New products for the week of December 25 By John J. McLaughlin, FlashBack, Inc.

December  1995

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Hardware

• Models S440 & S450 Array storage subsystems SCSI RAID systems
• Xcelerator caching I/O controller

Software

• ComponentWare Database Component CORBA and Windows OLE access to UNIX databases
• EquationBuilder NeXTStep equation editor
• OpenWrite 2.0 NeXTStep word processing
• TeraFile 64-bit file access

Service

• Java-SIG Sun User Group Special Interest Group

Hardware

• Standard 5 1/4" full-height form factor fits into a wide range of removable disk enclosures. SEEK cabinet options include rack-mount, pedestal, and tower configurations with "hot swap" disk shuttles, power supplies and fans.
• Supports concurrent RAID 0, RAID 3, or RAID 5 operation with up to 35 standard SCSI disk drives per controller.

• Up to 128 MB of standard SIMM-based cache memory.

• Supports "Hot Spare" disks.
• Battery-backed system status and data cache.

Product: Xcelerator - caching I/O Controller
Company: SEEK Systems, Inc (Kirkland, WA)
Telephone: (800) 790-SEEK, (206) 822-7400
Fax: (206) 822-3898
Platforms: Sun, Wang, DEC, HP, IBM, Unisys, and other Unix
Description: This external SCSI device, a write back caching RAM disk/Controller, is designed to provide improved I/O performance -- up to 2000 I/O's per second. The Xcelerator can be configured with or without RAID. It offers large database systems, imaging and graphics intensive applications, networks, and other 'mission critical' applications a way to achieve the best performance, high availability, and fault tolerance. Features include:

• 32 MB to 1GB of solid state memory.
• SEEK Caching algorithm.
• 12 Fast & Wide SCSI Channels.
• integrated UPS system and error handling.

Software

Product: EquationBuilder - NEXTSTEP equation editor ($119 ($79 with OpenWrite 2.0) Site licenses are available.)
Company: Lighthouse Design, Ltd. (San Mateo, CA)
Telephone: (800) 366-2279, (415) 570-7736
E-mail: info@lighthouse.com
URL: http://www.lighthouse.com
Platforms: SPARC, Intel, Motorola, and PA-RISC versions of NeXTStep 3.0
Description: An equation editor for all versions of the object-oriented NeXTStep environment. Dynamic, "on the fly" recomposition, is designed to assure WYSIWIG typographic consistency and professional quality results. Users construct mathematical expressions with a point and click, choosing from palettes of common symbolic elements, such as fractions, matrices, and delimiters. EquationBuilder automatically follows standard professional typesetting rules. Other features include Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file format, translation to the TeX, support for Open Object Embedding (OOE), support for NEXTSTEP Object Links, filter services, and universal drag-and-drop.

Product: OpenWrite 2.0 - NEXTSTEP word processing ($495. Site licenses are available.)
Company: Lighthouse Design, Ltd. (San Mateo, CA)
Telephone: (800) 366-2279, (415) 570-7736
E-mail: info@lighthouse.com
URL: http://www.lighthouse.com
Platforms: SPARC, Intel, Motorola, and PA-RISC versions of NEXTSTEP 3.0
Description: OpenWrite 2.0 is compatible with key PC applications from Microsoft, WordPerfect, Frame, and Lotus. Includes an API. OpenWrite is a word processor with a variety of basic and advanced functions. Features include:

• Multiple-column formatting.
• Headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes.
• Hierarchical paragraph styles.
• Support for Open Object Embedding (OOE).
• Unlimited undo, kerning, and line-spacing control.
• Support for multi-file books.
• Indexing and table of contents generation.
• Customizable paragraph numbering and bullet styles.
• Redline text for easy document editing.
• Extensive HTML support.

Product: TeraFile - 64-bit file access (server license: $2995. client license: $595)
Company: Programmed Logic Corporation (PLC) (Somerset, NJ)
Telephone: (908) 302-0090
Fax: (908) 302-1903
E-mail: sales@plc.com
Platforms: SVR4 Application Binary Interface
Description: Provides 64-bit file access for existing 32-bit UNIX operating systems. Files can grow beyond the limitations of the underlying operating system and can be extended in place, without restructuring the file-system partition. Users can now utilize 64-bit files which are actually composed of an unlimited number of separate 32-bit physical extensions, which can be located anywhere on the network. New applications that take advantage of TeraFile's 64-bit file sizes should find that most existing 32-bit system calls will work without modification. Applications requiring finer control of managed files with 64-bit file offsets can use the included 64-bit API library. TeraFile conforms to the SVR4 Virtual File System interface.

Service

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