---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Product Announcements SunFLASH Vol 45 #36 September 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurum: Customer Management Solution Digital Tools Ports AutoPLAN To Solaris 2.0 for Intel Rapid Application Development Environment Level 2 PostScript for Sun users NetMetrix Trend Analysis and Network Configurator SayIt! Product Announcement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Aurum: Customer Management Solution From: debbie@aurum.com (Debbie Murray) Phone: (408) 562-6370 and ask for ******************************************************************************** AURUM NEWS FLASH ******************************************************************************** Aurum & Sybase Provide Barra with a Customer Management Solution Barra, a software developer for installed to automate their bug track- mutual fund management, has made ing system for their engineering a decision to use Aurum's CRP group. Barra chose to work with applications with Sybase's RDBMS Aurum based on the ability to provide on a Sun Sparc workstation. an integrated customized solution that would run seamlessly with the Aurum's telemarketing application, Sybase database. TeleTrak will provide an integrated system to track and trace their pros- Aurum's TeleTrak replaced an internally pects, customers and maintanence developed system and QualityTrak was a renewals. Aurum's quality management new application for Barra's engineering application QualityTrak was department. Aurum & Sun win Versant Business Versant, an object-oriented database organization, Telemarketing, Field- company based in California had made Sales and Quality Management and will the decision to use Aurum's Customer be integrated allowing these depart- Resource Planning (CRP) applications ments to share customer data. to automate the management of their customer information enterprise wide. By automating their current manual system with Aurum's TeleTrak, Versant will run Aurum's CRP applica- SalesTrak, & SupportTrak, Versant tions with Unify's database, Accell on will have real-time access to their a Sun Sparc Workstation with over 50 customer information, in addition to users accessing the system. Aurum's the added performance the Sun work- applications will reside in three station will provide. different departments within their Aurum's CRP Applications Available Today TeleTrak - telemarketing/telesales SupportTrak - customer support/helpdesk SalesTrak - field sales support QualityTrak - quality management/bug tracking Aurum Product Highlights Integrated or Stand-Alone Database Independent Customizable Multiple User Interface Support Multi-Platform Support Interface with ACD Technology Additional Aurum Customers Hewlett Packard Sequent Computer Trimble Navigation Aspect Telecom American Airlines Wyse Technology Conner Peripherals Sony Microsystems Clarity Software DHL Worldwide Sun Microsystems IBM *For more information on Aurum products please call (408) 562-6370 and ask for the representative in your area.* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Digital Tools Ports AutoPLAN To Solaris 2.0 for Intel From: Douglas Cooper Contact: Steve Farnsworth Org: Digital Tools, Inc. Address: 18900 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, Calif. 95014 Phone: (408) 366-6933 Contact Paula Johns/Lorraine Iverson (Cooper/Iverson Marketing) Phone: (619) 292-7400 UNIX EXPO: Digital Tools' Booth #1063 SunSoft's Booth #1219 DIGITAL TOOLS PORTS AUTOPLAN TO SOLARIS 2.0 FOR INTEL NEW YORK/UNIX EXPO Q Sept. 22, 1992 Q Digital Tools, Inc., the leading provider of project management software for UNIX workstations running either the Open Look or Motif graphical user interfaces, has successfully ported its key product, AutoPLAN, to SunSoft's Solaris 2.0 distributed computing environment for personal computers (PCs) based on the Intel 80X86 architecture. The software is scheduled to be available for Solaris 2.0 for SPARC platforms in the second quarter of 1993, and for Intel platforms shortly thereafter. AutoPLAN is on display in Digital Tools' booth, #1063, and in SunSoft's booth, #1219. "SunSoft is pleased to have an important product like AutoPLAN lined up for its customers in the PC marketplace. As an early adopter of Solaris, Digital Tools is one of the first companies to successfully re-compile from SPARC to Intel architecture," said Denise Peck, SunSoft's Group Manager, Developer Marketing. "We were able to easily re-compile AutoPLAN to suit the Intel architecture," said Phillip (Flip) F. Whalen, Jr., Digital Tools' Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Now PC users can benefit from the powerful features of Solaris 2.0 and proven Solaris applications such as AutoPLAN." Available since 1990, AutoPLAN is a project management software program that helps users organize a projectUs many variables, such as schedules, tasks and resources. The software enables users to view the network of relationships involved in a project and quickly explore alternative or Rwhat-ifS scenarios in order to meet deadlines and accomplish corporate and project objectives. AutoPLAN currently runs on workstations built by Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Digital Tools, Inc. is the leading developer of project management software for Unix workstations, and a recognized source for custom software development services. Founded in 1989, Digital Tools, Inc. is privately held. For more information, contact Digital Tools, Inc., 18900 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, Calif. 95014. (408) 366-6920. ### AutoPLAN is a trademark of Digital Tools. All other brand or product names are registered trademarks of their respective holders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Rapid Application Development Environment Contact: Linda Magness Org: Market Focus Technologies (SAIC) Phone: (619) 546-6472 e-mail: scripps.edu!mfti!linda Contact: Paula Johns Cooper/Iverson Marketing phone: (619) 292-7400 e-mail: coopiver@cerf.net UNIX EXPO: Market Focus Technologies' Booth: # 1713 SunSoft Booth: #1219 RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT PORTED TO SOLARIS 2.0 FOR INTEL NEW YORK/UNIX EXPO -- (Sept. 22, 1992) -- Market Focus Technologies, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has ported its key product, Visual Programming Environment (VPE), to SunSoft's new Solaris 2.0 distributed computing environment for personal computers (PCs) based on the Intel 80X86 architecture. VPE will be available for Solaris 2.0 for the SPARC platform this month, and it will ship for the Intel platform in early 1993. It is on display in the SunSoft booth, #1219, and in the Market Focus Technologies booth, #1713. "SunSoft has been impressed with VPE's cross-platform capabilities for quite some time," said Denise Peck, SunSoft's group manager, developer marketing. "We are extremely pleased that it will soon be available to our customers in both the workstation and PC arenas." Designed for use with a wide range of workstations and Unix-based PCs operating in heterogeneous environments, VPE already has been successfully sold into commercial, technical and industrial markets. But Market Focus believes the commercial arena will increase even more for VPE now that the product has been ported to SunSoft's new Solaris 2.0 solution for Intel-based PC platforms. "The recompiling process was so easy that it enabled us to be among the first developers to port to Solaris on Intel as part of SunSoft's early-access program," said Tom Scrivner, Market Focus division manager. "This certainly will give us an edge as we, like SunSoft, expand further into the commercial mainstream." VPE 2.4 already supports PC Unix environments through compatibility with Interactive, SYSTEM VR4, and SCO Unix. It also runs under Solaris 2.0 for SPARC platforms, and other major operating systems. Established in 1985, Market Focus Technologies provides application development solutions to financial, service (travel, hotel, retail and medical markets), transportation, utility and government organizations. Market Focus Technologies joined SAIC's Commercial and International Group in 1991, and is now located at SAIC headquarters in San Diego. SAIC is a diversified high-technology company with annual revenues exceeding $1.28 billion. The company has about 14,000 employees in more than 200 offices worldwide. For more information, contact Market Focus Technologies, 10260 Campus Point Drive, San Diego, CA 92121-1578. Telephone: 619/546-6100. Fax: 619/546-6529. East Coast offices are located at 9841 Broken Land Parkway, Suite 118, Columbia, MD 21046. Telephone: 410/290-7145. Fax: 410/290-8886. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Level 2 PostScript for Sun users Newsgroups: comp.newprod Org: 5D Solutions mail: South Bank Technopark, 90 London Road, London SE1 6LN, United Kingdom. phone: +44 71 922 8814 fax: +44 71 401 8621 Contact: Ian Kemmish Email: uad1077@dircon.co.uk 5D Solutions of London England have launched a version of their Level 2 PostScript interpreter, Jaws, for the Sun SPARCstation. Jaws has previously been available as a source-only product. The SPARC version is the first of a series of configurable binary Jaws products on popular platforms. General feratures of Jaws include: o Full Level 2 implementation, as per the `Red Book', plus subsequent Adobe updates (such as the compatibility changes to sethalftone and setcolor). o Renders Type 1 and TrueType fonts. o 1, 8, 24, or 32 bit-per-pixel output. Anti-alised 8 bit monochrome and 24 or 32 bit colour. Support for colour separations including spot colour. o Configurable binary product enables you to develop your own custom device drivers. Low resolution (e.g. personal printers) and high resolution (e.g. typesetters) are both supported. Specific features of the Sparc version include: o Fully integrated with NeWSprint spooling and printer management s/ware. Device drivers for SPARCprinter, HP and Seiko printers included. Can be installed alongside NeWS as an alternative RIP. o Dedicated PostScript RIP gives higher throughput than NeWS; typically +25% for Sun's `NP-rating' benchmark. o High performance graphics and scanned images; graphics typically 4x faster than NeWS. o Development kit lets you build either Jaws configured for NeWSprint, or the normal standalone version of Jaws. o 35 Monotype Type 1 fonts included. 5D Solutions was founded in May 1990 to develop and bring to market high quality graphics system software and applications. Their first products launched last year included the source version of Jaws, and TMorph, a successful image morphing program for video production. In the US the introductory price for Jaws for the SPARC is $149 and the high resolution option is a further $99. The high res option does not have to be purchased at the same time as Jaws. Please enquire for prices elsewhere. Trademarks: Jaws is a trademark of 5D Solutions Ltd. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. SPARC and SPARCprinter are trademarks of SPARC International Inc. NeWS is registered trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NetMetrix Trend Analysis and Network Configurator From: neeraj@metrix.com (Neeraj Sangal) Org: Metrix Network Systems, Inc. mail: 1 Tara Blvd, Nashua, NH 03062 Voice: (603) 888-7000 Fax: (603) 891-2796 email: info@metrix.com New Utilities for the NetMetrix(tm) Toolset Metrix Network Systems announces two new utilities for the NetMetrix toolset. All you need is a SPARC system to use this toolset. 1. Trend Analysis Use your SPARC system to do the following types of things: - Continuously monitor the traffic on your network segments. - Generate daily reports which are automatically sent to you via electronic mail. - Examine network trends over long periods of time such as days, weeks and months. 2. Network Configurator The Network Configurator allows you to obtain a better understanding of your enterprise wide network traffic. You can, interactively, try out various scenarios of network configuration to study their effect on network traffic. Here are some of the things that you can do with the configurator: - Analyze inter-segment traffic. - See how traffic to and from servers is distributed amongst various segments. - Study the effect of "moving" servers and nodes from one segment to another on network traffic and on bridges and routers. - Compute topologies to reduce inter-segment traffic. - Decide how to partition existing segments. Free Evaluation --------------- The software is immediately available for a free 30-day evaluation within US and Canada (and through participating dealers in other countries). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SayIt! Product Announcement From: jkovacs@qualix.com (Jean Kovacs) Org: Qualix Group & Agog, Inc E-mail info@qualix.com Phone: 1-800-245-UNIX (1-415-572-0200) Fax: 1-415-572-1300 Qualix Group & Agog, Inc. are pleased to announce one of the hottest new products to hit the Sun market in years. SayIt is combines voice recognition with macro-building capability for less then $300 a copy! Here is more information: SayIt! Voice commands and Macro Builder for Sun Sparcstations General Description: SayIt! lets users create time-saving voice-activated macros that can include any sequence of keyboard or mouse input. All macros can be activated via voice commands or keyboard/ mouse commands. This dramatically increases user productivity and makes SayIt two products in one: Voice command software Powerful macro builder Features: o Add voice control to any application o Powerful macro capability - macros can be executed with voice, keyboard, or mouse o Macros can include: --mouse commands --keystrokes --UNIX shell scripts --sound --clipboard text --delays --window opening/closing --OpenLook drag 'n drop o Macros can function within an application or between applications (see examples below) o Easy to install and train -- all point & click! Requirements: Sun SPARCstation with OS 4.1.1 or greater and OW 3.0 or greater. Evaluations: Product evaluations will be available via e-mail from Qualix. Contact us at info@qualix.com for more information. Microphones: SayIt works with the SunMicrophone (tm) and any other microphone that plugs into the Sun audio jack. For noisy environments (such as a factory floor), we also recommend headset or radio-controlled microphones. (A radio-controlled microphone lets the user walk away from the workstation, but still execute commands.) Contact Qualix for more information on specific microphones. Pricing/Ordering Information: Quantity 1: $295 SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER: $195 Order now and get a 33% discount! Quantity discounts are available. Contact Qualix for details. Ordering Information: To order or get more informaion: E-mail info@qualix.com Call 1-800-245-UNIX (1-415-572-0200) Fax 1-415-572-1300 Qualix takes VISA, MasterCard, American Express or a corporate purchase order. Guarantees: Qualix offers a 30-day and money-back guarantee. If you're not completely satisfied with any Qualix product, return it within 30 days and your money will be refunded. If you find a product advertised for less than what you paid Qualix (within 30 days of purchase), let us know and we'll cheerfully refund the difference. ^L ------------------------------------------------------------- Questions and Answers: SayIt! Voice Recognition Macro Building Software for Sun Workstations Q. What is SayIt? A. SayIt is a powerful macro building software package combined with speaker dependent voice recognition for Sun workstations. Q. How does SayIt learn to recognize my voice? A. You train SayIt to recognize your voice by repeating each new command three times. This typically takes only ten seconds for each command. Q. I have a heavy accent. Will SayIt work for me? A. Yes! SayIt uses speaker dependent voice recognition. This means that you train SayIt to recognize the unique characteristics of your voice. SayIt will work for any accent AND any language. Q. Does SayIt require any internal hardware? A. No. SayIt is completely software-based. The only requirement is a microphone to hook up to your SPARC-based computer. Q. How can SayIt increase my productivity? A. By building time-saving macros, SayIt lets you access application commands that can take multiple keystrokes or mouse clicks, just by saying a single word. Q. Can I also access the application macros through the keyboard? A. Yes! With a single keystroke or mouse click you can display a menu of all your macros. Any macro can then be selected for execution with either the mouse or arrow keys. Q. What types of things can I do in an application? A. Since SayIt allows macros to include mouse clicks, mouse drags, keystrokes, and drag and drop, any repetitive sequence you do in any of your applications (or between applications) is possible to put in a macro. Q. How long does it take SayIt to respond to a voice command? A. SayIt works in real time. It takes less than a second from the time you finish saying a command until SayIt recognizes the command and starts to execute your macro. Q. How many commands can I add to SayIt? A. There is no fixed limit on the number of commands you can add to SayIt. In fact, with SayIt, you can organize your commands in logical groups, so it's easier to remember what you've recorded as macros. Q. Will SayIt slow down my machine? A. SayIt is designed so that when you're not talking, your system will not be loaded. The CPU load on a SPARC IPC is less than one percent while SayIt is waiting for you to issue a command. While performing voice recognition, there is a brief period of high CPU use, which drrops as soon as the command has been recognized. Q. Will my SunMicrophone work with SayIt? A. Absolutely! In fact, most microphones that plug into the audio adaptor on Sun workstations will work. Check with Qualix for more information on specific microphone models. Q. I'd like to use SayIt on a factory floor that's very noisy. A. No problem. If you're working in a noisy environment, we recommend a headset microphone. This lets you speak into the microphone, but not pick up any background noise. In fact, we have some users who use radio-controlled microphones! This lets them walk away from their workstation, but still automatically execute macros. Q. How difficult is SayIt to install? Do I have to be superuser? A. One of the major strengths of SayIt is its ease of use and installation. For one thing, you don't need a root password. If you can receive e-mail and use OpenWindows 3.0, SayIt can be e-mailed to you. When you receive the mail message, just click on the icon! SayIt will ask you a few questions and then automatically install itself. Q. What system configuration do I need to use SayIt? A. SayIt runs on a Sun SPARCstation under SunOS 4.1.1 or later with OpenWindows 3.0 or later. Q. Can I get an evaluation copy of SayIt? A. Yes. The evaluation copy will let you set up and execute a limited number of application and command macros. Contact Qualix for further details. Q. How much does it cost? 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