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Product: PowerHub 6000 - intelligent switching hub (from $5,950 - modules priced separately)
Company: Alantec (San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (800) ALANTEC, (408) 955-9000
Fax: (408) 955-9500
E-mail: powerhub@alantec.com
URL: http://www.alantec.com
Description: The PowerHub 6000 intelligent switching hub will support up to 60 Ethernet ports and provide interface media flexibility for six ports. Designed to add flexibility to network managers, this product also offers various uplink support, multi-protocol routing, full-featured bridging, and multilayer VLANs.

Product: Sphinx Enclosures - server rackmount chassis
Company: Artecon (Carlsbad, CA)
Telephone: (800) USA-ARTE, (619) 931-5500
Fax: (619) 931-5527
E-mail: sales@artecon.com
URL: http://www.artecon.com
Description: Artecon's Sphinx enclosures, which allow SPARCstations to be mounted in a standard 19" rack, have received CE (Communaut European) certification. CE is the result of the harmonization of technical standards for a variety of products by the member nations in the European community. The Sphinx' design features include mounting brackets directly riveted to locking slide rails allowing the Sphinx to be easily installed, forced air fans, tuck-away side mounted lug handles for easy transportation, and locking front fascia for security.

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Product: Aide~de~Camp/Pro - software configuration management
Company: True Software, Inc.
Telephone: (508) 369-7398
Fax: (508) 369-8272
E-mail: info@truesoft.com
URL: www.truesoft.com
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2, most Unix, VMS, DOS
Description: True Software's Aide~de~Camp/Pro (ADC/PRO) provides a complete departmental and enterprise-wide Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution. ADC/Pro provides the development manager, the project manager, and individual developers with fully integrated SCM solutions. ADC/Pro's "Process Manager" and "Scriptor" components combine several technologies that allow users to tailor an SCM solution to fit their own organization's development process, while providing versioning and build-support management in an open platform environment.

Product: ETHERPAGE 2.4 - alphanumeric paging software (From $595 to $2195)
Company: Personal Productivity Tools, Inc (Los Altos Hills, CA)
Telephone: (415) 917-7000
Fax: (415) 917-7010
E-mail: sales@ppt.COM
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2, HP-UX, AIX
Description: Enterprise-wide alphanumeric paging capability for Unix workstation networks. Designed to insure that messages are delivered efficiently and without fail. Will work with most Hayes compatible modems, and utilizes industry standard protocols used by virtually all paging services. Features include:

Product: Internet Scanner 3.2 - finds network security holes
Company: network security holes (Atlanta, GA)
Telephone: (404) 252-7270
Fax: (404) 252-2427
E-mail: iss@iss.net
URL: http://www.iss.net
Platforms: HP-UX, AIX, Solaris 1, Solaris 2
Description: A comprehensive Internet attack simulator which learns an organization's network and probes each network device for security holes. Supposedly, the latest release will enable organizations to test for more than 130 security vulnerabilities and tests for vulnerabilities such as the Microsoft File Sharing bug.

Product: Photon C++ - compiler
Company: Kuck and Associates, Inc. (Champaign, Illinois)
Telephone: (217) 356-2288
Fax: (217) 356-5199
E-mail: kai@kai.com
URL: http://www.kai.com
Platforms: SPARC-based Solaris 2 Systems, most other flavors of Unix
Description: Photon C++ claims to allow users to write true object-oriented C++ code, including kernels, and obtain the performance of C code. (See Web site for benchmark results.) Features include platform independent optimization techniques which benefit users of any hardware platform or compiler, near draft standard syntax, and cfront compatibility.

Product: PowerBuilder Extension to Segue's QA Partner - automated software testing
Company: Segue Software, Inc. (Newton Centre, Mass.)
Telephone: (617) 796-1000, (800) 287-1329
Fax: (617) 796-1610
E-mail: info@segue.com
URL: http://www.segue.com
Platforms: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Unix
Description: Segue Software's PowerBuilder Extension to Segue's QA Partner provides testing capabilities beyond those available through Powersoft's test applications programming interface (TAPI). QA Partner's user interface permits full point-and-click creation of PowerBuilder test scripts.

Product: Pro/ENGINEER Release 16.0 - mechanical design automation software
Company: Parametric Technology Corporation (Waltham, MA)
Telephone: (617) 398-5000
URL: http://www.ptc.com
Platforms: Unix
Description: A family of software products that provides customers with control over the the form, fit, and function of mechanical products they are developing. Featuring more than 500 customer-driven enhancements and five new application modules, the new release incorporates a greater level of integration between Pro/ENGINEER and PTC's industrial design and design optimization software products. This should enable the user to directly access Pro/MECHANICA structural functionality from within the Pro/ENGINEER environment.

Product: Synchronize 2.0 - real-time enterprise collaboration ($100 per user)
Company: CrossWind Technologies, Inc. (Santa Cruz. CA)
Telephone: (408) 335-4988
Fax: (408) 469-1750
E-mail: info@crosswind.com
URL: http://www.xwind.com
Platforms: Unix, X Window, Mac, Windows, ASCII
Description: Synchronize incorporates the coordination features designed for enterprise and personal productivity, including the ability to schedule meetings, distribute agendas and memos, share notes, assign and track tasks, and issue reminders. Synchronize offers daily, weekly, and monthly calendar views of personal and groups schedules, shared notes, and automatically updated task lists. Synchronize 2.0's multi-threading architecture is capable of real-time scheduling and communicates directly via TCP/IP to avoid the latency associated with e-mail-based scheduling, file-based access methods, or slower transports.

Product: WebMaker 2.1 - FrameMaker-to-HTML ($99)
Company: Harlequin, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)
Telephone: (617) 374 2400
Fax: (617) 252 6505
E-mail: web@harlequin.com
URL: http://www.harlequin.com
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2, IRIX, AIX, HP-UX, Windows, Macintosh
Description: This multi-platform software system converts documents written in FrameMaker 5.0 and 4.0 into HTML. WebMaker offers customizable conversion of text, graphics, tables, and equations. The software also automatically creates hyperlinks throughout converted Web pages, allowing Web site visitors to navigate through linked tables of contents, main and section menus, footnotes, cross references, and indices.

Product: WebWorks Publisher 2.1 - FrameMaker add-on automates HTML conversion (Unix ($1,295), Windows ($895), Macintosh ($895))
Company: Quadralay Corporation (Austin, Texas)
Telephone: (512) 305-0240
Fax: (512) 305-0248
E-mail: info@quadralay.com
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2, IRIX, AIX, HP-UX, Windows, Macintosh
Description: WebWorks Publisher 2.1 is used with the FrameMaker publishing package to help technical publishers automate the task of publishing professional quality documents on the World Wide Web. WebWorks also allows companies to electronically distribute voluminous information over enterprise networks. WebWorks Publisher translates FrameMaker text and graphic formats into HTML, GIF and JPEG files. It supports Word, WordPerfect, Interleaf and other popular file formats through FrameMaker file import.

Product: eXodus 6.0 - XServer for the Macintosh
Company: White Pine Software, Inc. (Nashua, NH)
Telephone: (800) 241-PINE, (603) 886-9050
Fax: (603) 886-9051
E-mail: info@wpine.com
URL: http://www.wpine.com
Platforms: Macintosh
Description: A X server product for all Macintosh, Power Macintosh, and other MacOS-compatible computers. It implements the X11R6 standard, and includes everything you need to access X Window applications on Unix, VMS, and other hosts. eXodus is OpenTransport native and also supports MacTCP, DECnet, and high-speed serial connections.

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