New or updated products for Sun Unix computing

Directory for the month of April 1997

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Training

Hardware

Product: NetAcquire 3000 - network data acquisition server ($8495)
Company: Real Time Integration, Inc. (Redmond, WA)
Telephone: (206) 883-7563
Fax: (206) 883-0463
E-mail: realtimeint@realtimeint.com
URL: http://www.realtimeint.com
Platforms: Sun Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, DOS, Windows 3.1,
Description: Network data acquisition server acquires, processes and updates real-time analog data at over 750,000 samples per second. Uses a standard Ethernet network to communicate with a Unix workstation monitoring and displaying the results. Can be used in local-area distributed test and measurement systems and is Internet-compatible. Onboard 486 processor and real-time operating system allows real-time data reduction, low-latency closed-loop control, and intelligent trigger scanning. Algorithms include FFT, digital filtering, sensor linearization, PID, peak detection, and statistical functions. TCP/IP Ethernet interface allows data acquisition from a variety of client computers and operating systems.

Product: Winterm 2000 Series - network computers (starting at under $1,000)
Company: Wyse Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 473-1200, (800) GET-WYSE, (800) 800-9973
Fax: (408) 922-5729
E-mail: info@wyse.com
URL: http://www.wyse.com
Platforms: Server: Windows NT
Description: Thin-client workstations for network, Internet and intranet access. Integrated 10baseT Ethernet connectivity, point-to-point protocol (PPP) Internet connectivity and an option slot for PC cards. Flat-panel, active-matrix, liquid crystal displays (LCD). Three models are available in no-monitor, 15-inch LCD, and 12.1-inch LCD configurations.

Product: Winterm 4000 Series - network computers (starting at $750)
Company: Wyse Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 473-1200, (800) GET-WYSE, (800) 800-9973
Fax: (408) 922-5729
E-mail: info@wyse.com
URL: http://www.wyse.com
Platforms: Windows, JavaOS
Description: A series of network computers designed around an open system architecture. Flash memory allows boot-up either locally or from a network server. Provides thin-client access to Windows, Java, HTML and legacy system applications. Offers display resolutions of up to 1280 x 1024. Includes a PC adapter card slot, a 16-bit CD-quality audio output port and an audio input port. Supports point-to-point protocol (PPP) and internal/external modem options for direct connection to corporate intranets and Internet service providers (ISPs).

Software

Product: Corporate Information Centre - Web-based business application development tool
Company: Information Dimensions (Dublin, OH)
Telephone: (614) 761-8083
Fax: (614) 761-7290
E-mail: info@idi.oclc.org
URL: http://www.idi.oclc.org
Platforms: Netscape Enterprise Server
Description: A prototyping tool for building document management applications. Uses customizable Web-based interfaces and document templates. Designed to manage large collections of intranet documents. Part of the Netscape AppFoundry collection of Web-based business applications.

Product: Create!print 4.0 - electronic forms software ($3,500)
Company: Create!print of America (Canoga Park, CA)
Telephone: (714) 957-1314, (800) 221-5882
Fax: (818) 992-6290
Platforms: HP-UX, AIX, SunOS, Sun Solaris, OSF1, SCO.
Description: Prints high-resolution laser forms without changing application software. Views and modifies multiple forms in split-screen mode. Each object in a form can be sized, rotated or colored. Scalable graphics such as logos, signatures and diagrams. Typeset quality fonts and form-specific drawing tools. Embeds forms within forms. Data can be moved, deleted or duplicated. New features: Packaged PostScript bundles a print job into a self-contained job stream that can be sent to any PostScript network printer. Embedded print procedures, such as duplex printing, save paper by combining two-up and four-up printing options. Other options: output tray destination, binding options and language selection.

Product: Filtrix 3.4 - word processing file conversion software ($289 - $995)
Company: Blueberry Software (Sebastopol, CA)
Telephone: (707) 829-5443
Fax: (707) 829-5380
E-mail: sales@blueberry.com
URL: http://www.blueberry.com
Platforms: DOS, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Sun Solaris,
Description: Imports from 24 word processing formats and exports to 15 formats. Filters between Word for Windows 2, 6 and 7, WordPerfect 6, Applix Words 4, FrameMaker, Interleaf, IslandWrite 4, and others. Includes graphics, tables, headers, footers, autonumbers and footnotes.

Product: Forte Application Environment - builds, deploys and manages distributed applications ($4,000 - $6,000)
Company: Forte Software, Inc. (Oakland, CA)
Telephone: (510) 869-3400
Fax: (510) 869-3480
E-mail: info@forte.com
URL: http://www.forte.com
Platforms: Java
Description: An integrated environment for creating distributed applications; now supports VisiBroker for Java, an object request broker that conforms to the CORBA 2.0 and Internet-ORB Protocol (IIOP) standards, which will provide the client component for Forte servers. Interoperability between client and server means that the development component converts object interfaces into Java code, creating client-side and server-side code. The run-time component manages communications between distributed applets and other distributed objects.

Product: Krakatoa - content management and data retrieval engine ($1,500)
Company: CADIS, Inc. (Boulder, CO)
Telephone: (303) 440-4363
Fax: (303) 440-5309
E-mail: info@cadis.com
URL: http://www.cadis.com
Platforms: Servers: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT; Clients:
Description: Interactive finding technology for the JavaStation. An object-oriented content management and data retrieval engine based on Java and JavaScript. Used by content publishers to provide access to complex or extensive information over a TCP/IP network such as the Internet or corporate intranets. Includes graphical selection displays, "one-to-many" searches, wizards and indexed enumerator selectors.

Product: Objective Grid 1.2 - drag and drop support for OLE ($395)
Company: Stingray Software, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC)
Telephone: (800) 924-4223, (919) 933-0892
E-mail: sales@stingsoft.com
URL: http://www.stingsoft.com
Platforms: Microsoft Visual C++ v1.5x, 4.x
Description: A tool for Microsoft Visual C++/MFC. Includes tooltips on cells, OLE drag and drop, and formatted field edits. New cell types: RTF Edit - multiple fonts and sizes in a single cell, find/replace, print and print preview; Masked Edit - restricts data entry on a cell-by-cell level; Colorwell - places a Win95-style pop-up color selector in a grid cell; and Progress Cell - provides a status of grid-cell operations.

Product: SNiFF+ - cross-platform, mixed-language development environment ($2,990)
Company: TakeFive Software, Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Telephone: (408) 777-1440
Fax: (408) 777-1444
E-mail: info@takefive.com
URL: http://www.takefive.com
Platforms: Unix
Description: Integrated, object-oriented software development environment. Supports multiple platforms, compilers, debuggers, editors and languages. Includes parsers for Java, FORTRAN, C/C++, and CORBA. Provides fault tolerance, error recovery, symbol cross-references, source code navigation, examination and analysis of classes, hierarchies, interfaces, import hierarchies, and an overview of all applets and symbols.

Product: Search '97 Agent Server Toolkit - adds search agents to applications ($14,995 for 5 users)
Company: Verity, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Telephone: (408) 541-1500, (800) 935-6246
E-mail: info@verity.com
URL: http://www.verity.com
Platforms: Sun Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Irix, Digital Unix, Windows NT
Description: Enables developers to integrate search agent technology into applications. Agents proactively search, filter, categorize and deliver information to users from the Internet or corporate intranets. Customizes agent and delivery operations to build push and pull information servers. Agents monitor multiple information sources using an advanced query language, knowledge bases, natural language recognition and fuzzy logic. Documents can be in their native formats (ASCII, HTML, word processors, etc.) and reside on newswires, the Web, databases, corporate applications and Internet services.

Product: Simplicity LAN 2.0 - teleconferencing software
Company: Paradise Software, Inc. (Jamesburg, NJ)
Telephone: (609) 655-0016, (703) 295-0911
Fax: (703) 295-0913
E-mail: support@paradise.com
URL: http://www.paradise.com
Platforms: Sun SPARCstation, HP, IBM PowerPC
Description: Collaborative software system for audio, whiteboard and videoconferencing over IP networks. Comprised of three modules. Monitor manages the overall conference, and includes an online phone book, database storage of conference settings and a speed dialer. Video Conferencing module is built around Parallax Graphics' engine. The Whiteboard supports the simultaneous viewing, mark-up and saving of documents, drawings and images in TIFF, NITF, GIFF and JFIF formats.

Product: Solstice Frame Relay 2.0.1 - network connectivity software ($1,295)
Company: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Menlo Park, CA)
Telephone: (800) SUN-SOFT
E-mail: info@sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com/solstice
Platforms: Sun Solaris (SPARC and Intel Editions)
Description: Provides LAN to WAN and LAN to Internet connections. Latest release supports Solaris servers based on the Intel hardware platform. Uses RFC 1490 to route IP traffic. Supports data rates of 19.2 to 64 Kbps without additional hardware.

Product: UIM/X 3.0 - GUI development tool for CDE/Motif ($5,000)
Company: Black & White Software (Campbell, CA)
Telephone: (408) 369-7400
Fax: (408) 369-7406
E-mail: info@blackwhite.com
URL: http://www.blackwhite.com
Platforms: Sun Solaris, HP-UX
Description: User interface management system with an embedded C++ interpreter and OOP support. Supports encapsulation, polymorphism, and class hierarchies. Developers can create, modify and test GUI layouts and behaviors without compiling. Provides a foundation for building distributed CORBA/IIOP, database and Web applications.

Product: WebGrabber - downloads Web content to a CD-R drive ($79.95)
Company: Elektroson, Inc. (Campbell, CA)
Telephone: (888) IGRABIT, (408) 371-4800
Fax: (408) 371-4895
E-mail: sales@elektroson.com
URL: http://www.elektroson.com
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows NT
Description: Software utility that works with a Web browser to download audio, graphics and text files directly from the Internet to a CD-ROM. Files are maintained in the HTML format on CD-ROMs so they can be archived and browsed as needed.

Product: Zero Exposure Transaction System - secure convoy technology for Internet transactions ($14,500 - $18,800)
Company: Network Engineering Technologies, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 453-7500
Fax: (408) 437-0651
E-mail: info@fireants.com
URL: http://www.fireants.com
Platforms: SunOS, Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows NT
Description: Protects stored Internet transactions from unauthorized access. Includes a Web server, firewall system, and transaction server. Permits only one-way data transmission -- from the Internet to the repository. Information is held in memory at the Web server only long enough to encrypt it. It then goes to the transaction server, which is behind the firewall. It decrypts the data as needed for storage or processing. The firewall system provides protection against hacker attacks and the Web server provides transport security and encryption. Includes a pre-programmed credit card verification and storage facility.

Training

Product: Introduction to Programming Java Applets using Java Workshop - interactive tutorial CD-ROM ($49.95)
Company: MindQ Publishing, Inc. (Herndon, VA)
Telephone: (408) 927-6685, (800) 323-4560
Fax: (703) 708-9381
E-mail: info@mindq.com
URL: http://www.mindq.com
Platforms: Java
Description: Part of a series of tutorials on Java programming designed to help developers build new skills that use Java to give Internet applications multi-user networking and real-time interactivity. Includes interactive code examples, video, narration, hyperlinks, on-screen simulations, online help, glossaries and hands-on exercises. The tutorial is currently bundled with SunSoft's Java Workshop 1.0, an Internet multimedia development toolkit.

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