Blueridge Ports Industrial-Strength Document Management Server to Windows NT®

FLINT HILL, Va. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - February 12, 1996 - Blueridge Technologies, "The Internet Document Management Company ," announced that the award-winning OPTIX® Document Management System now supports servers based on Windows NT, the popular multi-user operating system from Microsoft.

The NT version of OPTIX complements the line-up of high-performance UNIX servers already supported by OPTIX, including Sun SPARC, RS/6000 from IBM, and DEC Alpha.

The addition of the NT server platform makes OPTIX one of the most scalable solutions in the document management industry. With a full line of NT and UNIX servers, OPTIX can now provide a cost-effective solution for everything from a workgroup system, running NT on an entry-level Pentium-based server, to an enterprise-wide application running on top-of-the-line UNIX servers with symmetric multiple processors (SMP) and mainframe performance.

By porting to NT, Blueridge continues it's policy of supporting off-the-shelf, industry-standard platforms, so that our clients can implement document management systems on technology that they already own and support.

Founded in 1988, Blueridge Technologies is one of the industry's oldest and most respected providers of electronic document management systems (EDMS). Long the leading industrial-strength document imaging and workflow system for Apple Macintosh computers, in 1994 OPTIX became the first electronic document management system to offer workflow, document imaging, document control, COLD (Computer Output to Laser Disk), and natural language text retrieval for both Windows and Macintosh workstations. Via the new OPTIX WEB interface, OPTIX also supports popular Web browsers, including Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer from Microsoft, Mosaic, and all the client platforms these products support, including Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations. An online demo of OPTIX WEB is available at http://www.optixweb.com. Blueridge Technologies is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Metters Industries.

OPTIX systems begin in the range of $40,000 and include server software, client software for both Macintosh and Windows, installation, training, and support.