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Industry Praise
MandrakeSoft, publisher of the Linux-Mandrake operating system observed:
"Our enterprise customers and major ISVs requested a Linux-Mandrake optimized version of Motif to support the porting of their applications," said Frederic Bastok, Co-founder and Product Manager of MandrakeSoft. "Based on ICS's leadership and expertise in Motif, they were the ideal partner to help us supply this port of Open Motif." (December 4, 2000)Turbolinux, in speaking about the joint announcement with ICS of a port of Open Motif to the Intel ia64
"Enterprise applications currently deployed on UNIX almost all rely on Motif and this [ICS] port will greatly accelerate the adoption of Linux on IA64 processor systems," said Jerry Greenberg, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Turbolinux. (November 26, 2000)The Open Group, owners of the Motif intellectual property:
"Almost two years ago, we decided to employ ICS to support our Motif source code licensees," said Howard Greenwell, Director of Business Development for The Open Group. "They have provided consistently high quality support to our customers throughout the duration of the agreement, and I am confident that they will continue to provide excellent support services through their expanded support offering to the users of Open Motif." (May 15, 2000)Cygnus, now a Red Hat company commenting on the Editor's Choice Award by The Linux Journal:
"For Linux developers wanting a Visual C++ equivalent, the combination of Cygnus Code Fusion and BX PRO from ICS provides an ideal solution," said Tom Barton, senior vice president, Cygnus Solutions. "We're delighted that the Editors of Linux Journal recognized our ongoing efforts with ICS to provide Linux developers with the best software development environment." (November 16, 1999)Cygnus, on the announcement of the partnership with ICS:
"Cygnus recently introduced Code Fusion as an IDE that supports open source software development, because we are committed to meeting the needs of Linux software developers," said Tom Barton, senior vice president, Cygnus Solutions. "Our partnership with ICS extends the functionality of Code Fusion to meet the requirements of developers wanting GUI builder tools." (October 12, 1999)SuSE, an international technology leader and solutions provider for Linux and open source software:
"One of our goals is to ensure that corporate developers have the best available tools to do their job on Linux," said Marc Torres, President of SuSE "We're pleased that this focus has paid off in ICS porting the industry's leading GUI builder for Motif to SuSE Linux. This will help speed the adoption of Linux by mission critical developers, many of which use ICS' BX PRO." (May 4, 1999)Red Hat, the leading Linux distribution:
"The availability of professional development tools on Linux, like ICS' Builder Xcessory, a leading GUI builder for UNIX workstations, is a continued indication of the momentum of Linux's adoption in mission critical development environments," said Bob Young, CEO of Red Hat. (April 5, 1999)The Open Group selects ICS to provide Technical Support for its Motif licensees:
Paul Dale, Senior Vice President of the Research Institute and Development at The Open Group said, "Our customers and The Open Group both benefit from the new arrangement with ICS. Because ICS has amply demonstrated its expertise in the Motif technology and shown consistent leadership in supporting Motif developers, ICS was a natural choice to provide our customers with the same high level of service." (August 24, 1998)Santa Cruz Operation, commenting on release of 5.0 of Builder Xcessory PRO:
Ray Anderson, Sr. VP of Marketing of SCO, called Builder Xcessory PRO, "...an unparalleled tool for UNIX development." (June 9, 1998)Silicon Graphics (SGI) recommends that RapidApp users upgrade to Builder Xcessory PRO:
Beth Dawson, Developer Magic Product Manager for Silicon Graphics (SGI) commented, "SGI's relationship with ICS dates back to 1994, so we have long-term experience with and knowledge of the high caliber of ICS' products and the kind of reliability that can be expected from these products. After working closely with ICS during the development of BX PRO 5.0, we can confidently recommend that customers of our own GUI builder, RapidApp, upgrade to BX PRO. ICS' ability to consistently maintain technology leadership in visual development tools is key to our making this recommendation." (June 9, 1998)The Santa Cruz Operation comments on ICS's leadership in user interface development:
"ICS has always been the leader in professional user interface development tools," said Mick Adamson, vice president and general manager, SCO. (October 29, 1997)The Open Group comments on the creation of the MotifZone:
David Knorr, Desktop Business Manager for The Open Group, commented, "... ICS created an extremely informative website dedicated solely to the X Window System(tm) and Motif. This action clearly illustrates ICS' long-standing and continuing commitment to Motif developers and their organizations. The Open Group applauds ICS for stepping forward and taking on this responsibility."(October 20, 1997)Mnemonic Systems, Inc, built a mission critical application for the FBI:
Bob Smith, Systems Analyst of Mnemonic Systems, Inc., of Washington, D.C., said, "We are using Database Xcessory to design a forensic ballistics analysis and identification decision support system. We selected Database Xcessory because of its native use of the X Window System and Motif, its intuitive and thorough GUI for building applications, the ease of creating C++ classes, the speed of application development, and the cost -- no run time royalties!"Smith continued, "I am also very pleased with ICS' technical support. I estimate that Database Xcessory will save us 60 to 70% of the time it takes to prototype, test and code our applications, giving us more time to design a superior product. That helps us help the good guys catch the bad guys." (September 2, 1997)
Data Sciences BV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands commented on their user of Database Xcessory (DX):
Adrian Holland, Analyst Programmer, said, "I used DX to create a flexible graphical interface to display current and historical meteorological data stored in an Oracle database. DX allowed me to create a fast, responsive display as a prototype within a few days. I found that the speed of database access with DX was two to five times faster than that of Oracle Forms." (September 2, 1997)Inter-National Research Institute, ViewKit and BX WIN/SDK customer:
We expected that porting to NT would take three to six months," said Stephen Shell, Senior Software Engineer at Inter-National Research Institute. "Instead, using ICS' BX/Win SDK, it took an engineer only two weeks." Shell added, "We were very impressed with the porting time as well as the few code changes that were required to port a major Motif and ViewKit client/server mapping application to Windows NT." (June 16, 1997)Hewlett Packard decides to partner with ICS to present Java training:
"HP is particularly pleased to be partnering with such a well-regarded training organization as ICS to present the extremely popular Java programming classes," said Richard W. Sevcik, vice president and general manager, HP Systems Technology Group. (November 4, 1996)Sun Microsystems discusses ICS's training capabitilies:
"The Authorized Education Center program of SunSoft is designed to ensure that our customers are provided with the best training possible," said Jay Coleman, Director of SunSoft Support Services. "ICS has been selected as an AEC because it has consistently proven its ability to deliver high-quality training in the Java language. Feedback by attendees of the courses have been overwhelming positive. For all of these reasons, we're glad to welcome ICS to the select group of companies who we entrust with this important mission of training." (May 20, 1996)Sun Microsystems on selecting ICS to train their support staff:
"The explosive interest in Java created a need for Sun to quickly bring our support teams up to speed on this technology," said Joe Keller, Director of Marketing. "To accelerate this process, we looked outside our organization for the best training we could find. ICS's long-standing experience in training developers on emerging technologies, as well as its high degree of Java expertise, made the choice easy. With our first round of ICS Java training successfully completed, we have asked them to take on the task of training worldwide." (March 25, 1996)SGI applauds ICS's ViewKit product:
"Developers are challenged more than ever to meet end-users' standard for graphical interfaces," said Doug Young at Silicon Graphics. "ViewKit's object-oriented architecture and reusable component model saves time and investment by raising the level at which developers work." (May 22, 1995)The X Journal discusses the rational for awarding Builder Xcessory Editor's Choice Award:
"Builder Xcessory is the best and most advanced Motif GUI builder tool available today, combined with one of the best values for the price," said Steven Mikes, editor of the X Journal. Mikes adds, "Builder Xcessory represents a high standard in quality and technical excellence which is why it was selected for this award." (March 22, 1995)NASA comments on the selection of Builder Xcessory for their Transportable Payload Operations Control Center (TPOCC):
Harshna Sampat, senior computer scientist at Computer Sciences Corporation said, "In building the TPOCC, it was critical that we were able to work with tools which allowed us to reuse software components, as well as adhere to industry standards. In this respect, Builder Xcessory has responded to our needs." (December 5, 1994)Northwest Natural Gas also provides a comment on BX:
"We chose Builder Xcessory because it takes the Doug Young approach to mixing C Motif and C++ GUI design, giving us a first-class C and C++ development tool," said Darci Chapman, Application System Specialist. (November 29, 1993)Digital Equipment on recommending its VUIT customers upgrade to Builder Xcessory:
"Digital is dedicated to supplying our customers with the best products and services on the market," said David Creed, Digital Software Products Services manager. "Our VUIT customers will now have the benefits of ICS's leading Motif GUI tools and support for their computing environments of choice including OpenVMS VAX, OpenVMS Alpha AXP, OSF/1 Alpha AXP, and RISC/ULTRIX." (June 7, 1993)Open Software Foundation discusses the selection of ICS for enhancement to OSF/Motif:
"We contracted with ICS for the next version of OSF/Motif because of their extensive expertise in working with Motif technology" said Cathy Betz, business area manager for Motif. (February 8, 1993)CASEBridge, a technical CASE consulting group commented on Builder Xcessory:
"With BX we became Motif programmers within one week, and consdire it to be not only the highest quality application builder, but the best education tool on the market," said Bob Garnero, vice president and CTO of CASEbridge. (November 18, 1991)
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