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Synopsis
IBM has introduced the ultimate in Web design machines, a hardware and software solution that provides the tools a Web designer needs to create stunning and sophisticated Websites. The solution includes some of the best in industry standard software for Website design and management on an award-winning IBM IntelliStation M PRO workstation for an estimated reseller price of $4850*. The solution is also available with an optional 21" Professional Series monitor and an IBM flatbed color scanner for an estimated reseller price of $6480*. This IBM Web design solution is available at www.ibm.com/e-business/webtools or through authorized IBM resellers immediately.
Significance
The ultimate in Web design machines offers the Web designer a comprehensive tool from IBM featuring the award winning IntelliStation platform and the newest versions of industry leading Web design software at a significant savings. The IntelliStation M Pro has set a standard for performance, achieving a record breaking BAPCo SYSmark score of 4071, beating the nearest competitor, the Hewlett Packard Kayak XU, by 19.7%***.
Highlights/Features
The main components of the ultimate Web design machine are an IntelliStation M Pro and a comprehensive software package which consists of graphics and animation design tools and Website design and management tools from the industry leaders. Software includes Adobe's Photoshop 5.0**, Premiere 5.0**, Illustrator 7.0** and their newest product, ImageReady 1.0**. Macromedia Flash 3**, the standard in Web Multimedia, and NetObjects Fusion 3.0** , the award-winning site building and management tool, and the complimentary suite of products and components, Fusion ProPack 1.0 **.
Comments
"The ultimate Web design machine is the newest IBM tool for e-business and is targeted at helping Web designers create next generation Web sites. We're combining the hottest design software in the industry with state of the art hardware technologies to help designers enable e-business solutions."
- Nancy Faigen, Vice President, IBM e-Business Solutions.
“The Web is an inherently visual medium, and the demand for eye-catching Web sites is exploding. Adobe’s award winning graphics and Web software solutions, combined with IBM’s newest workstation, the IntelliStation M Pro, will help Web designers create the type of stunning Web sites that companies need to attract customers and ultimately build their businesses.”
- Bruce Chizen, General Manager, Adobe Graphics Products Division.
* Estimated Reseller Price. Resellers set their own prices, so actual price may vary.
** Indicates trademark or registered trademark of respective companies.
***BAPCo’s SYSmark is an industry standard tool for measuring the overall performance of
computers running business, technical and graphics-intensive applications in a Windows NT
environment. Results from 5/19/98 test. Configuration: dual Pentium II 400MHz, 128MB
SDRAM, dual 9.1GB 10,000rpm Wide Ultra SCSI disk drives in RAID array, Matrox
Millennium II graphics accelerator with 8MB WRAM.
IBM Ultimate Web Design Machine
Technology Features:
Hardware:
IBM IntelliStation M Pro, model 6889-90U
Pentium II 400 MHz
256 MB RAM
9.1 GB SCSI Hard Disk
Matrox Millenium II
IBM 21" Professional Series Monitor
IBM Flatbed Color Scanner
Software:
Windows NT 4.0
Adobe Photoshop 5.0
- The world's best selling professional image-editing software. Primary tool for digital image enhancement, photo retouching and image compositing
Adobe Premiere 5.0
Video and audio editing application, a must-have for the multimedia professional
Adobe Illustrator 7.0
Illustration software to create and export brilliant Web-ready image files
Adobe ImageReady 1.0
Utilities to prepare graphics for use on the Web
Macromedia Flash 3
The leading drawing and animation tool to create multimedia effects on Web pages
NetObjects Fusion 3.0
The powerful visual Web site creation, design and management tool
NetObjects Propack 1.0
Complements Fusion 3.0 with a suite of developer tools.
Provides dynamic database publishing, client and server-side scripting, easy-to-use java applets and programming
Dynamic Database Connectivity
Allaire Fusion2Fusion Connector for Cold Fusion
Lotus Domino and NetObjects Fusion Connector
NetObjects Fusion Connector to Microsoft Active Server Pages
NetObjects Fusion Connector to Netscape Live Wire
Scripting
NetObjects ScriptBuilder 1.0
Java Applets & Programming
LotusBeanMachine for Java
IBM VisualAge for Java Professional
Lotus Smartsuite License*
AntiVirus for Windows NT
ViaVoice Gold
- IBM's powerful continuous speech recognition software
*Lotus Smart Suite License - diskette copies and hard copy publications charged separately.
IBM is a registered trademark of the International Business Machines Corporation. IntelliStation and ViaVoice Gold are trademarks of IBM. All other company names or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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