Windows
The second cornerstone of the new SIRS is our port to the latest in Windows technology.
Most of the major players in the Tier One marketplace developed their products in the 80's so many
of their products were designed to run on character-based terminals connected to large relational databases.
As larger corporations have moved to client/server environments the character-based terminals have been
replaced with PC's often running Windows. This has caused a scramble by our competition who had large
investments in their character products. Based on these investments, most firms have chosen to "front-end"
their 80's products with graphical runners rather than re-engineer their applications. DSS has chosen to
re-engineer SIRS to take advantage of the latest in Window and client/server technology. The new SIRS
product, available in Q2 '95, features:
- Windows '95 compatibility (32-bit)
- MAPI, VIM, MHS, SMTP
- Supports true client/server deployment
- Use OLE and OLE automation
- Based on Object Oriented language
- Native SQL Connectivity
- ODBC access to over 15 different databases
- Integrate to EIS, data warehouse, Lotus Notes
- Runs on Novell, Windows NT and UNIX servers
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