Message-Id: <mailto:199502061651.KAA13097@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 11:45:11 -0500 From: Sandeep Somaiya <mailto:sandeep@NEXT2.VTLS.COM> Subject: Press Release: VTLS INFOSTATION TO RUN ON NEXT, INTEL, HP, To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
NEWS RELEASE
February 6, 1995 Contact: Gail Gulbenkian
VTLS Inc.
1800 Kraft Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (703) 231-3605
VTLS INFOSTATION TO RUN ON NEXT, INTEL, HP, SUN AND DEC MACHINES
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.--The VTLS InfoStation, a multimedia
information access system and front end to online public access
catalogs, will soon be running on two more major hardware platforms.
Currently, InfoStation runs on Motorola-based NeXT hardware, on Intel-
based 486 and Pentium machines, and on RISC-based Hewlett-Packard 700
series workstations. InfoStation will soon be running on SPARC
processor-based hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. and on Alpha AXP-
based hardware from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
VTLS President Vinod Chachra said that he was delighted with Sun's
and more recently DEC's decision to support the operating system that
the InfoStation uses. "We started developing products based on
NEXTSTEP more than five years ago," Chachra said. "We thought that
its underlying concepts and technology were the very best available
in the marketplace. The decisions by HP, SUN and now DEC to support
the NEXTSTEP operating system and the OPENSTEP standard adds momentum
to the implementation of an excellent technology."
The multimedia VTLS InfoStation features hypermedia links and
annotative and authoring capabilities for library automation. It
provides seamless integration between bibliographic and multimedia
information, letting online public catalog users retrieve audio,
textual, graphical, animated and full-motion video objects linked to
cataloged items. In addition, users can access information on the
World Wide Web.
Integrated fully with image scanners and OCR software, the
InfoStation can also serve as an image browser for an online catalog
linked to scanned documents. With the browser, users can search for,
view, magnify and edit scanned images that reflect a variety of image
formats and compression schemes.
The InfoStation supports multiple distributed databases via TCP/IP
and multimedia objects on the network via NFS, FTP and Novell
NetWare. It will soon support the Z39.50 protocol.
Clients currently using the VTLS InfoStation include Princeton
University, National Agricultural Library, National Library of
Switzerland and the Library of Virginia.
VTLS Inc. is an international software company with head offices
in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A., and branch offices in Helsinki
and Barcelona. The company specializes in library automation and
provides an integrated solution to all aspects of library
operations for 300 users worldwide.
(InfoStation is a trademark of VTLS Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP
are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Novell and NetWare are
registered trademarks of Novell, Inc.Sun, SPARC and NFS are
trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. Alpha AXP is a trademark of
Digital Equipment Corporation. Pentium is a trademark of Intel
Corporation.)
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Sandeep Somaiya
VTLS Inc.