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Transitive(R) Ships QuickTransit(R) for Solaris(TM)/x86 With Adobe(R) Reader(R) to Improve PDF Capabilities for Solaris Customers Using x86 Platforms
Cross-Platform Virtualization Leader Transitive Delivers the Benefits of the World's Most Popular PDF Reader Prior to Release of Natively-Compiled Version in 2009
| Source: Transitive
LOS GATOS, CA--(Marketwire - September 9, 2008) - Transitive® Corporation, the leading
provider of cross-platform virtualization solutions, today announced the
release of QuickTransit® for Solaris™/x86 with Adobe® Reader®, a
free product that allows users of the Solaris/x86 operating system to enjoy
the full functionality of the popular Adobe Reader software from Adobe. The
new product will remain available until Adobe ships its version of Adobe
Reader for Solaris/x86 in 2009.
QuickTransit for Solaris/x86 with Adobe Reader is delivered as a single
file that is quick and easy to install, and can be downloaded from the
Transitive Web site at: http://www.transitive.com/reader.
QuickTransit for Solaris/x86 with Adobe Reader addresses the needs of many
users of the Solaris/x86 operating system to view Portable Document Format
(PDF) files. While some limited-functionality PDF viewing tools are
available for Solaris/x86, there is currently not a natively-compiled
version of Adobe Reader for that operating system with the full
functionality that users have come to expect on other platforms.
QuickTransit for Solaris/x86 with Adobe Reader solves this problem by
allowing the Solaris/SPARC version of Adobe Reader 8.1.2 to run unmodified
on Solaris/x86 platforms.
"Transitive's solution to this customer need is elegant, simple and -- best
of all -- free," said Ian Robinson, vice-president of marketing for
Transitive. "QuickTransit for Solaris/x86 with Adobe Reader can be
downloaded and installed quickly and easily to provide comprehensive PDF
viewing and printing capabilities for any Solaris/x86 user."
QuickTransit for Solaris/x86 with Adobe Reader allows Solaris/x86 users to
take advantage of unique Adobe Reader 8.1.2 functionality that is not
available in low-end PDF viewers, such as Web browser plug-in support, 3D
rendering support, encryption, the validation of digitally-signed documents
and the ability to save completed forms. Transitive's cross-platform
virtualization implementation ensures that the execution of this
Solaris/SPARC software on an x86-based platform remains invisible to the
end user.
"Adobe welcomes this innovative solution provided by Transitive," said
Steve Gottwals, group product manager for Adobe Reader. "We encourage Adobe
Reader customers using Solaris/x86 systems to consider taking advantage of
this solution until our forthcoming Adobe Reader 9 for Solaris/x86 ships in
2009."
The new Transitive product is derived from the popular QuickTransit for
Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Solaris™/x86-64, a powerful enterprise
cross-platform virtualization solution capable of running a broad range of
commercial, open source and internally-developed Solaris/SPARC workloads.
Other products in Transitive's enterprise cross-platform virtualization
product line include QuickTransit for
Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 and QuickTransit for
Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/Itanium®.
To address the most typical customer deployments, Transitive offers three
configurations of its QuickTransit product line: QuickTransit Workstation
is intended for use on desktop and laptop PCs; QuickTransit Server is used
for large-scale datacenter consolidation projects; and QuickTransit Legacy
is a specialized version for application re-hosting from very old legacy
hardware running operating system versions that are no longer supported.
Evaluation versions of QuickTransit can be downloaded from the Transitive
Web site at:
http://www.transitive.com/evaluate.
QuickTransit for Solaris/x86 with Adobe Reader demonstrates how
cross-platform virtualization can increase the platform coverage of
applications without requiring the development of a new port. Many
independent software vendors (ISVs) have taken advantage of QuickTransit to
make their Solaris/SPARC applications immediately available for the
rapidly-growing installed base of x86 systems, thereby increasing their
addressable market, while avoiding the expense and delays typically
associated with porting projects. Customers of those ISVs benefit from
increased hardware choices, while the ISVs can maintain the efficiencies of
focusing their development, testing and support efforts on a single code
base.
About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is a leader in cross-platform virtualization, and its
award-winning QuickTransit technology is built into more than 15 million
computers worldwide. QuickTransit allows software applications that have
been compiled for one processor and operating system to run on systems with
different processors and operating systems, without any source code or
binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports. As a result,
QuickTransit allows IT managers to quickly and easily replicate legacy
enterprise applications from the original hardware and run them on modern,
standardized platforms without incurring the costs and delays of porting
projects, and without disruption to end users. This workload replication
helps enterprise customers improve business continuity, including superior
disaster recovery, scalability and high-availability solutions.
Transitive's cross-platform virtualization technology is the foundation for
Apple's Rosetta translation software (built into Apple's Intel-based
Macintosh computers) and also for PowerVM Lx86, which is available for all
IBM Power Systems enterprise servers. Transitive Corporation is located in
Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester,
UK. More information can be found at Transitive's Web site at
www.transitive.com.
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