New or updated products for Sun Unix computing

Table of Contents

Hardware

Software

Conferences

Service

Hardware

Product: Colorado 4 - 180 MHz, 512 Kb hyperSPARC upgrades
Company: ROSS Technology, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Telephone: (800) ROSS-YES, (512) 349-3108
Fax: (512) 349-3101
E-mail: info@ross.com
URL: http://www.ross.com
Platforms: SPARCstation 10/20, SPARCserver 630/670/690
Description: Product allows Sun Microsystems' and other SPARC-compliant workstations and servers to upgrade to 180 MHz, using single or twin hyperSPARC processors. Includes a tightly-coupled 512 Kb secondary cache. The CPUs are based on Fujitsu's 0.35-micron triple layer metal (TLM) CMOS process technology and multi-die packaging (MDP), and are available as single processor modules on standard MBus daughter cards (3.3" X 5.78" form factor). Upgrade customers may order single or twin-processor configurations. Delivers 200 SPECint92 and 219 SPECfp92 on a production compiler. In a twin-CPU configuration, it delivers SPECrate_int92 of 8893 and SPECrate_fp92 of 9470.

Product: DataFire PCI-bus Basic Rate Interface (BRI) ISDN adapters - ISDN connections to Internet and intranets ($495)
Company: Digi International Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)
Telephone: 800-344-4273, (612) 912-3444
E-mail: info@dgii.com
URL: http://www.dgii.com
Platforms: Solaris x86/Pentium, Sun Solstice, Windows NT
Description: PCI-bus Basic Rate Interface (BRI) ISDN adapters and Sun Solstice drivers for Solaris x86/Pentium platforms. Provides Solaris users with high-speed ISDN connections to Internet and intranet services. Sun Microsystems offers a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) stack for use with the drivers. The adapter is available with an S/T interface for international use, or with a U interface for U.S. use. Supports one BRI ISDN connection (2B+D). Sun Solstice and Windows NT drivers are included.

Product: GigaRAID - RAID and non-RAID storage systems
Company: ANDATACO (San Diego, CA)
Telephone: (800) 334-9191
Fax: (619) 453-9851
E-mail: info@andataco.com
URL: http://www.andataco.com
Description: Family of intelligent RAID and non-RAID storage systems features Enterprise Storage Packaging (ESP), minimizing unplanned system downtime. ESP is an advanced enclosure technology. An on-board microprocessor monitors a system's weakest components: its fans, power supplies and drives. When an abnormality is detected, ESP notifies system administrators of the impending problem via visual and audible alarms. With the addition of Web Storage Manager software, administrators also receive alert notification through their alphanumeric pager and e-mail. Once warned of a potential failure, administrators are able to fix an ailing component before it causes system downtime or data loss. The product line supports all standard disk (2, 4 and 9 GB) and tape (4 mm, 8 mm and DLT) drives. Drives are housed in Removable Storage Elements (RSEs) which can be placed in single, three or eight bay enclosures. The eight bay units can also be daisy-chained in a data center cabinet for up to 1 TB of storage capacity. Includes hot-swappable drives, power supplies and fans, a cableless chassis for increased SCSI integrity, the ability to support Ultra-SCSI data transfer rates and the capability to cool 10,000 RPM disk drives.

Product: MGX Plus - Sbus Graphics Controller
Company: Southland Media Systems, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Telephone: (408) 747-1020
Fax: (408) 747-1510
E-mail: info@slmedia.com
URL: http://www.slmedia.com/slmedia
Platforms: SPARCstation
Description: Video-enabled SBus media graphics accelerator provides 8-/24-bit color graphics and full screen video playback at 30 frames per second on SPARC-based workstations. Includes 4 Mb of display frame buffer memory. In 24-bit operation, it dynamically scales and displays full-motion video at up to full-screen resolution (e.g. 1152 x 900) -- even in a SPARCstation 5 class machine. Multiple 24-bit graphics subsystems can be installed in a single desktop machine. Uses an integrated 128-bit graphics rendering engine; includes dedicated bi-linear filtering; a full horizontal line buffer; independent color correction controls for video and graphics with multiple simultaneous video windows; a high speed 64-bit on-board frame buffer memory transferring frame data in excess of 500 Mb/sec; and an integrated video DAC and pixel clock generator, packaged to fit in a single SBus card slot. Automatic monitor sensing and composite sync generation logic supports all common SPARCstation monitor refresh frequencies with Open Boot configuration. Software acceleration is included for all visual interfaces normally available for Solaris 2, including X11, XGL, and XIL interfaces. Hardware "transparency" and special driver software enhancements allow existing 8- and 24-bit applications to take full advantage of 24-bit color resolutions without recompiling or modifying applications.

Product: PacketTel-1300 - H.323 voice/fax gateway ($500 per channel)
Company: ViaDSP, Inc. (Concord, MA)
Telephone: (508) 369-0048
Fax: (508) 369-4868
E-mail: info@viadsp.com
URL: http://www.viadsp.com
Platforms: ISA slot, Windows NT
Description: High density computer telephony board and software used to build IP voice/fax gateway servers for the Internet/intranets. System integrators, VARs and OEMs can build H.323 gateway servers providing multiple T-spans of PSTN-to-IP connectivity. Up to 24 channels of voice/fax processing in a single ISA slot. Integrates through a Windows NT API, providing H.323/G.723 and G.729 Annex A voice compression and fax transparency through any IP network. On board MVIP and SCSA busses allow connection to virtually any CT vendor's T1 interface card.

Product: Sun-to-PC Video Card - Use Sun Monitor on PC
Company: Axiom International (Clearwater, FL)
Telephone: (813) 442-7774, x6535
Fax: (813) 442-8344
E-mail: info@axiomint.com
URL: http://www.axiomint.com/pro-stp.htm
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 3.11, Windows NT, DOS
Description: Monitors used with Sun workstations do not work with standard PC video cards, designed for multisync monitors that can handle signals at different frequencies. The monitors sold with Sun workstations, though of very high quality, do not have this capability. This card lets any PC with a PCI slot drive almost any monitor that works with a Sun workstation. A PC with the card boots normally, showing all the usual diagnostics. The cards drive Sun monitors to a resolution of 1152 x 864. The 2-megabyte version of the card displays 65,536 colors. The 4-megabyte version displays 16,777,216 colors.

Software

Product: Accrue Insight - Web site performance analysis ($15,000)
Company: Accrue Software, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 969-9031
E-mail: info@accrue.com
URL: http://www.accrue.com
Description: Delivers Web site performance information and analysis through Java applets. Webmasters, marketers and advertisers can see how critical factors impact site performance, so they can modify site offerings, improve site performance and increase site return on investment. System scales to the most heavily-visited Web sites. Provides analysis and auditing information (hits, bytes served, browser type and user domain breakdowns). Integrates information about users' content choices (pages viewed, links activated, downloads requested and routes taken) with network performance data (download time and server-response time, for example), giving Web site managers a picture of user experience at a site. With this information, site managers can make changes to improve performance and get feedback on the impact of those changes. Provides information about user experience at a site (time required for delivery of a page, pages stopped in transit, and effective line speeds), enabling analysis of individual or overall behavior. Web site data can be viewed in summary or drilled down into by areas. Information, both live and historic, is delivered to decision makers' desktops.

Product: Anyware Office - Java word processing, spreadsheet, business graphics, e-mail ($295/concurrent user)
Company: Applix, Inc. (Westboro, MA)
Telephone: (508) 870-0300, (800) 8-APPLIX
E-mail: info@applix.com
URL: http://www.applix.com
Platforms: Webtops, NCs, Windows 95, NT, Unix PCs and servers
Description: Office suite for the Java desktop, consisting of word processing, spreadsheet, business graphics and e-mail in compound documents. Supports thin client, NC and Webtop computing. Has a small client footprint and smart network utilization. Suite of applications includes a WYSIWYG word processor, a 3-D GUI spreadsheet, business graphics and an e-mail client. All of the components support continuous linking and embedding; customizable user interfaces; an integrated macro language for task automation; printing to any postscript or PCL printer; document delivery via fax or e-mail; and filters for over 50 word processing, spreadsheet and graphic file types. The desktop can access OLAP, relational and real-time data, enabling users to make live connections to mission-critical data in real-time from their Webtop or NC over the Internet or intranet.

Product: Bazaar Analyzer Pro v1.0 - Java-Based Website Monitor ($599)
Company: Aquas, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Telephone: (408) 737-7122
E-mail: info@aquas.com
URL: http://www.aquas.com
Platforms: Solaris, BSD, Linux, Windows NT, HP-UX, SGI, AIX, Macintosh
Description: A Web monitoring and analysis tool developed in Java; monitors the productivity of commercial Web sites. Designed for companies whose Website is hosted by a third party Internet Service Provider (ISP), or companies with their own Web site and intranet installations. Based on Java, it is platform independent and works with any Java-enabled browser. Single point installation at the server simplifies deployment and maintenance. Accommodates many users at one time. Interactive, real-time operation profiles user information as it happens. It tracks a large number of parameters including number and duration of hits, specific pages accessed, user demographics, disk usage, bandwidth, and real-time tracking of customers online.

Product: Coda - Java Web site builder ($495)
Company: RandomNoise Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Telephone: (415) 437-0321
E-mail: info@randomnoise.com
URL: http://www.randomnoise.com
Platforms: Windows 95/NT, Macintosh OS, Solaris
Description: Java Web site builder designed to overcome the limitations of HTML. For Web designers, publishers, and developers building entire sites in Java. Combines the layout metaphor of desktop publishing applications with customizable Java controls. Includes support for graphics, sound, animation, rich text with anti-aliased fonts, multiple state buttons, forms, floating windows and other elements that can be positioned, staged, and reused. Its features include: precision layout and control of objects, a component architecture that is extensible, an object-oriented approach to Web page design, support for object interactivity and communication, and WYSIWYG output on any Java-compatible Web browser.

Product: Corel Office for Java - word processor, spreadsheet, charting, personal information
Company: Corel Corporation (Ottawa, Ontario)
Telephone: (613) 728-0826
E-mail: info@corel.com
URL: http://www.corel.com
Platforms: Java
Description:

Product: Corel WordPerfect 7 - word processing software ($495)
Company: Corel Corporation (Ottawa, Ontario)
Telephone: (613) 728-0826
E-mail: info@corel.com
URL: http://www.corel.com/products/wordperfect
Platforms: HP-UX 10.01 9000 700/800, AIX 4.1.4, SCO Unix OpenServer 5
Description: This word processing software package for the Unix platform offers drawing and charting capabilities, text editing, spreadsheet functionality and direct import of database information. Available for both Character Terminals and X Window systems. File compatible with DOS and Windows counterparts. New features: Netscape NavigatorJ 2.0, 130 fonts, 5,400 quickart images and 4,500 clipart images, 200 photos, 187 textures, and 28 ExpressDocs.

Product: DSS Web 4.1 - Web database query and reporting tool
Company: MicroStrategy, Inc. (Vienna, VA)
Telephone: (800) 927-1868
E-mail: info@strategy.com
URL: http://www.strategy.com
Platforms: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, Unix
Description: Provides Web-based warehouse users with ad hoc analysis capabilities. AutoPrompt features, self-diagnostics, and on-the-fly international language support. A Java applet provides a wizard interface. Can be deployed to thousands of users who need answers to complex business questions, yet have little or no computer experience. The AutoPrompt interface guides users through each stage of an analysis. With no training, novices can create reports that answer sophisticated business questions. For example, a store manager could, on-the-fly, define a question like "show me the stores in California, except for Orange County, which had sales over $100,000 but less than $500,000 on weekends (excluding holidays) for discounted items only, and compare that to last year," without requiring any IT assistance or support. Also provides DBAs with self-diagnostics and improved error messaging. Identifies important issues, such as connectivity misconfigurations or the database connection going down. Compatible with a variety of World Wide Web browsers and servers including Netscape, Microsoft, Spyglass, and Oracle.

Product: DataCruncher 1.2 - corporate data mining tool
Company: DataMind Corporation (Redwood City, CA)
Telephone: (888) DATAMIND, (415) 364-5580
Fax: (415) 364-5591
E-mail: info@datamindcorp.com
URL: http://www.datamindcorp.com
Platforms: HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, Windows NT
Description: New version supports symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems and performs data mining in a "client/server shared discovery environment." Product family includes server software and a client product. Addresses a range of corporate data mining requirements for IT organizations. Runs on large, symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems and supports large production data warehouse environments already installed on Oracle, Informix and Sybase RDBMSs. Its client/server shared discovery environment lets business professionals share data mining models on a server network, facilitating cooperative mining across an enterprise. Features include inherent scalability and complex modeling.

Product: FireWatch - network security monitoring system
Company: Bellcore (Morristown, NJ)
Telephone: (800) 521-CORE, (908) 699-2241
E-mail: info@bellcore.com
URL: http://www.bellcore.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.4 and Sun OS 4.1.3
Description: This is a commercial version of a network security monitoring system. It is a software solution that assists system and firewall administrators in the verification of firewall configurations and in the analysis of firewall traffic. Designed to work with network security software to provide secure enterprise connectivity to businesses and organizations worldwide. Extracts information on network traffic and enables network administrators to send this information to a database or create a detailed, formatted report. Firewall administrators can analyze and report on network traffic, including potential hacker activity, network problems, and inappropriate access to external web sites by corporate users. Firewalls are an effective and efficient way to control external access into, and internal access out of corporate networks. Commercial enterprises connected to the Internet rely on firewall technology to ensure that proprietary network access is secure.

Product: JIT compiler for Java - JIT Java Compiler
Company: SunSoft, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (800) 786-7638
E-mail: info@sunsoft.com
URL: http://www.sunsoft.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.6
Description: An early beta version of a JIT compiler for Java on Solaris is available on SunSoft's Web site. The general release will be embedded in the next release of Java Workshop, and in Solaris 2.6, the next version of the Solaris operating system. Solaris 2.6 also will have a Java VM embedded in it.

Product: Java Site Map - Web site browser
Company: iRave interactive, LLC
Telephone: (703) 758-0964
Fax: (703) 758-0928
E-mail: info@irave-interactive.com
URL: http://www.irave-interactive.com
Platforms: Java
Description: New Java technology helps users locate and access information on a Web site. Unlike blind browsing and site search engines that can lead to unrelated and misleading topics, it lets users browse through a GUI representation of a Web site without actually opening a single HTML document. Once a topic is selected, the product then takes the user to the HTML document containing the information, reducing time to information recovery. Included is a Java based server application that accommodates for changes made to the Web site being mapped, and also a Java based GUI tool that helps Webmasters customize content displayed in the map applet. Provides seamless integration onto any platform using standard HTML tags.

Product: JavaBeans BDK - development toolkit (free beta d/l)
Company: SunSoft, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
E-mail: java-beans@java.sun.com
URL: http://java.sun.com/bean, http://splash.javasoft.com/beans/index
Description:

Product: Jprinter - Java Printer Control Language
Company: Bristol Technology Inc. (Ridgefield, CT)
Telephone: (203) 438-6969
E-mail: info@bristol.com
URL: http://www.bristol.com
Platforms: NCs, Windows PCs, Unix, OpenVMS, S390
Description: A WYSIWYG PostScript and HP Printer Control Language (PCL) network printing system for Java. Lets Java VM (virtual machine) developers and OEMs enable sophisticated PostScript and PCL printing from any Java application. A standard, robust, cross-platform printing solution for a variety of network computing systems. Uses an architecture that resembles the familiar printing model found on PCs, while conforming to Java's thin-client network-computing paradigm. Extends the current Java Abstract Windows Toolkit (AWT 1.1) graphics context mechanism with high performance printing languages including color PostScript, color PCL, and HPGL-2 RTL (large format color plotter language). Provides a consistent user interface and printing paradigm across all platforms. Supports over 200 of the most common printer models.

Product: Livelink Intranet Suite 7 - intranet application suite ($62,500)
Company: Open Text Corporation (Waterloo, Ontario, CAN)
Telephone: (800) 507- 5777
E-mail: info@opentext.com
URL: http://www.opentext.com/livelink
Platforms: Sun/Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT
Description: Intranet application suite allows companies to run their businesses by leveraging their corporate intranets to manage distributed work processes and information. Provides search, document management, workflow and project collaboration engines, accessed through the Netscape Navigator browser. Designed for mission-critical business activities requiring Web-based, scalable document and project management applications primarily in the telecommunications, financial services, health care and manufacturing (energy, bio-technology and high technology) industries. These applications include managing human resources, safety procedures, business contracts, technical documentation, product development, customer service operations, quality control, shop floor operations, regulatory standards compliance, standard operating procedures, ISO 9000 compliance and consulting firm consulting methodologies. New features include: One Click Project Page Creation, Bulletin Boards, E-mail Notification, Livelink Library, Enhanced Audit trails, Compound Document Management, and Version Information and Management.

Product: MAT<LIB> 2.01 - C++ Matrix Class Library (Free evaluation D/L)
Company: MathTools Ltd. (Horsham, PA)
Telephone: (888) MATHTOOLS, (215) 957-1719
E-mail: sales@mathtools.com
URL: http://www.mathtools.com
Platforms: Unix, Linux
Description: A C++ Matrix Class Library, designed for development of scientific high-level C++ code. The library includes complex math, binary and unary operators, powerful indexing capabilites, signal processing, file I/O, linear algebra, string operations and graphics. Over 300 mathematical functions are included. Supports matrices of doubles, floats, ints and chars mixed in the program. Images can be stored in matrices of chars, using 1/8 memory storage. In many applications, where 8 digits of precision are sufficient, float-precision matrices can save half the memory usage. Memory allocation and de-allocation is managed automatically. 2D and 3D Graphics are supported in standalone applications using the freely available graphics package, Gnuplot.

Product: MagicWeb - development and deployment of n-tier, ITP applications ($1,000)
Company: Magic Software Enterprises (Irvine, CA)
Telephone: (714) 250-1718
Fax: (714) 250-7404
E-mail: info@magic-sw.com
URL: http://www.magic-sw.com
Platforms: Windows NT, 95, Sun Solaris
Description: An open development and deployment system that enables organizations to build complex, n-tier, Internet Transaction Processing (ITP) applications in a rules-based paradigm. Supports application state maintainability, scalability and partitioning of Internet applications across multiple servers. The application state can be maintained across multiple Web transactions, managing all database transactions and program variables throughout all user activity. Gives the "stateless" processing environment "state" with no processing overhead. Web content creators can dynamically customize HTML documents for specific users. Comprised of several facilities for the development of transactional Internet-based applications. The toolset includes: Web Connector; WebBroker; Web Application Server; Web State Management; and WebTemplates.

Product: OrbixWeb 2.0 - Java-based transaction services ($2,500)
Company: IONA Technologies (Cambridge, MA)
Telephone: (617) 679-0900, (800) orbix4u
E-mail: info@iona.com
URL: http://www.iona.com
Platforms: Windows NT, 95, OS/2, System 7.5, Unix, MVS and RTOSs such
Description: Java-based CORBA and IIOP implementation supports third party transaction services that are conformant with the Object Management Group's Object Transaction Services specification. This brings enterprise technology to new Internet-based applications by providing scaleable transactions services for Java applets and applications for the Internet and intranets. Includes native IIOP support. OTS technology is provided by Transarc Corporations' Encina product, which supports distributed Java mission-critical applications across the Internet. Product enables the development of Java-built CORBA-conformant clients and servers for companies requiring multi-tier IIOP-based solutions. It transforms Internet and intranet passive information servers into interactive application platforms. It is integrated with CORBA Naming services for building large-scale IIOP systems. It also provides a bi-directional CORBA-COM bridge. OTS functionality delivers enterprise-wide transactions for Java applets. It hides the complexity traditionally associated with building third party transaction services into distributed object solutions. The Object Management Group's CORBA OTS standard marries transactions with objects at the request broker level.

Product: Replix Java Fax Client - remote access fax messaging system
Company: SoftLinx, Inc. (Westford, MA)
Telephone: (508) 392-0001
Fax: (508) 392-9009
E-mail: info@softlinx.com
URL: http://www.softlinx.com
Platforms: Windows 95, NT, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX
Description: A scaleable wide-area, fax management system used by corporations to fax-enable business applications on corporate intranet networks and the Internet. It also provides Internet service providers with features for outbound and inbound faxing. Gives users universal and remote access to a fax messaging system from any platform that supports Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Product: SafePath - data path failover software
Company: Conley Corporation (New York, NY)
Telephone: (212) 682-0100
Fax: (212) 682-0071
E-mail: info@conley.com
URL: http://www.conley.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.x
Description: Enhances RAID subsystems by providing automatic error recovery for server-to-RAID data path failures. Supports standard adapters, clustered (up to 4) servers, dual-active data paths, and adds adaptive routing to a subsystem in order to monitor the condition of all data path components. In a cluster environment, multiple hosts can access the same RAID subsystem. With active-active data paths, the software provides a performance increase over traditional single bus configurations. Each host automatically senses status changes in data paths, including RAID controllers, cables, and host bus adapters. A failure in any of these areas results in an immediate re-routing of I/O requests, and a data path recovery with no impact on server applications. After a data path has been restored it allows for automatic failback.

Product: SurfWatch ProServer - Internet access and control ($1,495)
Company: Spyglass Inc. (Naperville, IL)
Telephone: (888) 6-SPYGLASS, (630) 245-6500
E-mail: info@spyglass.com
URL: http://www.spyglass.com
Platforms: Windows NT, Solaris
Description: An Internet proxy server with filtering software. Controls access to Internet and company intranets. Caching features also increase Internet performance. Used to restrict access to materials that are offensive, inappropriate or counterproductive in user environments. In addition Internet television applications, the product is used in a range of other applications. For example, Internet service providers can use the software to improve system performance and filter unwanted material on behalf of their subscribers. Employers can install it on their corporate Internet gateways to restrict employee access to inappropriate sites, either company-wide or by workgroup, as they boost their system performance. OEM partners can integrate either the complete proxy server plus filtering, or only the filtering capabilities. In addition, it offers a caching application programming interface (API), which enables OEMs to integrate their products and increase caching performance.

Product: Synplify 2.6b - Symbolic Finite State Machine (FSM) Compiler ($10,000)
Company: Synplicity, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 961-4962
Fax: (415) 961-4974
E-mail: info@synplicity.com
URL: http://www.synplicity.com
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows NT, Unix
Description: A Symbolic Finite State Machine (FSM) Compiler has been added to the product, making it a logic synthesis tool that provides automatic recognition and re-encoding of FSMs. This added functionality improves the efficiency of state machine designs and speeds development. This release also includes AMD's Mach and Lattice Semiconductors ispLSI and pLSI families of CPLD devices, bringing the total to 19 supported architectures. The Symbolic FSM Compiler function extracts state machines in symbolic form and re-encodes them for optimal performance and area implementation. The compiler also performs reachability analysis and eliminates unreachable states. This synthesis tool accepts industry-standard Verilog and VHDL descriptions and produces optimized implementations for programmable devices from vendors including Actel, Altera, AMD, Cypress, Lattice Semiconductor, Lucent Technologies, QuickLogic, and Xilinx. It also includes a built-in language-sensitive Editing Window that uses the fast synthesis engine to perform syntax and synthesis checks.

Product: UName*It Version 2.0 - intranet management product ($25,000)
Company: Enterprise Systems Management (Tustin, CA)
Telephone: (714) 505-7686, ext. 130
E-mail: info@esm.com
URL: http://www.esm.com
Platforms: Unix
Description: Manages the resources that comprise a corporate intranet. Ties together key resources across administrative domains, unifying them into a cooperative, shared information system. It provides a single point of change, ensuring that the complex infrastructure of servers, services, and other resources remains consistent and up-to-date. It features a central repository for resource definitions. At the core of this repository is a fully normalized data model that reflects the structure and function of the resources forming the basic infrastructure of the intranet. Models the various intranet resources - such as networks, services, and users - as independent entities, and also models the relationships between resources. Such relationships are supported and maintained, ensuring both the quality of the data and the integrity of the infrastructure. New in version 2.0 is the ability to extend the underlying schema through the same graphical user interface (GUI) used in normal daily operation. Schema extensibility enables users to include new fields, new classes, and even new error messages in the data model. As a result, users can customize the product to suit their own environments.

Product: ViewMax 2000 - systems integration and middleware product
Company: MODCOMP (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Telephone: (954) 974-1380
Fax: (954) 977-1900
E-mail: info@modcomp.com
URL: http://www.modcomp.com
Platforms: SPARCserver Web server, Solaris software
Description: Electronic commerce product allows companies to broaden their existing legacy systems' capabilities, expanding business information and transactions securely over the Internet and intranets. Allows companies that use proprietary or legacy type systems for business transactions to expand their capabilities without scrapping or reconfiguring their existing systems. Creates a secure, user-friendly interface that allows controlled access to these current systems. Eliminates the need to modify current IT systems by using Java scripting and Internet technology to emulate "dumb terminal" sessions. This solution rides on top of current systems. Users can access business information and make complete transactions on LAN or WAN-based intranets or on the Internet. Merges multimedia content with information retrieved from existing mainframe databases. Generates standard Web pages and user input forms -- enhancing the interface, the integration of current systems and the scope of their use. Designed for organizations wishing to automate their information retrieval and order-processing operations. Enables companies to improve customer service while streamlining the sales and ordering process. Customers (dealers, resellers, or end consumers) can place, confirm and track orders directly over an intranet or the Internet.

Product: Visual Cafe 1.0 - visual Java development tool ($199)
Company: Symantec Corp. (Cupertino, CA)
Telephone: (800) 441-7234, (541) 334-6054
Fax: (408) 252-4694
E-mail: javainfo@symantec.com
URL: http://www.symantec.com/vcafe/
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 or later
Description: A graphical development tool with dynamic update capability, provided by Java components that run in a Java virtual machine during design time. As an applet or application is created in the Form Designer, the source code window reflects all changes. Includes a library of frequently used objects. A developer can start with the provided objects, and then add customized ones later. In the development environment, the Tool Palette makes these components, and others from the component library, available. The Interaction Wizard graphically links objects and defines actions based on events. For example, the Wizard can specify that when users click a button, items in a corresponding list box will be altered. Features in Visual Cafe 1.0: Form Designer with design-time Java components, which allow simultaneous visual and source code development; Integrated debugging environment; Just-in-time compiler speeds execution; Fast compilation due to native byte-code support; Library of commonly used objects; and an Interaction Wizard for specifying events and actions.

Product: Web Theater 1.0 - creates, manages and delivers Internet video ($1,995)
Company: VXtreme, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (415) 614-0700
E-mail: info@vxtreme.com
URL: http://www.vxtreme.com
Platforms: Sun Solaris, IRIX, Windows NT
Description: Software suite for creating, managing, and delivering high-quality Internet video. Compression / decompression (codec) software delivers high frame rates and picture quality using bandwidths from 28.8 modems to LANs. Provides tools to integrate video with other applications and elements of the Web page, such as text, graphics, and Java applets. Delivers components necessary for capturing, compressing, delivering, and managing video files. Supports business video applications where the communication of an individual's expertise to a larger audience is required. Examples include executive communication to the workforce, customer support, employee training, and marketing promotion. Key components: Producer is a production environment for capturing and compressing video files from a variety of input sources. Server is a software-only streaming server for video, audio, and other synchronized multimedia content. Client is a plug-in to the Netscape Navigator or the Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers.

Product: Websetu - extends OLTP services over the World Wide Web
Company: Infosys Technologies Ltd. (Fremont, CA)
Telephone: (510) 770-3400
Fax: (510) 770-9469
E-mail: websetu@inf.com
URL: http://www.inf.com
Platforms: Windows, NT, HP-UX, SCO, AIX, Solaris, DEC, AS/400, S/390
Description: ITL-Infosys Technologies Ltd., developer of client/server systems for large, multi-national customers, introduced today a new suite of software products that enable application developers to integrate a corporation's enterprise or legacy systems and extend OLTP (on-line transaction processing) services over the World Wide Web.

Conferences

Product: IP Multicast Summit - one-day educational event for IP Multicast vendors and users ($95)
Company: Stardust Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Telephone: (408) 879-8080
Fax: (408) 879-8081
E-mail: info@stardust.com
URL: http://www.stardust.com/ipmulticast/events/summit.html
Platforms: Internet, intranets
Description: The event will feature a series of educational IP Multicast conference sessions, end-user case studies, and keynote presentations. The Summit is sponsored by over two dozen Internet and intranet infrastructure vendors, members of the IP Multicast Initiative. It features a series of educational seminars and presentations designed to educate vendors and end-users about IP Multicast. The event will begin with a keynote presentation entitled "The Future of IP Multicast" by John Hard, senior vice-president and chief technical officer at 3Com. Other sessions include: The IP Multicast Landscape; Enterprise Deployment of IP Multicast; The IP Multicast Initiative; Network Service Providers; and Meet the Inventors of IP Multicast.

Service

Product: FacePlate Audio Service - over 50 channels of stereo music
Company: TheDJ Network (San Carlos, CA)
Telephone: (415) 595-1340
E-mail: info@thedj.com
URL: http://www.thedj.com
Platforms: RealAudio 3.0
Description: An Internet audio service, enabling companies on the World Wide Web to broadcast over 50 channels of stereo quality music from their Web sites using RealAudio 3.0 technology. Participating Internet companies can design their own Web radio player, reflecting the style and image of their site. Music is broadcast directly from TheDJ Network, freeing Web site administrators from the complexities normally associated with RealAudio streaming, allowing them to focus on the style and presentation of the music. Companies may implement one or more of 50 music channels, ranging from Ska to New Age to Classic Rock n Roll. Participants can target a specific audience's musical tastes or appeal to a broad spectrum of listeners.

SunWorld Online takes no responsibility for claims made by the vendors or manufacturers of the products.