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December 1995
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December 1995
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Product:
PCI Serial HIPPI NIC
- parallel interface network interface card
($2,000 [in volume])
Company: Essential Communications
(Albuquerque, NM)
Telephone: (505) 344-0080
Fax: (505) 344-0408
E-mail: marketing@esscom.com
URL: http://www.esscom.com
Platforms: PCI Bus Hardware
Description:
High Performance Parallel Interface (HPPI), a network interface card utilizing
EssCom's RoadrunnerPCI chip, allows PCI Bus Workstations, PCs, and
peripherals to use serial fiber networking. Onboard RISC processor
frees the host to function independently with minimal overhead.
Product:
PowerHub 4100
- multi-protocol fast ethernet switch for 100BaseT
(from $7,695)
Company: Alantec
(San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (800) ALANTEC, (408) 955-9000
Fax: (408) 955-9500
E-mail: powerhub@alantec.com
URL: http://www.alantec.com
Platforms: 100BaseT-TX, 100BaseT-FX, 10BaseT
Description:
Multi-protocol routing, virtual bridging, and Multilayer Virtual LAN. Includes 2MB Flash Memory, 3 RISC CPU Packet Engines, and support for up to 4000 MAC addresses per system. Also supports IP, Multicast IP, and either Novell IPX or Appletalk. Traffic segment mirroring, probe consolidation, and simplified troubleshooting. Comes with PowerSight, Alantec's graphical-based network management system (supporting Sun Net Manager, HP Openview, IBM NetView 6000).
Product:
ORBeline 2.0
- object request broker
(developer $4,999, runtime $250)
Company: Postmodern Computing
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 967-6169
Fax: (415) 967-6212
E-mail: suresh@pomoco.com
URL: http://www.pomoco.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 & 2, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital OSF/1, SGI IRIX, Unixware, Windows NT, Windows 95, Sco Unix. Supports OLE.
Description:
Common Object Request Broker with dynamic intelligent binding and
protocol selection, native Internet Interoperability ORB Protocol, OLE
support, multi-threading, shared memory transport services, built-in
fault-tolerance, dynamic tracking directory services, complete IDL
compiler, static and dynamic invocation interfaces, object activation
support, and complete administration tools.
Product:
Ovation
- presentation software
(free evaluation, $495 before Jan 15, $795 after Jan 15)
Company: Visual Engineering, Inc.
(San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (408) 452-0600
Fax: (408) 452-0632
E-mail: info@ve.com
URL: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/viseng/
Platforms: Sun, HP, IBM, SGI, DEC, Intel
Description:
Workstation presentation generation and management software with
advanced import and manipulation capabilities. Automatic generation of
hyperlinked multimedia presentations, speaker's notes, audience
handouts, WWW pages, and WWW presentations. Integrated slide-sorter,
network conferencing, cross-platform presentation players, and
screen-grab utility, Free download of software (call for evaluation
code) from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/viseng.
Product:
PMDF e-Mail Interconnect for Solaris
- replacement for sendmail
Company: Innosoft International, Inc.
(West Covina, CA)
Telephone: (800) 552-5444, (818) 919-3600
Fax: (818) 919-3614
E-mail: sales@innosoft.com
URL: http://www.innosoft.com
Platforms: Solaris
Description:
Basic Unix mail services plus capability to integrate a wide range of
other e-mail systems, including cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, Novell
GroupWise, any Novell-based MHS-based mailer, X.400 networks,
alphanumeric pagers, and more. PMDF also provides users with POP and
IMAP servers, a Pine user agent, and support for other user agents and
applications that work with sendmail.
Product:
Persistence 3.0
- object-to-relational application development system
Company: Persistence Software
(San Mateo, CA)
Telephone: (415) 341-7733
E-mail: info@persistence.com
URL: http://www.persistence.com
Platforms: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and AT&T GIS platforms; supports Sybase, Oracle, Informix, CA-Ingres databases
Description:
Creates object applications to link to relational databases. Uses object patterning techniques to reduce object application size. Comes with Object Builder for application object to database interface creation, and Object Server, an application server library that utilizes an
object data cache to validate object-to-relational integrity and optimize
application performance.
Product:
Razor
- configuration management and problem tracking
($495 for a single-user license, $42,000 for a site lisence)
Company: Tower Concepts, Inc
(New Hartford, NY)
Telephone: (315) 724-3540
Fax: (315) 724-3129
E-mail: www.sales@tower.com
URL: http://www.tower.com
Platforms: Solaris 1, 2, & x86, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIXDEC Alpha (OSF/1)
Description:
Flexible issue tracking system, version control, and build coordination
capabilities. Advanced GUI for change analysis and difference
browsing.
Product:
SDDGen
- automates support documentation for source code
($1,195)
Company: Trident Systems
(Fairfax, VA)
Telephone: (703) 691-7768
Fax: (703) 273-1012
E-mail: mike@tridsys.com
URL: http://tridsys.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 & 2, IRIX, HP-UX, Linux
Description:
Software design and documentation tool. Multi form document generation from schematics with variable design style and templating for design document. Multi-user capabilities supporting collaborative engineering while controlling configuration management.
Product:
Spider 1.5
- WWW/database application development
(30-day trial version, then from $1,495)
Company: Spider Technologies
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (415) 969-6665
Fax: (415) 969-6883
E-mail: diana@w3spider.com
URL: http://www.w3spider.com
Platforms: OS: Solaris 2.3, SGI IRIX 5.3, HP-UX 9.05. HTTP servers: Netscape Server API, any CGI supporting WWW server. Databases: Informix 6.0 and higher, Sybase 10, Oracle 7. User Interface: HTML, Java.
Description:
Web/database application solution with GUI development of HTML
output fields and zones, customizable output, error handling and
security options, full database, SQL, and HTML viewers and editors with
conditional and nested output capabilities. Fully integrated with
Netscape API.
Product:
USoft Benchmark
- testing for apps. created with USoft developer
($4,000 per developer)
Company: Usoft
(Brisbane, CA)
Telephone: (215) 986-5098
E-mail: holzmans@po7.bb.unisys.com
URL: http://www.unisys.com
Platforms: most
Description:
Testing automation for Developer enterprise application development
environment. Workflow analysis on a point-by-point basis, runtime
analysis or database access calls to identify performance bottlenecks,
and optimization of database searching with consistency and integrity
checking against predefined rules.
Product:
USoft OnLine Series
- middleware for distributed computing
(from $5,000 to $100,000)
Company: Usoft
(Brisbane, CA)
Telephone: (415) 875-3381
E-mail: sarno@usoft.com
URL: http://www.unisys.com
Platforms: most
Description:
Family of middleware products supporting enterprise-ready distributed
transaction processing solutions. Includes USoft OnLine for TUXEDO.
Iterative rapid application development software tools. Allows
coordinated updates of message queues and databases. Includes a set of
gateway products supporting interoperability with enterprise server
transaction processing environments.
Product:
USoft Report Series
- Object-Oriented Report Writer for Server/Client Apps
(End-User Workbench $599, Report Server from $1500, Administrator Desktop $599, Developer Workbench $1,999, End-User Desktop $199)
Company: Usoft
(Brisbane, CA)
Telephone: (415) 875-3381
E-mail: sarno@usoft.com
URL: http://www.unisys.com
Platforms: most
Description:
Object-oriented report writer for server/client applications. Bridges
the gap between powerful but complex language-based reporting software
used by developers and simple end-user report writers featuring little
flexibility and robustness. Defines reusable components for report
generation to allow customization of output and queries.
Product:
Webcall
- telephone callback server interface for WWW
Company: Spanlink & AT&T
(Atlanta, GA)
Telephone: (800) 452-8349 x 8147, (612) 362-8000
E-mail: kristen.jacobsen@spanlink.com
URL: http://www.spanlink.com
Platforms: Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, Unisys. AT&T Definity, AT&T INTUITY CONVERSANT
Description:
Integrates telephony and Internet access to make services more
accessible, flexible, efficient, and secure. Upon request, an ExtraAgent
will call a customer back on the supplied telephone number and either
connect a speech-synthesis-and-recognition engine to assist the
customer or wait in queue for the user until a representative is
available to assist the customer.
Product:
Civilizing Cyberspace
- Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway
($26.85)
Product:
Zen and the Art of the Internet
- A Beginner's guide, Fourth Edition
($23.95)
Company: Prentice Hall
(Upper Saddle River, NJ)
Telephone: (800) 947-7700, (515) 284-6751
Fax: (515) 284-2607
E-mail: orders@prenhall.com
URL: http://www.prenhall.com
Description:
ISBN: 0-13-452914-6, 240 pages, paperback, author: Brendan P. Kehoe.
Beginners guide to the internet, including WWW references (with
pull-out card), child security, mail, netiquette, file transfers,
Usenet, commercial services, internet history, terminology, quickly
finding resources, locating services, and country codes.
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