FlashBack November 18th, 1994 ******************************** Contents: 1089: IDE's Leading OO Environment Ready For Corporate IS 1090: Sbus Lossless Compression Accelerator 1091: PowerBroker 1.1 now available 1092: MSD Consulting Releases StatusLine V1.2 1093: SPARC-FLASH 11/94: Table of Contents 1094: Visual SCCS for Sun 1095: Artecon State-Of-The-Art RAID: LynxRAID 1096: Artecon Announces FileTrek Version 2.0 How to request articles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1089: IDE's Leading OO Environment Ready For Corporate IS Interactive Development Environments (IDE) introduced the second generation of its highly successful StP/OMT object oriented (OO) analysis, design, and code generation toolset. This product has been significantly enhanced to meet the needs of IS organizations transitioning to large-scale, enterprise-wide object oriented (OO) software development. Since its introduction last year, StP/OMT has quickly established a dominant market position among all tools automating OO methodologies, outselling its nearest competition two to one. StP/OMT 2.0, available immediately, provides support for business process modeling through Jacobson Use Cases, and can now automatically generate both Smalltalk and Ada source code as well as C++. Continuing to address the evolution and convergence of OO methods, IDE also announces its full support for the Booch methodology: StP/Booch will be available January 31, 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1090: Sbus Lossless Compression Accelerator Ceram Incorporated announces the ICEBoard, the first lossless compression accelerator card for Sun SPARCstations and servers based upon IBM's Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (ALDC) technology. The card provides performance improvements of up to 20x over software based compression techniques. Drivers for Programmed Logic's DTFS Compressed FIle System are available, as well as a developers kit for OEMs who wish to incorporate high speed lossless data compression in their applications. No-charge evaluations units are available ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1091: PowerBroker 1.1 now available PowerBroker lets UNIX sites selectively share the power of root without disclosing root's password. root sessions can be logged, replayed, and queried. A central policy specification controls who can do what, where, when, as root on a whole network. PowerBroker encrypts a session's network traffic to guard against eavesdropping of sys-admin actions. Version 1.1 now includes an expanded policy language that allows call-outs to site-specific programs such as smart card readers. Also, logging efficiency and log queries have been optimized to reduce system overhead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1092: MSD Consulting Releases StatusLine V1.2 MSD enables Sun SPARCstation users to easily and immediately communicate with all workstations on the network with StatusLine. A powerful new communications utility that allows users to broadcast information to multiple workstations or a selected group on the network. StatusLine is window-based application which enables users to distribute short "status" messages, five text lines or less, to other StatusLine users on a network. StatusLine is a client-server software product based upon standard network (Ethernet and TCP/IP) protocols and a standard windowing (X-windows) system, making it flexible and easily expandable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1093: SPARC-FLASH 11/94: Table of Contents The following is the table of contents for SPARC-FLASH, the monthly email bulletin from SPARC International. If you would like to receive a free subscription to SPARC-FLASH, please send your full name, title, company and email address to sparc-flash-request@sparc.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1094: Visual SCCS for Sun Visual SCCS is a source code configuration management tool based on the established SCCS and RCS file formats. It provides: o 100% compatibility with SCCS and RCS libraries. It will draw a picture of your old libraries if needed. o Version control with named baselines. o Access control with delta states and user groups. o Works with binary and text files (RCS libraries only). o Library partitioning available. o Compliant with the Motif style guide. o Drag-and-Drop compatible with other Motif-based application, even across machine boundaries. o Interfaces to make. o What you see is what I see capabilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1095: Artecon State-Of-The-Art RAID: LynxRAID Artecon announced a full line of rackmount RAID mass storage subsystems that significantly extends the definition of high availability and advances the state-of-the-art in RAID technology. Known as LynxRAID, the new mass storage configurations feature hot plug, front removable power supplies, removable fans and loadsharing RAID controllers for complete redundancy and failover automation. Configurations range from 16GB to 232GB housed in a single rack enclosure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1096: Artecon Announces FileTrek Version 2.0 Artecon Announces the release of FileTrek Hierarchical Storage Management Systems (HSM) Version 2.0 for Sun SPARC and HP 9000 platforms. FileTrek provides a complete suite of HSM capabilities including user-transparent file migration, automatic restoration, archiving, system backup and more for the heterogeneous computer environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information This article contains general information about the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" I produced "The Florida SunFlash" for nearly six years. "SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal. 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