sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sunflash@suntri sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Announcements SunFLASH Vol 53 #30 May 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary 53.30.A Viman Software Ships LicenseServ 3.0 - License Manager New version of network license manager available for all major workstation platforms 53.30.A Syntax inc. Releases NetWare-Compatible Server For Unix NWserver, software that enables UNIX computers to provide file and print services to Novell NetWare and DOS clients on an Ethernet network. 53.30.A First GNU CD-ROM from the Free Software Foundation GNU CD-ROM Edition 1.0 - $100 for individuals - contains source for the GNU Project including Emacs, GCC and many more. 53.30.A Matrix News - A newsletter about Networks This for-fee newsletter is available by email or paper. It addresses all of the major networks including Internet, USENET & CompuServe 53.30.A X Windows & OSF/Motif for Sun - Only $99 Black & White Software, Inc. offers an inexpensive binary implementation of OSF/Motif and X11 (R4 & R5) for Sun 53.30.A PSI Introduces World-Dial Service Largest commercial Internet access provider offers new dial-in service. 53.30.A Los Altos Technologies releases LAT TermServ Dial-in Security Firewall and Secure Modem Pool Management Program -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Viman Software Ships LicenseServ 3.0 - License Manager Newsgroups: comp.newprod Contact: Vikram Duvvoori Organization: Viman Software, Santa Cruz, California Phone: (800) 827-4590 (USA, Canada, Mexico); Ph: (408) 459-0678 FAX: (408) 458-2862 email: info@viman.com Viman Software Ships LicenseServ 3.0 on all major workstations. Santa Cruz, CA., Th. April 29, 1993 - Viman Software today announced the release of its next generation of network license manager, LicenseServ 3.0, for all major workstation platforms (including Sun, HP, NeXT, IBM RS/6000, DEC, SGI, Apollo and IBM PCs). LicenseServ is a licensing software package that allows software developers to support a wide range of licensing options including usage based licensing and full-featured evaluation copies. Existing customers who have been shipping their products with LicenseServ for over a year now have been extremely satisfied with their experience. Some complex applications were licensed by earlier customers within a few minutes and were shipping globally within one week. With a comprehensive set of features at an affordable price, LicenseServ brings sophisticated licensing within the reach of even small software developers. LicenseServ is available on more than twenty Unix platforms. Integration is straightforward as it only involves adding a few (3 in many cases) function calls to the application code. The licensing is transparent to end-users and the tools which come with LicenseServ make license management simple for system administrators at the end-user sites. This release introduces several new licensing features along with function-level compliance with the LS API 1.0 - a recent standard in license management. Software vendors license their applications by linking them to the LicenseServ libraries. The vendors then have a rich set of choices. A small sample of the range of licensing options includes: - Personal/Group Licenses (restricting usage to a set of users/machines) - Component Licenses (licensing different modules within an application) - Shared licenses (several users/machines sharing a single license) - Site licenses (usage restricted to a particular site) - Version control (licensing different versions of the same software) The licenses can be customized for each of the copies shipped. The software can be restricted to a limited number of concurrent copies running on the network, or node-locked to a particular set of machines. The vendor can easily create full-featured demo copies of applications that can be sent with a "time-bomb" which would prevent them from running beyond a certain date. Extensions of this date, or upgrading the demo to a full release, could then be done by simply sending a short encrypted string over the phone or facsimile. The basic version, LicenseServ Standard, lists at $2000 for the first platform and $1000 for each additional platform. The advanced version, LicenseServ Extended, lists at $ 5000 for the first platform and $ 2000 for each additional platform. All prices include 1 year of free technical support, upgrades and a 30 day money back guarantee. Viman Software is headquartered at 1320 Mission Street, Suite 5, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA. For more information please send email to info@viman.com or call toll-free (800) 827-4590 (408-459-0678 outside North America) or send a fax to (408) 458-2862 ---------------- LicenseServ, LS API 1.0, Sun, HP, NeXT, IBM RS/6000, DEC, SGI, Apollo and IBM are trademarks of their respective owners. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Syntax inc. Releases NetWare-Compatible Server For Unix Contact: Chris Ann Liles Phone: 206/838-2626. Org: Syntax Inc fax: 206/838-9836 NetWare users connect to an NWserver host just as they do to Novell NetWare servers on the LAN. The NWserver host appears as simply another NetWare volume to the client. The NWserver directories and printers are used just as if they were local. Users store files and applications on the NWserver host for direct use. Files stored on the NWserver host are protected by both NetWare and UNIX security features, and NWserver allows file and record locking. NetWare clients can now take advantage of the storage space available on UNIX computers, thus transparently extending their local file systems, without having to learn UNIX commands. They retain their familiar DOS or Windows environments. The UNIX print spooler is used, allowing local memory to be used for other tasks. Printers formerly restricted to a UNIX network can now be shared on a broader scale. NetWare users can print directly to printers connected to NWserver hosts. Files stored on an NWserver host may be shared with DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations on the LAN, instead of being limited to NetWare clients. Applications stored on an NWserver host may be used by multiple clients, saving space and simplifying administration of multi-user licensed programs. NWserver is available for SunOS 4.1.x (Solaris 1.x) on Sun Sparcstations and will soon be available for Solaris 2.x, IBM AIX 3.1 for the IBM RISC System/6000, and HP/UX for the Hewlett-Packard 9000 series. Support for other platforms is planned. Also, support for Macintosh clients and for Token Ring networks is planned. NWserver system files occupy less than 3 MB of disk space on the server, and no dedicated disk space for client files is required. Suggested price of NWserver starts at $1,295 for 10 users. Price varies on number of users. Syntax began developing software for minicomputers on local-area networks (LANs) in 1983. The Syntax family of products, TotalNET, has evolved to meet the increasingly complex requirements of large enterprise, multi-vendor LANs. The Syntax product strategy focuses on industry-standard and open-system components that allow the enterprise to implement complex networks at the lowest possible cost, while improving overall system productivity. Syntax products are offered worldwide through a growing number of systems integrators. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: First GNU CD-ROM from the Free Software Foundation Newsgroups: comp.newprod From: gnulists@ai.mit.edu (GNU Mailing List Maintenance) Reply-To: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu Org: Project GNU, Free Software Foundation, Address: 675 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Phone: +1 (617) 876-3296 Announcing the GNU CD-ROM Edition 1.0 ------------------------------------- The Free Software Foundation has produced its first CD-ROM. This CD contains sources to the full distribution of the GNU Project including: Emacs, GCC, G++, GDB, Bison, GAS, Make, GAWK, Texinfo, the GNU Utilities, RCS and CVS, f2c, gnuplot, Ghostscript, tar, diff, and BASH, as well as the MIT X Window System, MIT Scheme, the Andrew Toolkit, and TeX. Versions are current as of October 1992. Also, the CD contains packages which run on 80386 or 80486 machines under MS-DOS, including: Demacs (GNU Emacs for MSDOS), DJGPP (a port of GCC 2.2.2), and MIT Scheme 7.2. In addition, it contains Mtools, which is a public domain collection of programs to allow Unix systems to read, write, and manipulate files on an MSDOS filesystem (typically a diskette). The CD is in ISO 9660 format. You can mount it as a read-only file system on most operating systems. Also, you can build most of this software without needing to copy the sources off the CD; you need only enough free disk space for the object files and the intermediate build targets. Except for several of the MS-DOS packages, there are no precompiled programs on this CD. You will need a C compiler (programs which need some other sort of interpreter or compiler normally provide the C source to a bootstrapping program). The CD contains more than 46,000 files. The CD costs $100 if you are an individual, $400 if you are a business. This is a distribution fee. The software is `copylefted', which means you have the the right to copy, change, and redistribute it. Please also consider adding a tax-deductible donation to your order. Your donation will help to support the Foundation and make our future efforts successful, including the development of new programs and the continued maintenance of our existing software. Donations are our major source of income for program development. For an order form, or more information on GNU and the Foundation, contact us at: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or Free Software Foundation 675 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 +1-617-876-3296 Thank You. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Matrix News - A newsletter about Networks From: jsq@tic.com Org: Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) Email: mids@tic.com Phone: +1-512-451-7602 Fax: +1-512-450-1436 Address: 1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 500W Austin, TX 78723 U.S.A. Matrix News is a newsletter about cross-network issues. Networks frequently mentioned include USENET, UUCP, FidoNet, BITNET, the Internet, and conferencing systems such as the WELL and CompuServe. Matrix News is not about any single one of them. It is about the Matrix, which is all computer networks worldwide that exchange electronic mail. Matrix News is distributed both on paper and online electronically. Online subscriptions are $25 for twelve monthly issues, or $15 for students. We distribute by electronic mail, in either of two formats: Postscript (a single file for a whole issue) or ASCII (may not include some figures). We prefer you pick one. Both are $35. We ask online subscribers not to redistribute the newsletter, or individual articles from it. Please do not remail them, and please do not put them up for anonymous FTP, WAIS, etc. This is so that we and our contributors can continue to provide articles and we can continue to distribute them. We are, however, happy to discuss terms with organizations that wish to redistribute internally or to their customers. Paper subscriptions are $30 for twelve monthly issues, or $20 for students. For overseas post, add $10. For both both online and paper, the price is $35/year, $25 for students. Add $10 for overseas postage. Back issues are $4 each. The current issue is Vol. 3, no. 3, March 1993. We accept checks in U.S. dollars, as well as MasterCard and VISA. Some sample articles are available by: anonymous FTP from tic.com, under ~ftp/matrix/news (connect with FTP to tic.com, log in as anonymous with password guest, and change directories to matrix/news) gopher from tic.com (do "gopher tic.com" and look under MIDS, then under Matrix News, or look for MIDS in the main gopher list from boombox) WAIS database matrix_news from quake.think.com, port 210. These sample issues available for free are not the whole newsletter. Back issues are, however, available online at the back issue rate. We also send sample issues to interested parties. Thanks, John -- Matrix News Editor: John S. Quarterman Managing Editor: Smoot Carl-Mitchell ISSN: 1059-0749 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chas@blackwhite.com (Charles White) Subject: X Windows & OSF/Motif for Sun - Only $99 Newsgroups: comp.newprod Org: Black & White Software, Inc. Address: 2155 South Bascom Ave. Suite 210 Campbell, CA 95008 Phone: (408) 369-7400 Fax: (408) 369-7406 Email: info@blackwhite.com Convert your Sun Workstation to OSF/Motif compliance at an incredibly low price! X11R4 or X11R5 for $99 (site license) OSF/Motif 1.1.5 or OSf/Motif 1.2.2 for $99 (per cpu) X11R4 and X11R5 are only available with the purchase of OSF/Motif One year technical support for OSF/Motif $75 One year technical support for X & OSF/Motif $100 Also available, HP-VUE for Sun, IBM or DEC only $300 Each version of OSF/Motif consists of the following: ---------------------------------------------------- All binaries All shared, static, linted, and debuggable libraries Numerous demo programs Complete man-pages Simple installation and uninstallation instructions Each version of X Windows consists of the following: ---------------------------------------------------- All binaries including color and mono servers All shared, static, linted, and debuggable libraries Numerous demonstration programs Complete man-pages Simple installation and uninstallation instructions Distribution of OSF/Motif is available on a 3.5" floppy discs Distribution of X and Motif is available on a 1/4" QIC tape. OSF/Motif & Motif are trademarks of OSF XWindows is a trademark of MIT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PSI Introduces World-Dial Service From: brown@psi.com (Kimberly Brown) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Org: Performance Systems International, Inc. Reston Virginia. contact: Kimberly Brown Address: Suite 1100, 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA Phone: 703-620-6651 Fax: 703-620-4586 Email: info@psi.com Contact: Michael Vernetti of Kaufman Public Relations Phone: 202-333-0700 (phone), 202-337-0449 (fax) Email: vernetti@psilink.com (e-mail) PSI INTRODUCES WORLD-DIAL REMOTE DIALUP ACCESS TO THE OFFICE AND THE GLOBAL INTERNET RESTON, VA, April 23, 1993 -- Mobile workers and telecommuters can access their workplace or any Internet computer using PSI's inexpensive dialup service announced this week. Performance Systems International, Inc. (PSI), the nation's largest provider of commercial Internet access and internetworking services, has launched World-Dial in more than 40 cities across the U.S. With it, users can reach their corporate site's local area network (LAN) with its computers and data resources or Internet host computers all over the world from home computers, terminals or portable laptops. World-Dial is a means of extending access to users who are away from the office but still need the resources of their office and the Internet. World-Dial can be used 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There is no extra charge for telephone or electronic mail support from PSI's Customer Support Group (CSG). Pricing for World-Dial includes a one-time registration fee of $19 and non-prime time usage rates as low as $1.25 an hour. There is a minimum monthly usage fee of $9. World-Dial supports all the standard Internet interactive terminal access protocols, such as telnet and rlogin. In addition, telnet 3270 (or tn3270), a standard for IBM 3270 access over TCP/IP, is supported for those IBM hosts attached to the Internet. For network graphics users, the commercial standard of XRemote is supported, numerous X-terminals and X-terminal software packages support it on personal computers. To access World-Dial, users need only a terminal or communications package such as Cross Talk, MacTerminal or Kermit for PC or Macintosh, and a modem. World-Dial supports 1200, 2400, 9600 and 14400 baud access, along with V.42 and V.42bis error correction and compression on all 9600 and 14400 baud rotaries. If users have an X-terminal or X-software package supports XRemote, then the addition of a modem should provide them with Internet X access at 9600 (V.32) or 14400 baud (V.32bis). PSINet is nationally deployed with V.32bis modems; in the future, V.Fast will be available. PSI is a value-added internetworking services provider with a wide variety of services for individual and corporate users of electronic information. Services range from electronic mail products to turnkey integration of local area networks into the PSINet wide area network system and the Internet. # # # # All brands, products and service names mentioned are the trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Los Altos Technologies releases LAT TermServ From: Gary Kremen [gary@lat.com] Contact: Jeff Yunker (info@lat.com) Phone: 415/949-4567, 800-999-UNIX LOS ALTOS, CA, May 11, 1993 --- Los Altos Technologies, Inc. has released LAT TermServ (TM), its dial-in security firewall and secure modem pool management product. "LAT TermServ is more than a modem pool management program. It is a comprehensive security program with features that make it a secure firewall to protect your systems from modem wielding crackers" according to Dr. Robert Baldwin, Director of Development. Current features include dial in passwords, callback passwords, session tapping (the recording of a modem's input /output), support for standard protocols (telnet, rlogin, Hayes), multiple session support, configurable hang up, idle time-out detection, rich management reports, no local host permissions, uucp dial back and more. LAT TermServ can protect a single host, or act as a dial-in terminal concentrator. It can restrict each user to a specified list of hosts. To avoid retyping passwords, LAT TermServ can use the rlogin protocol to connect to other hosts. You do not need to buy any new hardware. You can upgrade the security and manageability of your system with software only. The product is the global standard at several companies including Sun Microsystems, Inc. This program is available for almost all versions of UNIX including Sun, SCO, Pyramid and HP-UX. A two port license is priced from $995. LAT TermServ was recently purchased from the Qualtrak Corporation of San Jose, CA. Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Los Altos Technologies, Inc. is a leader in UNIX security software. Los Altos Technologies has developed such software as UniShred Pro (TM), a government approved declassification program and co-developed Fortress (TM), a UNIX Review Product of the Month security program. Los Altos Technologies, Inc. markets its products both directly and through selected VARs and system integrators. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. 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