PRESS RELEASE 14 May 2002

Major Third Party Developers Commit Support to Apple’s New Xserve

CUPERTINO, California - May 14th, 2002
Sybase
“We are committed to becoming the standard enterprise database running onMac OS X”, said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and general manager,Sybase Enterprise Solutions Division. “We are not only impressed with Mac OS X and its user-friendly capabilities, but equally impressed with Apple’s new generation of servers. This confirms our confidence and enthusiasm for Apple’s increasingly robust technology offering”.
HP
“We are delighted to continue our tradition of working with Apple byextending HP OpenView management software to the Mac”, said Peter van derFluit, vice president of Sales and Marketing, HP Software. “As the leader in services-driven management solutions, HP fully supports a multi-platformstrategy, which complements Apple’s embrace of industry standards andenables Apple’s Xserve to be seamlessly managed within the HP OpenViewenvironment. Working with Apple we will bring more of our services-drivenmanagement solutions to the Mac to provide our mutual customers withreliable solutions that scale to their needs”.
Adobe
“The Adobe Web Workgroup Server runs on Apple’s new Xserve and offerssophisticated collaboration and site management features that vastly improveWeb and design team productivity”, said Susan Prescott, vice president ofAdobe’s Cross-Media Group. “The combination of our powerful suite of Web publishing and design tools with Apple’s new rack-mount server offers our customers the most complete solution for Web development. We are pleased tobuild on our long standing relationship with Apple and deliver yet anotherpowerful solution to the creative community”.
4D
“Apple’s new Xserve is incredibly powerful, reliable and simple to manage”, said Laurent Ribardiere, CEO and founder of 4D. “Users will find that the combination of 4D, 4D WebSTAR V and Xserve provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge solution that fulfils all of their database and web serving needs”.
Dantz
“Dantz Retrospect provides world-class backup software for the Mac and allof our products run on Apple’s new Xserve”, stated Larry Zulch, president and CEO of Dantz Development Corporation. “We are excited that Apple has brought its industry leading ease-of-use to a powerful new rack-mountserver”.
FileMaker
“FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited is optimised to run on Mac OS X Server and take advantage of the integrated Apache Web Server”, said Dominique Goupil, FileMaker’s president. “Combined with the new Apple Xserve, Apple now delivers an even more powerful platform for deploying FileMaker solutions for business and education”.
Platform
“By supporting Mac OS X, we can leverage our 10 years of experience inproviding clustering solutions to UNIX customers to help Mac users improveproductivity, performance and ROI”, said Robert Gordon, Platform’s CEO. “The powerful combination of Apple’s new Xserve and Platform LSF workload management software enables digital content creation, higher education, government and life sciences organisations to fully utilise all of their enterprise compute resources”.
 
 
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