---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 64 #81 April 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64.81 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (9 articles, 49 Kb, 1031 lines - about 16 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 64.72 6 138 Grapic View Of Information Warehouse 64.73 6 109 Iona, Isis To Deliver Orbix on Isis 64.74 5 91 IONA Releases Orbix Version 1.2 64.75 7 170 ScreenPlay 2.1 MultiMedia Software 64.76 9 179 Port Code bewteen UNIX and NT 64.77 3 72 ShowCASE implements Booch Method 64.78 7 146 Integration with Oracle and UNIFACE 64.79 3 61 NP-1600 Photographic Network Printer 64.80 3 65 SecurePrint for Solaris 2.x Totals: 49 1031 How To Request An Article - Example ----------------------------------- %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 ^D % Place the list articles numbers on the same line as the Subject keyword. Separate article numbers with a space (e.g 63.39 63.40). If Articles Don't Arrive After a Reasonable Time ------------------------------------------------ I get a number of requests that come from sites that do not have their mail system set up properly. Some requests have their return path or the From: lines mangled as they travel through the net. If you suspect that your requested article is not getting to you because of an email address problem, then resubmit and add the keyword "email-to" in the body of the message: %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 email-to foo%bar@name.domain ^D % Replace foo%bar@name.domain with your email address. -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 64.72 IRE Delivers Grapic View Of Your Information Warehouse From: john@mss.com (John R. Tersigni - Managing Principal) Mercantile Software Systems' mission is to continue to provide the next generation decision support technology platform which enables users to access mission critical business information at unprecedented rates of speed and functionality, creating the gateway to the Information Warehouse of the 90s and beyond. The Information Retrieval Engine (IRE) is designed to address the needs of executives and managers who require on-line systems that provide extremely fast response times to complex queries over a huge base of information. (138 lines) 64.73 Iona And Isis To Deliver Orbix on Isis From: Colin Newman Agreement will deliver advanced object group technology for reliable distributed object-oriented application development. Isis Distributed Systems and IONA Technologies of Dublin, Ireland announced plans to integrate IONA's Orbix object request broker with Isis reliable distributed computing (RDC) technology. Orbix+Isis will be the world's first reliable, object-oriented (OO) programming environment for the development of business critical applications in a distributed environment. (109 lines) 64.74 IONA Releases Orbix Version 1.2 IONA Technologies announced the latest version of its Orbix object request broker (ORB) software today. Orbix Version 1.2 includes an Object Loader function for the first time, as well as an upgraded Interface Repository, a new approach to filtering, and more code examples to guide programmers. (91 lines) 64.75 ScreenPlay 2.1 MultiMedia Software From info@rad.com RAD Technologies announces shipment of a major release of the company`s ScreenPlay multimedia video and presentation software for Sun, IBM PowerPC, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett-Packard workstations. Release 2.1 is a major update with advanced new editing and recording features, and now also enables playback on Microsoft Windows an Apple Macintosh platforms. (170 lines) 64.76 NuTCRACKER: Port Code bewteen UNIX and Win32 subsystem of NT From: Pat Higbie DataFocus Incorporated, Fairfax, Virginia, introduced NuTCRACKER, a complete, integrated product family for developers who want to port their UNIX applications to the Win32 subsystem of Windows NT(TM). (Another way to look at it: If you must write apps that will run under NT, then write them in such a way that they will run under UNIX or NT with just a recompile. - johnj) (179 lines) 64.77 ShowCASE implements Booch Method From: de5@de5.CTD.ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) ShowCASE is a multi-user software engineering tool that supports the Booch method of object-oriented design. The product allows developers to create models of their systems using graphical tools that understand the semantics of the Booch methodology. C++ code can be generated auto- matically from these models. ShowCASE is one of the first tools of its kind to operate on heterogeneous networks of PC, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations. (72 lines) 64.78 Westmount Announces Integration with Oracle and UNIFACE. From: tike@wmt.nl (Tineke Keuzenkamp) Westmount provides the Westmount part of the bridge between Westmount I-CASE and UNIFACE 4GL. The bridge is based on the Westmount I-CASE Yourdon product for Analysis and Global Design. UNIFACE is used to perform the Implementation. The bridge closes the gab between the Westmount and the UNIFACE environment and transfers the graphical Global Design out of the Westmount environment into the Conceptual Schema of the UNIFACE environment. The bridge delivers extensive synchronisation facilities between the Graphical Global Design and the Conceptual Schema. (146 lines) 64.79 Codonics Announces NP-1600 Photographic Network Printer From: cmm@CODONICS.COM (Christina Theodore (Magalotti)) Codonics, Inc. announces the introduction of the Codonics NP-1600 Photographic Network Printer, a new 300 DPI state-of-the-art color and monochrome network printer specifically designed to work with any homogeneous or heterogeneous TCP/IP or EtherTalk based network. Utilizing dye-sublimation technology with 16.7 million simultaneously printable colors, the Codonics NP-1600 is capable of producing continuous tone prints. (61 lines) 64.80 SecurePrint for Solaris 2.x From: Rodney Lewis Labelling printed output and controlling access to printers has always been a challenge to installations processing classified, proprietary, or sensitive information. Various approaches have been used over the years. Before SecurePrint the available options were labor intensive, inflexible and likely to produce inconsistent or erroneous labelling. 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