Sun Microsystems Inc is to partner with Denver, Coloado-based Quark Inc on future server-based products for the publishing industry, the two announced at the Seybold trade show in San Francisco yesterday. Quark, which began talking earlier this year about its planned move beyond desktop products towards digital asset management for large systems (CI No 3,370), says it will combine the marketing efforts for its future Quark Digital Media System, QuarkDMS and future Unix versions of the existing QPS Quark Publishing System software with Sun. The new software will run on Sun hardware and the Solaris operating system. Quark launched version 2.0 of the QPS cross platform workgroup management system back in March, supporting Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows hardware. The Sun deal will add Unix to the list of supported platforms. QuarkDMS, which manages pictures, text files, QuarkXPress documents, movies, sounds, and other files on the network, is centralized around the server and accessed via LAN or the web. The first version is due to be shipped in the fourth quarter.
