Sun FlashBack November 15th, 1994 ================================= See end for instructions for fetching full text of these stories. -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: 1080: Component-Ware Consortium Awarded TRP Funding 1081: CRISP GUI Text Editor With Colorization Support 1082: New X USER TOOLS book/CD from O'Reilly 1083: Control Data Systems Adds Lotus Notes Gateway 1084: GUI Advanced Operations Manager For Mail*Hub Administration 1085: DSSLIB - Fastest Mathematics Libraries 1086: IRI Releases UNIX COSORT Version 4.0 1087: Razor: Multi-Platform, Multi-Site Problem Tracking/CMS 1088: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 11 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1080: Component-Ware Consortium Awarded TRP Funding The Component-Ware Consortium (CWC), comprising six leading companies in Distributed Object Management, won $4 million in TRP funding to greater facilitate software reuse in the 90's. The Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) is a federal initiative to integrate the commercial and defense sectors through cooperative R&D and commercialization of critical high-technology. I-Kinetics will manage the CWC, whose membership includes Heuristicrats Research, IONA Technologies, NetLinks Technology, SunSoft, and Pratt & Whitney. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1081: CRISP GUI Text Editor With Colorization Support CRISP is a state of the art graphical text editor on various Unix and Windows platforms which is 100% compatible with BRIEF. The latest release of Crisp supports chroma/colorized coding for the following language in a true GUI fashion. Ada Awk Basic C C++ Cobol Crunch Fortran HTML Lisp Mail Pascal Perl Postscript Nroff / Troff Shell Sybase Transact SQL Tcl Tex Verilog Ingres Win4gl VHDL For information please send an email to: info@vital.com or call VITAL at +1 (214) 491-6907. Evaluation copies can be downloaded from ftp.uu.net, /vendor/vital directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1082: New X USER TOOLS book/CD from O'Reilly X USER TOOLS By Linda Mui & Valerie Quercia 1st Edition November 1994 856 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-019-8, $49.95 (CD-ROM included) We have just released this CD/book set filled with hundreds of tips, tricks, scripts, and programs for X Window System users. This collection of software and hard-won wisdom is an easy-to-use reference for getting more power and enjoyment from the X Window System. The emphasis in X USER TOOLS is on useful programs, culled from the network and contributed by X programmers all over the world. The CD-ROM contains source files for all and binary files for some of the programs (for a number of platforms, including Sun 4, Solaris, HP 700, Alpha/OSF, and RS6000/AIX), as well as the software for both emacs and tcl/tk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1083: Control Data Systems Adds Lotus Notes Gateway Control Data Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDAT) announced availability of a Lotus Notes gateway and companion directory synchronization software module for version 2.3 of Mail*Hub, the company's UNIX(r)-based messaging switch. The directory synchronization module is the first in the industry to link Lotus Notes directories to a global X.500 directory, simplifying E-mail exchange and providing Notes users with access to up-to-date, enterprise-wide information stored in the X.500 directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1084: GUI Advanced Operations Manager For Mail*Hub Administration Control Data Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDAT) announced availability of a graphical user interface (GUI)-based management application for version 2.3 of Mail*Hub, the company's UNIX(r)-based messaging switch. Called the Advanced Operations Manager, the product will provide Mail*Hub administrators with a simple and intuitive "front-end" for Mail*Hub's administrative tools, reducing Mail*Hub management time and allowing administrators who aren't proficient in UNIX to manage the messaging switch more easily. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1085: DSSLIB - Fastest Mathematics Libraries Users of over 10,000 engineering and scientific applications can now get a speed increase of up to 60% on single-CPU systems or run up to 30 times faster on multiprocessor machines simply by relinking those applications with DSSLIB(tm) from Dakota Scientific Software, Inc. DSSLIB is the fastest implementation of LAPACK, FFTPACK, VFFTPACK, LINPACK, and levels 1, 2, and 3 of BLAS available for the entire Sun software and hardware line. For example, on a SPARCstation 5 DSSLIB runs the standard LINPACK 1000x1000 benchmark 60% faster than libSci from CraySoft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1086: IRI Releases UNIX COSORT Version 4.0 Information Resources, Inc. is now shipping COSORT Version 4.0, its sort/merge/select/report software for client/server environments. The new COSORT is faster, includes a state-of-the-art JCL conversion utility, and provides more report writing options in its mainframe sort interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1087: Razor: Multi-Platform, Multi-Site Problem Tracking/CMS Tower Concepts, Inc. made two announcements concerning Razor, their problem tracking and configuration management package. o Geographically separated sites are now able to easily coordinate their activities, tasks, and priorities through Razor's GlobalTrack capability. Multiple project teams can organize engineering efforts through synchronized problem and issue tracking databases without requiring full TCP/IP connectivity between locations. GlobalTrack is presently shipping as part of the standard Razor release at no extra charge. o Tower has expanded their support of different platforms. Razor is now available for HP's and SGI machines. The package has already been avaialble for all combinations of SunOS/Solaris & OpenLook/Motif. The full documentation set, as well as executable versions of all supported platforms are available by anonymouse ftp. For more information please contact 'sales@tower.com'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1088: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 11 Vol. 3, No. 44 HPCwire is a for-fee electronic newsletter, "The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing". FREE INFORMATION FOR NON-SUBSCRIBERS! 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