Sun FlashBack November 26th, 1994 ********************************* Contents: 1116: Professional Mailing Software Systems from Postalsoft 1117: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 23 1118: Microport Virtual Sales/Training Conferencing System 1119: IONA Releases Orbix(r) Version 1.3 1120: PARTEK: Integrated Data Analysis 1121: Generic Logic Toolkit (GLG Widgets) for X and Motif 1122: Mecklermedia Internet-related info 1123: ORB Delivers UNIX DBs As OLE Objects 1124: PageMe: Alphanumeric Paging Software 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index How to send for articles, unsubscribe etc. PING Census Continues! I would like each subscriber to send me just 1 message with the word PING in the subject line. My goal is to determine how many subscribers there are. So, if you have not sent me a PING message, please send mail to flash@flashback.com. Should take but a few seconds! I received about 3,000 replies within the first 48 hours. I know that there are many more subscribers out there! Thanks again! -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1116: Professional Mailing Software Systems from Postalsoft In today's business environment, you have a lot of choices to make when it comes to your mailing, list management, and document processing operations. You have to choose products that will best meet your needs, increase your productivity, and make you more profitable. That's why so many organizations have chosen high performance software systems from Postalsoft to help ease the strain these complex operations put on their organizations. Postalsoft products help take you to a new level of automation by streamlining your internal mail and list management processing, and helping you attain automation incentives offered by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). o Assign ZIP, ZIP+4, and Carrier Route Information o Standardize and Correct Addresses; Presort First, Second, Third and Fourth Class: Bound Printed Matter Mail o Manifest First, Third, and Fourth Class:Bound Printed Matter Mail o Generate Facsimiles of U.S. Postal Service Required Reports o Palletize Second, Third, and Fourth Class Bound Printed Matter Mail o Create Custom Merge/Purge Processes Select Multiple-Occurrence Records o Take Advantage of List Suppression Capabilities o Find Multi-Buyer Status During List Management o Print Delivery-Point Postnet Barcodes on Envelopes and Flat Mail o Power Your Inkjet Printing Capabilities o Presort and Barcode Print Image Forms o And Much More! (If you contact Postalsoft, please tell them you read about them in "The Sun FlashBack, article #1116". -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1117: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 23 Looking for a gift for that office mate who has everything? Want to show your boss how bright and resourceful you are? Then give the gift of HPCwire!! This year, you can shop via email without ever leaving your desk. HPCwire is pleased to announce our second annual 50% off Holiday Subscription Special: A one year subscription to HPCwire for the first person at your site will set you back only $97. If there are already subscribers at your site (like, possibly... YOU), then each additional gift subscription is $49. For full details and order forms, email . HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM HPCwire!!!! FREE INFORMATION FOR NON-SUBSCRIBERS! This week, select 9022 for your bonus item: 9022) Two Faces of New Congress Will Weigh Future of HPCC and NII ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1118: Microport Virtual Sales/Training Conferencing System Interactive High Speed Application Sharing Over Standard Phone Line Conference Link, available from Microport Systems, allows Sun users to control workstations remotely and share high-speed graphics instantaneously using a standard telephone line. Workstation users are not restricted to network connectivity or dedicated high band-width phone lines in order to efficiently and rapidly share graphically intense applications. In addition to application sharing, users can converse on the same line using audio devices included with the system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1119: IONA Releases Orbix(r) Version 1.3 Orbix Upgrade Enhances Performance and Increases Platform Spread IONA Technologies announced the latest version of its Orbix(r) Object Request Broker (ORB) software. Orbix Version 1.3 includes significant improvements in performance and adds five new operating systems to the already comprehensive Orbix cross platform coverage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1120: PARTEK: Integrated Data Analysis PARTEK is a powerful, integrated environment for visual and quantitative data analysis and pattern recognition. Drawing from a wide variety of disciplines including Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, and Statistics, PARTEK integrates data analysis and modeling tools into an easy to use "point and click" system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1121: Generic Logic Toolkit (GLG Widgets) for X and Motif Generic Logic, Inc. has announced its GLG Widgets product - a low-cost modular 2D and 3D dynamic graphical widget solution for X and Motif. All GLG Widgets are based on the Generic Logic Toolkit - an Object Oriented Interactive Graphical Environment which enables a software developer to create custom widgets interactively from the supplied templates using the GLG Graphical Editor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1122: Mecklermedia Internet-related info This article describes Internet-related material from Mecklermedia: o Periodicals o Internet World o Internet Research o Computers in Libraries o Books o On Internet 94: an International Guide to Electronic Journals o Directory of Directories on the Internet o Electronic Style: a Guide to Citing Electronic Information o From A to Z39.50: a Networking Primer o Pocket Guides to the Internet o Internet Access Providers: an International Resource Directory o Internet Primer for Information Professionals o WAIS and Gopher Servers: a Guide for Internet Users o The Internet Library: Case Studies of Library Internet Management and Use o OPAC Directory 1994 o Libraries and the Internet/NREn o Conferences o Fall Internet World '94 and Document Delivery World '94 For sample issues of Internet World, Internet Research, or Computers in Libraries, send complete mailing address to info@mecklermedia.com or call Michael Hicks at 1-203-226-6967, ext. 243, for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1123: ORB Delivers UNIX DBs As OLE Objects I-Kinetics, Inc. announced that Release 3 of its I-Bridge(R) Object Request Broker (ORB) is the first ORB that delivers UNIX applications, databases, services, utilities, and files as OLE objects to Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) operating system- based applications, the first to include object adapters to popular databases, and the first to include high level access services that are identical for different sources. The I-Bridge ORB is optimized for retrieving data from various UNIX data resources. The ORB is distributed with one part executing on Windows providing services to Windows-based applications, and a second part executing on a UNIX host along with object adapters to different types of data sources. The ObjectPump(R) is a general purpose adapter for accessing UNIX applications, services, utilities, and files and re-directs their output to the requesting Windows-based application. Specialized object adapters are available for Ingres(R), Oracle(R) and Sybase(R). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1124: PageMe: Alphanumeric Paging Software PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS, Inc announced the availability of the PAGEME(tm) alphanumeric paging solution for Sun workstations. PAGEME is the first commercial product to provide an enterprise-wide alphanumeric paging capability for unix workstation networks. Targeted at organizations that require a client-server solution, PageMe provides exceptional robustness to insure that messages are delivered efficiently and without fail. Priced at $2195, the product is shipping now for SunOS 4.1.X and Solaris 2.X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. When "SunFlash" grew to about 100 articles per month, 140,000+ subscribers and 30,000+ article requests per month I decided that it was time to make some changes. 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