Xinet
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Xinet is a developer of the digital asset management
system, Xinet WebNative Suite. Headquartered in Berkeley, California and with an office in Munich, Germany, Xinet was incorporated in 1991 after five years as a division of MT Xinu
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operating systems. AT&T first distributed their Unix source-code to university researchers at Carnegie Melon and U.C. Berkeley. U.C. Berkeley researchers popularized their own version of Unix, which became known as “Berkeley Unix.” In 1979, when AT&T announced its intention to commercialize Unix, it prompted the researchers at U.C. Berkeley to form a cooperative set called MT Xinu which set out to package Berkeley Unix as a commercial operating system and to handle support for it among its users. In 1983, MT Xinu was among the first companies to release a commercial version of Unix called BSD Unix 4.2.
Throughout 1987–1989, MT Xinu released the first Unix-to-Mac connectivity software and the first AppleTalk
print spoolers (K-spool). Xinet AppleTalk server file-sharing products, K-AShare, and K-FS joined K-Spool in 1990. Over time, MT Xinu had become more and more of a consulting company, since all the hardware vendors had begun to produce and promote their own versions of Unix. Xinet first emerged as the division of MT Xinu, which was responsible for developing and supporting a server for Unix that would connect with Mac clients. In 1989, some of MT Xinu’s employees, including current Xinet CEO, Scott Seebass, decided to form a separate company.
Incorporated in 1991, Xinet retained all of MT Xinu’s key software engineers as well as all the source-code rights to continue making the “K-products.” Xinet determined that its expertise in Unix/Mac connectivity would make a big difference in improving prepress
performance, so in 1995, Xinet released FullPress, the foundation for WebNative Suite.
The company distributes WebNative Suite worldwide through a network of resellers, including the US, France, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the UK, Australia, Japan, and Brazil. Xinet has built a customer base of the top advertising agencies, retailers, printers, publishers, and corporations worldwide.
Digital asset management
Digital asset management consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets...
system, Xinet WebNative Suite. Headquartered in Berkeley, California and with an office in Munich, Germany, Xinet was incorporated in 1991 after five years as a division of MT Xinu
MtXinu
mt Xinu was a software company founded in 1983 that produced two operating systems. Its slogan "We know Unix™ backwards and forwards" was an allusion to the company's name and abilities....
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History
A key part of Xinet history has been the company’s expertise in UnixUnix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
operating systems. AT&T first distributed their Unix source-code to university researchers at Carnegie Melon and U.C. Berkeley. U.C. Berkeley researchers popularized their own version of Unix, which became known as “Berkeley Unix.” In 1979, when AT&T announced its intention to commercialize Unix, it prompted the researchers at U.C. Berkeley to form a cooperative set called MT Xinu which set out to package Berkeley Unix as a commercial operating system and to handle support for it among its users. In 1983, MT Xinu was among the first companies to release a commercial version of Unix called BSD Unix 4.2.
Throughout 1987–1989, MT Xinu released the first Unix-to-Mac connectivity software and the first AppleTalk
AppleTalk
AppleTalk is a proprietary suite of protocols developed by Apple Inc. for networking computers. It was included in the original Macintosh released in 1984, but is now unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10.6 in 2009 in favor of TCP/IP networking...
print spoolers (K-spool). Xinet AppleTalk server file-sharing products, K-AShare, and K-FS joined K-Spool in 1990. Over time, MT Xinu had become more and more of a consulting company, since all the hardware vendors had begun to produce and promote their own versions of Unix. Xinet first emerged as the division of MT Xinu, which was responsible for developing and supporting a server for Unix that would connect with Mac clients. In 1989, some of MT Xinu’s employees, including current Xinet CEO, Scott Seebass, decided to form a separate company.
Incorporated in 1991, Xinet retained all of MT Xinu’s key software engineers as well as all the source-code rights to continue making the “K-products.” Xinet determined that its expertise in Unix/Mac connectivity would make a big difference in improving prepress
Prepress
Prepress is the term used in the printing and publishing industries for the processes and procedures that occur between the creation of a print layout and the final printing...
performance, so in 1995, Xinet released FullPress, the foundation for WebNative Suite.
Product
Xinet WebNative Suite is a server-based digital asset management system that streamlines the collection, access, production, distribution, security and archiving of digital media for graphics and media professionals. WebNative Suite encompasses the following components:- FullPress—a file server and production engine
- WebNative—a server-based digital asset management system integrated with graphic production and networking infrastructure
- WebNative Venture—an enterprise-strength SQLSQLSQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
database with metadataMetadataThe term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
driven capabilities - WebNative Portal—a secure, multiple-server asset management system
The company distributes WebNative Suite worldwide through a network of resellers, including the US, France, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the UK, Australia, Japan, and Brazil. Xinet has built a customer base of the top advertising agencies, retailers, printers, publishers, and corporations worldwide.