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October 1995
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Product:
DW3300 Channel Gateway mainframe block multiplexer channel interface
($13,000)
Company: Data/Ware Development, Inc.
(San Diego, CA)
Telephone: (800) 335 4444 x226 or (619) 453 7774 x226
Fax: (619) 453 2794
E-mail: glenn@dwdi.com
URL: http://www.dwdi.com
Platforms: Solaris 2, SPARC-compatible
Description:
A mainframe block-multiplexer channel interface for a SPARC-compatible.
Allows a Sun to connect directly to a mainframe and appear as multiple
devices at once.
Product:
DrawingSlate II
cordless graphics tablet for Suns
(from $280)
Company: Calcomp
(Anaheim, CA)
Telephone: (800) 932-1212, (714) 821-2000
Fax: (714) 821-2832
Platforms: Sun, Intel compatibles, and Macintosh
Description:
A family of thin, low-cost, lightweight, cordless graphics tablets.
It has two modes of use: tablet and mouse. Users have a choice of
pointing devices, either a cordless electronic pen (click-tip or
pressure-sensitive) or a cordless 4- or 16-button cursor.
DrawingSlate II is available for all Suns via a serial port.
Product:
MultYcon-SUN
console management system
(From $498)
Company: Elsner Technologies Company
(Fort Worth, TX)
Telephone: (800) 243-2228 or (817) 626-4110
Fax: (817) 626-5330
E-mail: 75457.1377@compuserve.com
Platforms: Supports mixed configurations in a base unit, including any combination of PCs, Sun, SGI, RS/6000, AS/400, DEC Alpha and other mini and mainframe systems
Description:
The MultYcon-SUN Console Management System uses a centralized
administration console to monitor all servers on a network. It supports
all models of Sun servers and workstations. Using this system, IS
professionals may monitor, configure and maintain up to 1,024
computers. As a hardware-based solution, MultYcon is OS-independent and
uses standard I/O connections.
Product:
Eloquence
text-to-speech software
Company: Eloquent Technology, Inc.
(Ithaca, NY)
Telephone: (607) 266-7025
Fax: (607) 266-7030
E-mail: eti@plab.dmll.cornell.edu
Platforms: SPARCstations, RS/6000, SGI; Windows-based PCs (486/25 and above)
Description:
Text-to-speech software that produces "human-like" speech. Input text
can be entered in standard English, including abbreviations and
phonetic symbols. Eloquence handles a variety of pronunciations
including proper names, acronyms, abbreviations, and fractions. It has
an annotation scheme that allows users to mimic many human emotions
including custom voices (e.g., male, female, child), voice quality
(e.g., degree of hoarseness, pitch level), and intonational effects
(e.g., emphasis, excitement, boredom).
Product:
FleXprint and FleXimage PostScript print server software
(FleXprint - from $695, FleXimage - $195)
Company: AutoGraph International, Inc.
Telephone: (408) 436-7227
Fax: (408) 436-7255
E-mail: sales@augrin.com
Platforms: Unix
Description:
FleXprint 1.0 is printing software designed to be compatible with
current and future Adobe PostScript level-2 printers. The Motif-based
GUI gives the user control of printer features including print quality,
tray selection and color correction. FleXimage exchanges image file
formats between various applications and saves screen captures in a
variety of supported formats.
Product:
GEORGE
automatic documentation tool
($5,000 for a single Unix workstation; $7,500 for a 5-pack; $1,500 for add-on licenses)
Company: UniPress Software, Inc.
(Edison, NJ)
Telephone: (908) 287-2100
Fax: (908) 287-4929
E-mail: info@unipress.com
URL: http://www.unipress.com/
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, HP 9000 700/800
Description:
Creates internals documentation from users' source code (C and C++)
into FrameMaker, Interleaf, HTML, and MS Word RTF formats. Documents
created by GEORGE are automatically hypertexted, allowing direct
on-line access to documentation and source code with navigation across
the code base. Automatic indexing of the code ensures accurate listings
of the documentation, on-line or printed, via a mix of textual and/or
graphical representations. GEORGE's automatic output can be
supplemented by user text, graphic, and table information. In addition,
it merges prior user additions into new documents, reporting any
differences or problems to the user.
Product:
MLAB
mathematical and statistical modeling
($395 for PC (DOS), Macintosh (Motorola, PowerPC), NeXTStep (Motorola, Intel, HP); $495 for Sun SPARC (Solaris 1), Silicon Graphics, RS/6000, DEC Alpha (OSF/1).)
Company: Civilized Software, Inc.
(Bethesda, MD)
Telephone: (301) 652-4714
Fax: (301) 656-1069
E-mail: csi@civilized.com
URL: http://www.civilized.com
Platforms: Unix versions for SPARC, NeXTStep (Motorola, Intel, HP), RS/6000, DEC Alpha, SGI, and Convex. PC and Macintosh
Description:
MLAB (Modeling LABoratory) is an interactive mathematical and
statistical modeling program. It includes curve-fitting, differential
equations, statistics, and graphics. Civilized Software says the
software provides more than 30 command types and more than 400 built-in
functions from the areas of elementary mathematics, transcendental
functions, probability and statics, linear algebra, optimization,
cluster analysis, combinatorics, numeric input/output, and graphics. A
100-day trial version costs $100.
Product:
Patrol 3.0
systems management and monitoring
Company: BMC Software, Inc.
(Houston, TX)
Telephone: (800) 841-2031 (713) 918-8800
Fax: (713) 918-8000
E-mail: jim_mccomas@bmc.com
URL: http://www.bmc.com
Platforms: Solaris, Solaris X86, AIX, Bull, DG, HP-UX, ICL, NCR, Olivetti, OpenVMS, OSF, OS/2, Pyramid, SCO Unix, Siemens, Sequent, SGI, UnixWare
Description:
Patrol 3.0 supports centralized, active monitoring, and automated
management for heterogeneous applications, databases, and underlying
resources. Patrol 3.0 allegedly scales to more than 1,000 servers, and
is interoperable with leading system and network management frameworks,
and integrates with help desk systems to provide comprehensive
management and monitoring for any sized client/server environment.
Product:
SeOS
Security for open systems
($1,000 per server, $150 per user, volume discounts)
Company: Memco Software Inc.
(New York, NY)
Telephone: (800) 862-2602, (212) 286-8820
Fax: fax 212/286-9150
E-mail: info@memco.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, AIX, HP-UX
Description:
SeOS provides Unix security by addressing Unix's loopholes and
controlling "who can do what, and when" in Unix. SeOS restricts the
superuser and protects resources such as userIDs, servers, processes,
login's, files, execution of privileged programs, and network
connections from unauthorized access. SeOS provides logging
and auditing.
Product:
Secure WebServer 1.1
Secure HTTP server
($4,995)
Company: Open Market
(Cambridge, MA)
Telephone: (617) 621-9500
Fax: (617) 621-1703
URL: http://www.openmarket.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, AIX, BSD/386, Digital Unix, HP-UX, Irix
Description:
Unifies the two approaches (S-HTTP and SSL) for security on the World
Wide Web. It allegedly supports requests from any of the 800 browser
variants that communicate using HTTP, Secure-HTTP or SSL. The Secure
WebServer supports all three simultaneously. It uses a multi-threaded
architecture designed to support thousands of simultaneous requests.
Product:
SmartSockets
Message-oriented middleware toolkit for interprocess communication (IPC)
Company: Talarian Corp.
(Mountain View CA)
Telephone: (415) 965-8050
Fax: (415) 965-9077
E-mail: info@talarian.com
URL: http://www.mainstreet.net/talarian
Platforms: Unix, VMS, Windows, Windows NT
Description:
A application development toolkit that enables processes to communicate
across different operating system platforms through the use of
messages. SmartSockets takes care of network interfaces, guarantees
delivery of messages, handles communication protocols, and deals with
recovery after system/network problems.
Product:
TotalNET Administration Services (TNAS)
network management and administration
Company: Syntax
(Federal Way, WA)
Telephone: (208) 838-2626
Fax: (206) 838-9836
Platforms: Solaris for SPARC and x86, IBM AIX
Description:
TNAS is a Unix-based tool that gives IS administrators
access to configuration and status of an entire network.
Its functions include administration of users, passwords,
data access rights, configuration data, and replication.
Product:
VUFlex 2000
retrieval tool for document management systems
($5,990)
Company: Audre Recognition Systems Inc.
(San Diego, CA)
Telephone: (619) 451-2260
Fax: (619) 451-0267
Platforms: Sun or HP workstations; Pentium PCs with Solaris x86
Description:
Provides database retrieval of engineering drawings, electrical
schematics, maps, and technical publications. VUFlex automatically
recognizes text on documents of any size and generates an ASCII file to
enable flexible, full text searches by electronic document management
systems. Other features include overnight batch processing, automatic
indexing, and automatic raster cleanup.
Product:
WabiServer
Solaris server for Microsoft Windows applications
($1,000 for server license, $1,000 for 10 clients)
Company: SunSoft
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (800) SUNSOFT, (512) 434-1511
Fax: (415) 961-6070
E-mail: info@sun.com
FlashBack: 82.10
URL: http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/Products/PC-Integration-products
Platforms: Solaris SPARC and x86
Description:
A server implementation of Wabi, a Windows-to-Unix translator. Gives
multiple simultaneous users functionality of Wabi. Low-end SPARC
systems and X terminals, previously unsupported by Wabi, can now act as
full clients in a server implementation to run Microsoft Office, Lotus
SmartSuite, and other Microsoft Windows applications. WabiServer
provides MIS managers with more centralized management of their
Microsoft Windows applications within the Solaris environment.
Product:
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