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August 1995
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New or updated products for advanced systems computing.
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August 1995
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Product:
EN166x MultiPacket Accelerator (MPX) Ethernet adapters
(from $29)
Company: Accton Technology Corp.
(San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 452-8900
Fax: (408) 452-8988
Platforms: ISA, PC-NFS, Solaris X86
Description:
The new MPX2 adapters have been optimized using on-chip error checking,
a new parallel-tasking architecture, and enhanced software drivers. The
EtherCombo-16 (EN1660) 10BASE-T/10BASE-2/10BASE-5 adapters give users
the option of three cabling media and are claimed to be
self-configuring. The EtherPair-16 (EN1661) is a 10BASE-T adapter with
RJ-45 connectors. The EtherCoax-16 (EN1662) is Accton's new adapter for
10BASE-2 cabling.
Product:
Encore Desktop DLT 2000XT Model ENC-6001-30S
($5,961) & Desktop DLT 4000 Model ENC-6001-40S
($9,071)
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: SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3 and 2.4, also HP, SGI, IBM
Description:
The Encore desktop DLT 2000XT, a backup drive for Suns, promises a native
15GB capacity, can transfer data at a native rate of 1.25MB/sec., and
can access a file in an average of 45 seconds. The Encore desktop DLT
4000 has a native 20GB capacity, can transfer data at a native rate of
1.5MB/sec., and can access a file in an average of 68 seconds.
Product:
IEM Products on Sun
Company: IEM, Inc.
(Fort Collins, CO)
Telephone: (970) 221-3005
Fax: (970) 221-1909
E-mail: info@iem.com
Platforms: Sun running Solaris, Hewlett-Packard
Description:
The following IEM products are now supported on Sun: 4mm and 8mm
Carousels (20-, 40- and 60-tape); Alexandria Network Backup and Archive
Librarian; 8mm 10-tape Autofeeder (EXB10h); 4mm Dual-Drive, 25-Tape
Datawheels (with or without barcode reader); 4mm 12-tape Autofeeder;
4mm 6-Tape Autofeeder; Building Blocks - including RAID solutions.
Product:
Multi-Protocol WAN Controllers, WanMultiServer 3000 & 3000 Plus
(Starting price $1000 for 4 ports)
Company: Aurora Technologies, Inc.
(Waltham, MA)
Telephone: (617) 290-4800
Fax: (617) 290-4844
E-mail: info@auratek.com
Platforms: SBus-based system; OS: SunOS and Solaris 2.x
Description:
Aurora Technologies' Multi-Protocol WAN Controllers are now SunLink
compatible, allowing users of Sun's suite of SNA v9.0 products, PPP,
and X.25 to use the most popular synchronous network protocols. Aurora
has also extended the support to include Sun's "zsh"
interface, enabling customer-written synchronous protocols to operate
and take advantage of the Aurora environment. Unique features include
sync/async connections from four to 64 ports from a single SBus or
ISA/EISA slot, baud rates up to 128Kbps full-duplex per sync line,
on-board intelligence, and large, dual-ported DMA buffers, which handle
heavy traffic without compromising system performance.
Product:
S+ Series X Terminal with Telephony
($2,695-$3,495)
Company: Phase X Systems, Inc.
(Beaverton, OR)
Telephone: (800) 845-4064, (503) 531-2400
Fax: (503) 531-2401
E-mail: info@PhaseX.com
URL: http://www.PhaseX.com:8000
Platforms: X Window, Hosts: Sun, HP, DEC, SGI, IBM RS6000, etc.
Description:
An Intel 960 RISC-chip based X terminal with integrated telephony as
well as video/audio multimedia integration, 1.9 to 3.2 Xmarks, and a
high speed SBus expansion option that includes ISDN. Color monitors
range from 14 inch to 21 inches; also available is a 19-inch gray-scale.
Product:
SpringWell Intelligent SCSI Subsystem
Company: Carmel Graphic Systems
(Ontario, Canada)
Telephone: (416) 449-4353
Fax: (416) 447-2819
E-mail: aglynn@ibm.net
Platforms: Mac, Power Mac, MS Windows, Sun Solaris 1.x & 2.x, OS/2, others
Description:
Designed for workgroups dealing with the large files common to the
electronic prepress, publishing and multimedia industries. Virtual
"disks" are mountable/dismountable from many platforms. These
disks can be worked on as though they were local disks inside the
workstation, then released and passed on to the next station.
SpringWell's new technology prevents wasting space on the disk array
and maintains high file availability by locking files on an individual
basis. SpringWell can also share SCSI devices such as scanners,
proofers, magneto-optical drives, tape drives, and Syquest drives.
Product:
X.25+
(X.25+ $1995, X.25 $1495)
Company: MAGMA
(San Diego, California)
Telephone: (800) 285-8990, (619) 457-0750
Fax: (619) 457-0769
E-mail: info@magma.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.x, SPARC computers and compatibles
Description:
EXPRESS X.25 and MAGMA's synchronous serial communications provides Sun
users with a hardware/software solution that allows computers to
communicate over worldwide Packet Switched Data Networks (PSDNs) and
also provides customers with a virtual TCP/IP network over their X.25
backbone. This allows standard TCP/IP applications such as NFS, X
Window, or remote logins to communicate over an X.25 circuit at speeds
of up to 256Kbps. EXPRESS X.25 conforms to 1984 and 1988 CCITT
recommendations.
Product:
CDR Publisher 3.4
($1,495)
Company: Creative Digital Research
(San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 255-0999 x 224
Fax: (408) 255-1011
E-mail: paul@cdr1.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.3, 2.4, SunOS 4.1.X, CD-ROM Recorders from Kodak, Philips, Plasmon, Sony. Yamaha
Description:
Desktop CD-ROM Pre-Mastering Software for Sun. The new version of CDR
Publisher has true three-level hybrid capability; supporting PC (ISO
9660), Unix (ISO 9960 with Rock Ridge Extension), and Macintosh (HFS)
file formats integrated on a single CD-ROM. This CD-ROM format -- HyCD
(hybrid CD) -- can be read on PC, Unix, and Macintosh computer systems,
eliminating the need to create separate CD-ROMs for each computer
system. HyCD preserves all the data in the native environment. All data
are shared not duplicated. HyCD preserves:
Product:
DynaWeb 1.0 Web server
Company: Electronic Book Technologies Inc.
(Providence. RI)
Telephone: (401) 421-9550
Fax: (401) 421-9551
E-mail: info@ebt.com
URL: http://www.ebt.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.x, HPUX 9.x, SGI IRIX 5.x, IBM AIX 3.2.x, DEC Alpha/OSF 1.x, UnixWare 2.x, and Solaris x86.
Description:
An SGML-based, large document World-Wide Web (Web) server that serves
large SGML documents to Web browsers for navigating and searching.
DynaWeb provides important benefits to both DynaText publishers and to
Web end-users by enabling remote Web browsers to fully exploit
DynaText-like functionality on the Web. The DynaText/DynaWeb
environment provides publishers with a single solution for
cross-platform publishing via the Web, CD-ROM, and LAN/WAN. DynaWeb
can be integrated with HTTP servers with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and
Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) capabilities via CGI.
Product:
I/AUDIT
(one-time report is $5,000; quarterly reports are $3,000 each; monthly reports are $1,500 each.)
Company: I/PRO Corp.
(San Francisco, CA)
Telephone: (415) 975-5800
Fax: (415) 975-5818
E-mail: info@ipro.com
URL: http://www.ipro.com
Description:
I/PRO provides independent audits of World Wide Web site use through
standard reports. The company provides services and products that
measure Web site use for Internet publishers, advertisers, catalog
producers and others. Information contained in I/AUDIT reports, which
can be generated on a one-time, monthly or quarterly basis, includes:
Product:
Micro Planner X-Pert
($1995)
Company: Micro Planning International
(Denver, CO)
Telephone: (800) 852-PLAN
E-mail: sales@microplanning.com
URL: http://www.microplanning.com/plan
Platforms: Apple Macintosh, Sun, HP, SGI, & MS Windows
Description:
Multi-platform project management software. Among the features and
enhancements in the new versions are: selective archiving (allow any
piece in an enterprise wide project management system to be
rebaselined), and schedule analysis enhancements (e.g. 10 times faster,
on the fly schedule analysis). Micro Planner can be used independently
or can be combined to provide an Organization Project Management (OPM)
solution. Micro Planner Manager is designed for the project level,
while X-Pert is designed for use at higher levels in the organization
for consolidating and managing many projects or subprojects.
Product:
MMail
($320)
Company: Atelier de Software Ltd
(Avon, BS24. 6TL. England)
Telephone: +44 (1934) 822 983
Fax: +44 (1934) 820 209
E-mail: mmail@atelier.demon.co.uk
Platforms: Sun/SPARC SunOS 4.1.2 or greater, Solaris 2.1 or greater
Description:
A WYSIWYG text composition, visualization, and MIME mailer. Text can
be organized with different fonts, inline images (images mixed with
text) are supported, and free full functionality evaluation is
available via FTP. MMail features include WYSIWYG full text
composition and visualization (MIME/text/enriched or
MIME/application/MMail), adjustable margins and line attributes (left,
center, right, spread, fixed), IMAP2 interface (and IMAP4 when it
becomes available), hyphenation (in 17 different languages), spell (via
Unix spell), multiple fonts (ISO-8859-1), MIME/attachments via mailcap
to viewer, alias and group, mail box filing/editing, ignored unwanted
headers, automatic file carbon copy, file include (signature, template,
image), message find/sort/move/delete/udelete/history, and database of
known MIME/MMail users.
Product:
Open Market WebReporter
($495)
Company: Open Market, Inc.
(Cambridge, MA)
Telephone: (617) 621-9500
Fax: (617) 621-1703
URL: http://www.openmarket.com
Platforms: Sun Solaris, SunOS, Digital Unix, BSD/386 operating systems
Description:
Translates data about a World Wide Web site into meaningful
demographics for business managers and system administrators. A user
can create customized reports incorporating up to 18 different fields.
Reports can be output in a variety of file formats including plain
text, HTML, or coma-delimited data for importing into spreadsheets.
Product:
Platinum InfoExpress, InfoRefiner, SQLAssist and ProReports
Company: Platinum technology, inc.
(Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Telephone: (708) 620-5000
Fax: (708) 691-0417
E-mail: woodard@platinum.com
URL: http://www.platinum.com
Description:
A data warehouse solution for Solaris that encompasses data extraction, data refinement, data distribution,
and data access functions. Platinum's data warehousing promises to
provide an enterprise-wide solution that operates with leading
industry technologies. Platinum includes the following tools:
Product:
PhaserPrint
($495)
Company: Tektronix Inc.
(Wilsonville, Oregon)
Telephone: (800) 835-6100, (503) 682-7377
Fax: (503) 682-2980
E-mail: support@colorprinters.tek.com
URL: http://www.tek.com/Color_Printers
Platforms: Sun, SGI, HP,IBM, DEC
Description:
Printer management software for Unix. With push-button control of
printer features, it provides the same ease of use as a PC or Macintosh
driver. PhaserPrint also provides fast raster file and screen copy
image printing. It is Adobe PPD based, which makes it compatible with
all current and future Tektronix color printers.
Product:
Product X
($995 for 8-user system)
Company: Emphasys, Inc.
(Eden Prairie, MN)
Telephone: (800) 800-3399
Fax: (612) 941-9750
Platforms: Unix, DOS
Description:
Consolidates and manages Unix applications in a menu-driven desktop
environment on both PC's and character-based ASCII terminals. Through
its logical point and shoot interface, Product X allows you to create
modern menu systems for character-based applications, set up multiple
level application-based security, and customize users' desktop
environments.
Product:
SES/objectbench Version 2.1 for Sun Solaris
Company: Scientific and Engineering Software, Inc. (SES)
(Austin, TX)
Telephone: (512) 328-5544
Fax: (512) 327-6646
URL: http://www.ses.com/
Platforms: Sun Solaris 2.4, SunOS, HP/9000 Model 700 HP-UX workstations
Description:
SES/objectbench, now available for Solaris, is an object-oriented
analysis and design modeling toolset. It includes a graphical editor
that allows users to create and validate models. Models are dynamically
checked for completeness and accuracy through user-controlled
simulation and on-screen animation.
Product:
Siren Fax 2.1
($2,895 Fax Server, $100 PC Client, $195 Motif user agent)
Company: Siren Software
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (800) 45-SIREN, (415) 322-0600
Fax: (415) 322-9999
E-mail: info@siren.com
URL: http://viscorp.com
Platforms: Sun SPARC, HP9000, IBM RS/6000, PowerPC/AIX, Data General Aviion, Motorola 88000
Description:
Networked, secure, high-volume fax software. It allows users to create,
view, manage, send, and print faxes from their desktops.
Product:
SoftQuad HoTMetaL PRO 2.0
(lists for $195 US; is available for $99US for a ltd time; upgrade price is $59 US.)
Company: SoftQuad Inc.
(Toronto, ON Canada, M8X 2W4)
Telephone: (800) 387-2777 (416) 239-4801
Fax: 416-239-7105
E-mail: mail@sq.com
URL: http://www.sq.com
Platforms: MS-Windows, Macintosh, Unix
Description:
Version 2.0 promises Web publishers more flexibility and control over
the creation of their documents than earlier versions. Features include
an import filter that imports and converts documents created in a
variety of other packages, including MS-Word, and Wordperfect.
Product:
Visigenic ODBC DriverSet
($595)
Company: Visigenic Software, Inc.
(San Mateo, CA)
Telephone: 415-286-1900
Fax: 415-286-2464
URL: http://www.visigenic.com
Platforms: Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SCO, SGI, AT&T, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh
Description:
Provides cross-platform access to multiple SQL databases from
ODBC-enabled applications. The DriverSet includes drivers that provide
your application access to enterprise-wide relational databases
including Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, and
the IBM DB2 Family. Visigenic's ODBC drivers have been designed to
support the development of mission-critical applications.
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Last updated: 7 August 1995
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