Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce New and Enhanced ENOVIA Solutions
by Anne-Marie Michels

On May 3, 2001, Dassault Systemes and IBM announced new and enhanced ENOVIA solutions.

The announcement includes:

• major enhancements to ENOVIA Portal Solutions Version 5 Release 6 (V5R6)
• major enhancements to ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 4 (V1R4)
• and the introduction of the next generation of ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications (LCA) V5R6

With 28 new products, ENOVIA provides solutions that are the most comprehensive collaborative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities in the industry.

At the heart of ENOVIA Solutions is an industry-leading information hub: the Product Process Resource (PPR) hub. It is in the form of a unique object and knowledge model. This open hub enables the continuous, dynamic simulation of product performance, and manages the effects of changes on the product and on its processes and resources. It therefore helps reduce dramatically development cycles and increases innovation.

Customers immediately benefit from these solutions, by implementing and deploying best practices for innovation in an open, knowledge-based environment that links companies, their customers and their suppliers.

Let's see more in detail the contents of this May 2001 announcement, only a few months after the previous release:

First of all, enhancements to ENOVIA Portal Solutions, with nine new products, promote Web-centric 3d e-business collaboration, innovation and decision?making. In complex and heterogeneous IT environments, ENOVIA Portal V5R6 provides new scientific knowledge applications and content, driving greater innovation during design. Its enhanced 3D collaboration capabilities include human modeling and simulation functions, and a virtual reality environment for immersive review.

Second important part of the announcement relates to ENOVIAVPM. ENOVIAVPM is the industry-leading solution for advanced Virtual Product Development Management (VPDM). As such, it enables companies to implement innovative practices that leverage the value of configured digital mock-up for product definition, configuration and management throughout the entire product life cycle.

In this release, with ENOVIAVPM V1R4, is provided support of 3D collaborative product development in the extended enterprise through distributed multi-site capabilities extended multi-CAD capabilities through enhanced CATIA V5 interoperability to support relational design and associative change propagation.

Last but not least, ENOVIA LCA V5R6 concludes this announcement. ENOVIA LCA (for Life Cycle Applications) provides enterprise PLM solutions, developed in cooperation with major manufacturers in all industry sectors that are ready-to-use, and based on industry-best practices.

This release includes 19 new, next-generation collaborative products that support:

• engineering change control
• document management
• configured design and manufacturing product definition
• variant management
• and standards-compliant data exchange

Through the exploitation of the Dassault Systemes' Component Application Architecture (CAA), an industry-standard, ENOVIA Rapid Application Development Environment (RADE) enables fast customization, development, integration and deployment of applications.

For more information on ENOVIA Solutions, visit www.enovia.com or www.dsweb.com.

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CATIA Interoperability Project Office

Integration of various CAD/CAM systems is a challenge that many companies face. Successful integration of these systems is often critical when trying to maintain high product quality and aggressive development schedules.

The CATIA Interoperability Project Office (CIPO) was established to support all customers with mixed CATIA V4/V5 environments. The CIPO can assist customers with these environments by providing the following services:

• CATIA AIX/NT integration workshops
• CATIA V4/V5 application scenarios
• Technical white papers
• Implementation and methodology guidelines
• System sizing and configuration guidelines
• Services in CATIA V4/V5 environments

For additional information on the CIPO visit http://www-5.ibm.com/de/caeserv/cicoc/cicoc.htm.

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Samba 2.2.0 - Powering the Next Generation of Network Attached Storage

The Samba Team is proud to announce a new major release of Samba, version 2.2.0. This release includes significant feature enhancements for Samba, and sets the standard for UNIX® and Microsoft Windows integration.

Enhancements include:

• Integration of server terminated leases (Windows "oplocks") with UNIX NFS sharing (Linux 2.4 kernel and IRIX only)
• Complete data and locking integrity when sharing files between UNIX and Windows
• Ability to act as an authentication source for Windows 2000® and Windows NT® clients, allowing savings on the purchase of Microsoft® Client Access Licenses
• Full support for the automatic downloading of Windows 2000 and Windows NT printer drivers, providing the first full implementation of the Windows NT point-and-print functionality independent of Microsoft code
• Unification of Windows 2000 and Windows NT Access control lists (ACLs) with UNIX Access control lists. Allows Windows clients to directly manipulate UNIX Access control entries as though they were Windows ACLs.
• Single sign-on integration using the winbind server (available separately). Allow UNIX servers to use Windows 2000 and Windows NT Domain controllers as a user and group account server. Manage all user and group accounts from a single source.
• Microsoft Distributed File System® (DFS) support. Samba 2.2.0 can act as a DFS server in a Microsoft network.
• Share level security setting. Allows security on Samba shares to be set by Microsoft client tools.
• Many other feature enhancements and bug fixes

About Samba
Samba is an Open Source/Free Software implementation of the Microsoft CIFS/SMB protocols for UNIX systems. In development for ten years, Samba is considered to be the reference implementation of the CIFS/SMB protocol for UNIX systems. Samba test tools are used by all the CIFS/SMB vendors to test and fix their protocol implementations. Samba is currently used in Network attached storage (NAS) and other products from the following vendors: (Note: this does not imply endorsement by these vendors, please contact the vendor marketing departments separately for comments).

IBM, SGI (Samba for IRIX), Sun Microsystems (Cobalt Qube), Hewlett Packard (CIFS/9000), VERITAS, VA Linux Systems, REALM Information Technologies, Network Concierge, Procom and many others.

In addition, Samba is shipped as a standard part of Linux offerings from Linux vendors such as Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Mandrake, TurboLinux and others. Samba is being used worldwide to solve the problem of integrating heterogeneous networks by corporations such as Agilent Technologies, CISCO Systems, and many others in addition to educational establishments and individuals.

Best of all, Samba is an Open Source/Free software project, available under the GNU GPL license meaning that source code for Samba is freely available for anyone to modify and customize.

Code from the Samba Team and individuals around the world has been integrated and tested to create Samba. In addition the following corporations have made significant donations of code, effort, testing facilities and support to make this release possible:

• Linuxcare (now TurboLinux)
• VA Linux Systems
• Caldera
• SGI
• Hewlett Packard
• VERITAS
• IBM

This new release may be downloaded from our Web site at: http://www.samba.org

For press inquiries about this release please contact either Jeremy Allison (jra@samba.org), Andrew Tridgell (tridge@samba.org) or John Terpstra (jht@samba.org).

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