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August 1995
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August 1995
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Product:
Defining the Internet Opportunity
Company: O'Reilly & Associates
(Sebastopol, CA)
Telephone: (707) 829-0515 x231, (800) 998-9938
Fax: (707) 829-0104
E-mail: florence@ora.com
URL: http://www.ora.com/survey/
Description:
A study of Internet users provides information about their reasons for
using the Internet, Web, or other online services and their online and
offline purchasing patterns. Highlights of the study include features
that attract Web surfers to a Web site and factors that will transform
a web surfer into a web buyer, including their past and expected future
online transactions.
Product:
Taming C++: Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects, by J. Soukup
(list price $48.50)
Company: Addison-Wesley
(Reading, MA)
E-mail: dlaw@world.std.com
Description:
This book describes a new approach to C++ architecture and the design
of class libraries. The central idea is that by representing relations
(or patterns) as objects one can prevent tangled networks of classes
and relations. Additionally, the book contains a comprehensive
treatment of data persistence. Memory blasting, the method used
successfully in Modula and the ObjectStore system, is covered in detail
along with several other methods of implementing automatic
persistence.
Product:
Distributed OMNI Soft Platform
(Call Company for Quote)
Company: DGM&S, Inc.
(Mt. Laurel, NJ)
Telephone: (609) 866-1212
Fax: (609) 866-8850
E-mail: info@dgms.com
Platforms: Solaris SPARC
Description:
DGM & S announces the inclusion of its Distributed OMNI Soft
Platform for Solaris on SPARC computers. DGM & S's OMNI for Solaris
provides a high availability solution to support SS7 protocols on SPARC
hardware running Solaris.
Product:
EMBLA Lite
($49)
Company: ICL ProSystems
(Reston, VA; Linkoping, Sweden)
Telephone: 1-800-755-Unix (UniDirect, reseller)
Fax: (703) 648-3350
E-mail: marcomms@pro.icl.se
URL: http://www.pro.icl.se
Platforms: Windows
Description:
A free, 30-day evaluation Windows client for Internet e-mail. Supports
SMTP and MIME, automatic MIME encoding (also user-selectable
uuencode), and multiple, mixed attachment types. Drag &
drop to organize messages in folders. Save draft messages to a
"prep" folder. Supports 7-bit ASCII character sets for 11
European languages. Requires TCP/IP, Winsock 1.1.
Product:
Exchange Pro
(from $995.00)
Company: TGI Technologies Ltd.
(Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
Telephone: (604) 872-6676
Fax: (604) 872-6601
FlashBack: 1320
Platforms: Solaris 2.x, Sun OS 4.1.x; Unix and MS Windows NFS or Socket-based clients
Description:
A client/server fax gateway for Local and Wide Area Networks
(LANs/WANs). It supports TCP/IP connectivity between Unix and MS
Windows NFS or Socket-based clients. Users can manage and distribute
faxes or fax modems using Exchange Pro's Motif cross-platform graphical
user interface (GUI).
Product:
IM Editor, IM Browser
(Editor SEK 95000, Browser SEK 35000)
Company: Erisoft AB
(Ursviken Sweden)
Telephone: +46 910 51700
Fax: +46 910 35817
E-mail: imtools_info@sa.erisoft.se
URL: http://www.cdt.luth.se/erisofthome/products/imtools
Platforms: SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3
Description:
An interactive tool to browse models specified in GDMO/ASN.1. Graphic
visualization of the structures combined with search functions
allow navigation within the most complex specifications. The
IM Editor manages the whole process of Information Model editing since
it can handle complex documents mixing GDMO/ASN.1 with free text and
graphics.
Product:
PowerSuite
(Per site basis)
Company: FSA Corporation
(Calgary, Alberta CANADA)
Telephone: (403) 264-4822
Fax: (403) 264-0873
E-mail: info@fsa.ca
URL: http://www.fsa.ca
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, Sequent, and Motorola Unix
Description:
Secures the Unix system administrative environment by controlling and
auditing actions occurring in the root account, and in other
important administrative accounts on a Unix network. PowerLogin
secures the Unix login and password environment, by providing
fine-grained control of who can log in where, when, how, and under what
circumstances. NIS-compatible password aging is provided across all
platforms, and includes password quality controls and password
histories. PowerTelnet provides a secure communications channel
between two Unix machines for remote login purposes, using strong
encryption to maintain privacy and integrity of the data path. Sites
requiring off-site personnel to log in to sensitive machines will find
PowerTelnet resolves the issues surrounding communications over
insecure networks.
Product:
Sql Index Coverage Analyzer
Company: The Development Group for Advanced Technology
(Saddle River, NJ)
Telephone: (201) 825 9511
Fax: (201) 825 8151
E-mail: tdgat@nis.net
URL: http://www.nis.net/sqlpower
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM RS/6000, Windows, Windows NT.
Description:
Identifies potential performance problems prior to application
deployment. The product analyzes all dynamic SQL, stored procedure, and
trigger SQL statements for index coverage in the table selection, where
clause, join criteria, ORDER BY, and GROUP BY statements. All SQL
statements where clauses for select, insert, update, delete, and
sub-query operations reference tables or columns that are not either
completely or partially covered by a table index are analyzed.
Product:
Sql Power I/O Statistics Analyzer
Company: The Development Group for Advanced Technology
(Saddle River, NJ)
Telephone: (201) 825 9511
Fax: (201) 825 8151
E-mail: tdgat@nis.net
URL: http://www.nis.net/sqlpower
Platforms: Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, Windows NT.
Description:
The Sql Power I/O Statistics Analyzer pinpoints database performance
problems. It generates and analyzes the I/O and time statistics for all
dynamic SQL, stored procedure, and trigger SQL statements. An entire
database or any subset of data base objects can be analyzed on an
interactive or batch basis. I/O Statistics for SQL statements, stored
procedures, or triggers are presented in an I/O Statistics Browser and
then ranked by I/O or execution time. Time-consuming SQL statements,
database transaction or stored procedures which cause poor performance
are clearly identified. The I/O statistics for SQL statements are
ranked and graphed by table scans, logical reads (cached reads),
physical reads, writes, execution time, and elapsed time.
Product:
Sql Power Plan Analyzer
Company: The Development Group for Advanced Technology
(Saddle River, NJ)
Telephone: (201) 825 9511
Fax: (201) 825 8151
E-mail: tdgat@nis.net
URL: http://www.nis.net/sqlpower
Platforms: Solaris, Windows, Windows NT.
Description:
It generates and analyzes the show plan for all dynamic SQL, stored
procedure, and trigger SQL statements. It identifies time-consuming
table scans in SQL statement selection and join criteria. Table scans
of all table rows typically cause unacceptable response or run time. A
server, an entire database, or a subset of the database's dynamic SQL,
stored procedures, and triggers may be analyzed. The Sql Power Plan
Analyzer locates SQL statements in dynamic SQL, cursors, stored
procedures, and triggers, then generates the show plan and analyzes the
result.
Product:
U.T.A. Internet Accounting Package
($995 for basic version with 1,000 users to $19,995 for an unlimited user license.)
Company: RTD Systems & Networking, Inc.
(Tucson, AZ)
Telephone: (520) 318-0696
Fax: (520) 322-9755
E-mail: uta-sales@rtd.com
URL: http://www.rtd.com/software/uta.html
Platforms: BSDI 1.1, BSDI 2.0, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.4, and Linux 1.2.1
Description:
A new billing software package, (User Tracking & Accounting), that
allows Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to automate their customer
registration and billing system using a customizable Unix-based
software solution. The U.T.A. Internet Accounting Package has been
specifically designed for ISPs by an ISP.
Product:
Universal Desktop version 1.0
($260 until October 31, 1995; $345 for 1 workstation; $695 for 3; $1,995 for 10)
Company: Kovisoft, Inc.
(San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 985-7100
Fax: (408) 246-3127
E-mail: info@kovi.com
URL: http://www.kovi.com
Platforms: HP-UX 9.0.5, UnixWare 2, SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.4 (SPARC and x86)
Description:
A standard implementation of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). CDE,
a joint effort of Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, and Sunsoft, is
comprised of the best desktop technologies contributed by each company.
Universal Desktop is a standard implementation of CDE originally
licensed from Novell, Inc. which includes many software corrections and
will be ported to all Unix operating environments. Universal Desktop
provides a consistent desktop Graphical User Interface (GUI) for users
and Application Programming Interfaces (API) for software developers.
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