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- Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux gets Common Desktop Environment
- From: "John W. Christy" <john@et2.etools.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 23:25:19 GMT
- Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Linux gets Common Desktop Environment Executive Tools, Inc. proudly announces the upcoming release of ET Desktop. ET Desktop is Executive Tools' port of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) for Linux. CDE is a graphical user interface and application toolbox that is or will soon be provided by major UNIX system vendors, including DEC, IBM, HP, Sun and others. It is an application framework giving software developers the ability to create attractive, portable, machine-independent applications with exceptional ease. In the past, making platform independent, portable code required developers to compromise on the the graphical quality of their applications. The CDE framework almost completely eliminates this problem except in only the most highly specialized applications. CDE gives users the intuitive "point and click" and "drag and drop" power that consumers have come to expect and demand. It also shields them from the complexities of the operating system, which UNIX and UNIX-like environments have been historically criticized for. Now this exciting new work environment is being made available on Linux. Linux is emerging as a robust, full-featured UNIX system. As Executive Tools outfits Linux with the new industry standard Common Desktop Environment, Linux will become the system of choice of serious application developers who are trying to get the most performance at the lowest possible cost. CDE-enabled Linux allows development houses that have been PC-based to leverage their existing Intel compatible machine investment. With ET Linux, developers can make easy forays into powerful UNIX workstation markets without the heavy burden of purchasing new, expensive UNIX workstations. With the Executive Tools' port of the Common Desktop Environment, "big-iron" UNIX workstation applications will have unprecedented portability into the PC-based world and vice versa. Buying UNIX for every PC in a company has always been expensive; but with Linux, that is no longer the case. Support is available and the ET Desktop is here. Having the Common Desktop Environment on all UNIX machines in a company, regardless of their manufacturer, makes support and training easier and less expensive. Now even a corporation's PC's can share the same look and feel with the company's more expensive, high powered workstations. For more information visit Executive Tools' Web site http://www.etools.com or call (800) 864-5150. ### All product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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