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July 1995
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New Products for the week of July 3rd.
New Products for the week of July 17th.
New Products for the week of July 24th.
Product:
MBus PixelBurst
($1,850.00)
Company: Antares Microsystems, Inc.
(Los Gatos CA)
Telephone: 800-726-SBUS(7287) 408-370-7287
Fax: 408-370-7649
E-mail: marketing@antares.com
Platforms: SPARCstation 10 & 20 Solaris 2.3
Description:
High Speed Ripper for Adobes CPSI Pre-Press applications. PixelBurst
has a 64K MMU, coupled with a 36-Bit Physical address for DMA Cycles.
Product:
Quad Ethernet
(List - $995.00)
Company: Antares Microsystems, Inc.
(Los Gatos, CA)
Telephone: 800-726-SBUS(7287) 408-370-7287
Fax: 408-370-7649
E-mail: marketing@antares.com
Platforms: all SPARC platforms, under Sun OS and Solaris 2.3
Description:
Four independent Ethernet channels on one SBus card. 10Mbit per second
concurrently. All four ports fully buffered.
Product:
RAID Lite
(starting at $4,995)
Company: ANDATACO
(San Diego, CA)
Telephone: 800-334-9191; 619-453-9191
Fax: 619-453-9294
E-mail: inquire@andataco.com
URL: http://www.andataco.com
Platforms: Solaris 1.x (SunOS 4.1.3) and Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.3 & above) HP, SGI, IBM
Description:
RAID Lite incorporates a RISC CPU, Fast Wide SCSI processors, and supports RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, and 5. A write-back cache promises quick response time with I/O-intensive database applications. Available in desktop, deskside and rackmount enclosures, RAID Lite supports as many as 35 drives for up to 140GB of on-line storage capacity. Includes a client/server RAID Management Utility (RMU) with a common graphical user interface across multiple CPU and operating system platforms.
Product:
RAPID-Tape
(Starting at $21,536)
Company: ANDATACO
(San Diego, CA)
Telephone: 800-334-9191; 619-453-9191
Fax: 619-453-9294
E-mail: inquire@andataco.com
URL: http://www.andataco.com
Description:
Appearing to host as a single tape drive, RAPID-Tape
delivers fast backups by harnessing the performance and capacity
of an entire array of tape drives. Digital Linear Tape (DLT), 8mm and 4mm
tape drives and advanced Redundant Array of Parallel Independent Tape
(RAPID) technology are incorporated in a manner compatible with all major
operating systems and backup software utilities. These arrays provide up
to four times the capacity and data transfer rate of a single tape drive.
With RAPID-Tape stacker systems, 1.1TB of unattended backup is possible.
Product:
SPRITE PRI Sbus ISDN card
(Introductory pricing is available until the end of July.)
Company: Newbridge Microsystems
Telephone: 800-267-7231
Fax: fax phone
E-mail: nms-inquire@newbridge.com
Platforms: Sun SPARCstation, SPARCserver(tm), or Netra(tm) Internet Servers.
Description:
The SPRITE Primary Rate ISDN (PRI) card is an SBus
PRI WAN Access Card that provides integrated primary rate ISDN connectivity.
The SPRITE PRI card provides everything required to support ISDN connections;
integral Channel Service Unit (CSU), Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) software,
security measures using Calling Line Identification (CLID), Password
Authentication Procedures (PAP), and Challenge handshake Authentication
Procedures (CHAP), RIP, OSPF, and BGP routing protocols, and fully network
managed using SunNet Manager(tm).
Designed to provide access for remote BRI and SW56 users, the SPRITE PRI card
can discriminate (accept or reject) between voice and data calls. SPRITE PRI
provides three layers of security before a remote user has access to corporate resources.
Product:
fast Ethernet
(List $795.00)
Company: Antares Microsystems, Inc.
(160B Albright Way, Los Gatos, Ca 95030)
Telephone: 800-726-SBUS(7287) 408-370-7287
Fax: 408-370-7649
E-mail: marketing@antares.com
Platforms: SS2/IPX Solaris 2.x, 4m class systems Sun O.S. & Solaris 2.x.
Description:
Antares Fast Ethernet has a 10/100Mbps RJ45 port. The Fast Ethernet
card is Plug-and-Play.
Product:
EPC ANSI C
(from $895. Multi-user and site licenses available)
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
(Saratoga, California)
Telephone: 800 EPC 1110, 408-867-1039
Fax: 408-867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.X and DRS/NX (SPARC and Intel)
Description:
A full implementation of the ANSI Standard, which achieves fast compile
and run time performance thanks to optimization techniques. The
compiler uses a USL (Unix Systems Laboratories) front-end, allied to
EPC's code-generator technology. Object code is generated
in standard formats, thus facilitating mixed language programming.
Product:
EPC C++
(from $995. Multi-user and site licenses available)
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
(Saratoga, California)
Telephone: 800 EPC 1110, 408-867-1039
Fax: 408-867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.X and DRS/NX (SPARC and Intel)
Description:
A thorough implementation of the C++ language defined in the ANSI Base
Document and the AT&T specification. It is a true compiler, not a
pre-processor. The compiler is packaged with the AT&T and Rogue Wave
tools.h++ Class Libraries.
Product:
EPC Debugger
(Bundled with EPC's compiler products)
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
(Saratoga, California)
Telephone: 800 EPC 1110, 408-867-1039
Fax: 408-867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.X and DRS/NX (SPARC and Intel)
Description:
An interactive debugger for use at both source and machine
level. Interfaces to all EPC compiler products and has a Graphical
User Interface to further aid ease of use. An integrated utility, named
Code-It, allows the user to switch between compiler, editor and
debugger for improved productivity.
Product:
EPC Fortran 77
(from $995. Multi-user and site licenses available)
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
(Saratoga, California)
Telephone: 800 EPC 1110, 408-867-1039
Fax: 408-867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Platforms: SunOS (SPARC), Solaris 2.X and DRS/NX (SPARC and Intel)
Description:
A NIST validated, ANSI standard native compiler, greatly extended to
provide compatibility with other leading proprietary Fortran
implementations. Achieves very fast compile and run time performance
thanks to extensive optimization techniques. Provides
diagnostic information, and allows for cross calling with other
languages.
Product:
EPC Fortran 90
(from $1295. Multi-user and site licenses available)
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
(Saratoga, California)
Telephone: 800-EPC-1110, 408-867-1039
Fax: 408-867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Platforms: SunOS (SPARC), Solaris 2.X and DRS/NX (SPARC and Intel)
Description:
A full FORTRAN 90 compiler -- not a pre-processor -- adhering to the ANSI
standard. The compiler was developed so as to provide exceptional
performance, and to generate thorough diagnostic information. The
custom-built EPC Fortran 90 Compilation Environment exploits the modular
nature of the language and assists application development and maintenance.
Product:
EPC Modula-2
(from $1995. Multi-user and site licenses available)
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
(Saratoga, California)
Telephone: 800 EPC 1110, 408-867-1039
Fax: 408-867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Platforms: SunOS (SPARC), Solaris 2.X and DRS/NX (SPARC and Intel)
Description:
An implementation of the language defined by Niklaus Wirth, containing extensions. It supports all SUN Modula-2 extensions. The compiler includes standard libraries, program and library maintenance utilities, and full support for run-time diagnostics.
Product:
EPC Pascal-E
(from $1495. Multi-user and site licenses available)
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
(Saratoga, California)
Telephone: 800 EPC 1110, 408-867-1039
Fax: 408-867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Platforms: SunOS (SPARC), Solaris 2.X and DRS/NX (SPARC and Intel)
Description:
Major features include: module facility, new data
types, direct-access file handling, generalized function results and
support for run-time diagnostics. The extensions can be
suppressed so as to provide conformance to the ISO Standard for Pascal.
Product:
FullPress
(Starts at $7,500 for a 6 (Mac.) user license)
Company: Xinet
(Berkeley, CA)
Telephone: 510-845-0555
Fax: 510-644-2680
E-mail: sales@xinet.com
URL: http://www.xinet.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.2
Description:
An integrated OPI server offering high-performance file serving, flexible print spoolng, and efficient image management. FullPress utilizes multitasking
UNIX platforms, including Solaris 2.2 systems. Macintosh users can share files over a network quickly, without leaving their familiar Mac environment.
Product:
I/PRO System
(($250-$3000 per month, depending on site traffic level & options))
Company: Internet Profiles Corporation
Telephone: 415-322-9600
Fax: 415-322-9818
E-mail: info@ipro.com
URL: http://www.ipro.com/
Description:
Offers organizations with World Wide Web sites the capability to
track, monitor and analyze site usage. With the I/PRO System, Internet
publishers, advertisers, catalog producers and others are better able to
understand how end-users are accessing Web sites.
Product:
IP-Watcher
(Varies, depending on size of network.)
Company: En Garde Systems, LLC
(St. Louis, MO)
Telephone: 314-367-6402
Fax: 314-367-3555
E-mail: mcn@engarde.com
URL: http://nad.infostructure.com/watcher.html
Platforms: SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x
Description:
A network security and administration tool which gives the user
the ability to monitor and control any login session on his or her network.
IP-Watcher is a tool for investigating suspicious
activity, obtaining evidence of misuse, and even for stopping malicious users
before they do any damage.
Product:
NetProbe
(Starting at $3,495. Dependent on network size.)
Company: InfoStructure Services & Technologies
(Ames, Iowa, USA)
Telephone: 800-525-7976 515-292-7976
Fax: 515-296-9910
E-mail: info@infostructure.com
URL: http://www.netins.net/showcase/infostructure
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris
Description:
A security analysis program designed to search your
entire network looking for security holes and configuration errors which
an intruder could use to break into your systems. It scrutinizes each machine on a network for ways in which someone
could break into that computer. It checks for all CERT and CIAC
advisories which can be exploited remotely, plus additional
misconfigurations and other vulnerabilities. Reports are generated with html links to the appropriate advisory concerning how to fix the vulnerability.
Product:
Orbix
($1000 - $5000)
Company: IONA Technologies
Telephone: 800-672-4948, or +353 1 6686522
Fax: +353 1 668 6573
E-mail: info@iona.ie
URL: http://www.iona.ie
Platforms: All Unix and Windows platforms
Description:
A full and complete implementation of the Object Management
Group's (OMG's) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).
With Orbix, programmers can develop distributed applications using
object-oriented client-server technology. Orbix provides a C++ language
binding for CORBA. Orbix on Windows offers an integration with
Microsoft OLE, allowing developers to build front ends with OLE tools
such as Visual Basic.
Product:
Razor - 3.5
($495/license - volume discounts available)
Company: Tower Concepts, Inc.
(New Hartford, NY)
Telephone: 315-724-3540
Fax: 315-724-3129
E-mail: info@tower.com
URL: http://www.tower.com
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX
Description:
Razor is an integrated package for problem tracking and file version
control. It is highly configurable, and runs through a Motif GUI,
command line interface, and e-mail connections.
Product:
SLIXSCAN 3.1
(US$ 1099)
Company: SLIX GmbH
(Eching Germany)
Telephone: +49 89 319 6433
Fax: +49 89 319 6445
E-mail: slix@slix.de
Platforms: SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x with OpenWin or Motif on Sun SPARC platforms.
Description:
A scanner control program. SLIXSCAN's GUI offers
users access to the functionalities of attached
scanners and storage of scan data in various popular graphic
formats (PNM, TIFF, PostScript, JPEG, XWD). SLIXSCAN is
configurable. It allows scaling a scanner's performance for
obtaining the optimal results while scanning different input
materials. Users can configure SLIXSCAN interactively.
SLIXSCAN also offers interaction with XV, the popular
shareware program by John Bradley.
Product:
Summertime for Solaris x86 (Solaris 2.4)
(USA:$69 - Europe:95DM)
Company: Silicon Technology
Telephone: +49 5622 99690
Fax: +49 5622 996948
E-mail: ben@mathematik.uni-kassel.de
Platforms: x86
Description:
A public-domain-Software collection for Summer 95 for Solaris.x86 &
2.4. All Tools (Emacs 19.29, XEmacs 19.12, X11R6, WWW-Server, ...) are in
Sun PKG-Format, so installation and removal is quite easy.
Product:
Telemetry Series 100/200
(from $995.00 to 7995.00)
Company: cirque labs, inc.
(Nederland, CO)
Telephone: 303-258-0100
Fax: 303-258-7255
E-mail: sales@cirque.com
Platforms: Solaris on SPARC
Description:
Offers Solaris systems managers a set of
easy to use tools for performance monitoring and management.
Telemetry Series 200 adds Oracle7 measurement
capabilities. Features include real-time monitoring of over 500
Solaris and Oracle performance metrics in graphical format, data
logging with statistical analysis, and event-based triggering. Custom
metrics may be incorporated using the Synthetic Statistic utility.
Product:
Visual Thought
(US$1295 per floating license, US$695 per node-locked license)
Company: Confluent, Inc.
(132 Encline Court; San Francisco, CA 94127-1838)
Telephone: 800-780-2838, 415-586-8700
Fax: 415-586-8838
E-mail: info@confluent.com
FlashBack: 1173, 1214
URL: http://www.confluent.com
Platforms: Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1, Sun SPARC Solaris 2, HP 9000/700 HP-UX 9
Description:
A flowcharting and diagramming tool for creating software diagrams
(using Booch, Rumbaugh, Entity-Relationship and others), flowcharts
(for TQM and ISO 9000), process and block diagrams, network diagrams,
org charts, technical illustrations, and presentation graphics.
Drag-and-drop shapes from the library of standard palettes can be used
to quickly generate many diagram types, or create custom palettes.
Users can create software diagrams using standard methodologies, or
custom mix methodologies at a fraction of the cost of CASE tools.
Edit diagrams with rubberbanding connections, 100 levels of
undo, "live" WYSIWYG, and more.
Launch sound files, hierarchical diagrams, spreadsheets, or other
applications with a single click to make your diagrams more
informative.
Product:
Wide X Window(TM) 1.2
Company: MicroObject Ltd.
(Japan, Tokyo)
Telephone: + (81) 44-946-0744
Fax: + (81) 44-946-0744
E-mail: jul2@Lehigh.EDU
Platforms: SunOS 4.1.x , Linux , EWS 4800, etc
Description:
Chinese X11R5 compatible Xlib with IME to handle Chinese input.
Both simplified Chinese (used in mail land) and
traditional Chinese (used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) is supported.
Compatible with X11R5: Almost all applications developed on Xaw or
Motif 1.2 such as xedit, xmh, xmpostit, etc. can process Chinese as well
as English without any change.
All Chinese input is done by a special X client called IME for WxW.
(IME: Input Method Engine)
Support most important Chinese input methods including QuanPin, ZhuPin,
WuBi, QuanJiao, GB code, etc.
Product:
Xaminer
($30,000)
Company: Performance Awareness Corporation
(Raleigh NC)
Telephone: 919-870-8800
Fax: 919-870-7416
E-mail: info@PACorp.com
Platforms: AIX3.2+, DG/UX 5.4+, DRS/NX, ICL Sys V R4.2, HP-UX, Interactive 386ix, IRIX 4.0.X, Motorola 5.4, NCR 3000 Sys V R4.2, Alpha-OSF/1, SCO Unix System V, Solaris 2+, SunOS, ULTRIX4+
Description:
An X window application that allows you to perform
journaling of user sessions. Xaminer records user sessions,
archives the session to a storage device, and then plays them
back when requested at a later date. The Xaminer recorder runs
transparent to users, recording user sessions in real time.
Product:
preVue-C/S
(based on the number of emulated users (or user load level wish to test the enterprise-wide system))
Company: Performance Awareness Corporation
(Raleigh NC)
Telephone: 919/870-8800
Fax: 919/870-7416
E-mail: info@PACorp.com
Platforms: AIX3.2+, DG/UX 5.4+, DRS/NX, ICL Sys V R4.2, HP-UX, Interactive 386ix, IRIX 4.0.X, Motorola 5.4, NCR 3000 Sys V R4.2, Alpha-OSF/1, SCO Unix System V, Solaris 2+, SunOS, ULTRIX4+
Description:
Automates the complexity of testing an application
across a distributed and cross-platform environment, and provides
data that is quantified through realistic and reproducible tests.
preVue-C/S applies a system workload and measures response times
as realistically as possible by emulating client activities at
the PCs (which eliminates the need to have PC hardware present
and keeps testing costs low).
Product:
preVue-X
(price based on the number of emulated users (or user load level wish to test the X Window GUI application))
Company: Performance Awareness Corporation
(Raleigh NC)
Telephone: 919-870-8800
Fax: 919-870-7416
E-mail: info@PACorp.com
Platforms: AIX3.2+, DG/UX 5.4+, DRS/NX, ICL Sys V R4.2, HP-UX, Interactive 386ix, IRIX 4.0.X, Motorola 5.4, NCR 3000 Sys V R4.2, Alpha-OSF/1, SCO Unix System V, Solaris 2+, SunOS, ULTRIX4+
Description:
Provides a single automated testing solution for:
regression testing, stress load testing, and
performance measurement of X window systems. preVue-X
provides a GUI for testers to automatically
record single or multiple X clients, create test scripts, trace
X protocol activity between clients and the server, and
evaluate the summarized reports and graphs generated.
Product:
The zApp Developer's Suite
($995 to $4995)
Company: Inmark Development Corporation
E-mail: info@inmark.com
URL: http://www.inmark.com
Platforms: MS Windows, OS/2, IBM RS/6000 AIX, HP-UX 9.x, SCO, Solaris x86, Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1x., SGI, Unixware
Description:
A set of fully object-oriented development tools for designing and
creating cross-platform applications. It combines the ease-of-use of
visual programming with the power, flexibility, and performance of the
industry's standard object-oriented language, C++. The zApp
Developer's Suite consists of zApp Factory, a visual programming
environment for building cross-platform applications, the zApp
Application Framework, the industry's leading portable C++ application
development framework, and the zApp Interface Pack, a set of high-level
visual objects and custom controls for building cross-platform
applications.
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