addition, applications produced by RapidApp are automatically integrated into the Indigo Magic(tm) desktop user environment.
"We see Silicon Graphics as the fastest growing workstation supplier in the country and we're pleased to work together to deliver RapidApp, " said Peter Winston, president of Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. "Clearly the combined technologies of Silicon Graphics and ICS provide UNIX development customers with superior product."
RapidApp will be available in March as an enhancement to Silicon Graphics' MegaDev product bundle which currently includes components such as Fix & Continue, for incremental application changes and an X/Motif Analyzer for debugging X11 events.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing and data server systems. The company delivers interactive three-dimensional graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical and commercial environments through direct and indirect channels. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) provides products and services that help developers working with OSF/Motif(tm) to become more productive. founded in 1987, ICS was the first company to offer training and products based on the X Window System(tm) and to supply OSF/Motif to developers working on Sun workstations. ICS is affiliated with a number of major industry groups, including the X Consortium, Open Software Foundation, and the X Users Group.
Silicon Graphics, Silicon Graphics logo, OpenGL and IRIS are registered trademarks and Developer Magic, RapidApp, IRIS ViewKit, Open Inventor and Showcase are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc. Builder Xcessory is a trademark of Integrated Computer Solutions. All other products and companies are trademarks of their respective companies.
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