sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Products Announcements SunFLASH Vol 59 #24 November 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts 59.24.A Book: SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE by Janice Winsor This companion volume to the "SOLARIS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE" covers more advanced Solaris 2.x system administration tasks in the same practical, step-by-step, task-oriented style for which the first book was applauded. It is ideal for system administrators who are experienced with day-to-day system maintenance and who need to add system components, improve service access, or automate routine tasks. (57 lines) 59.24.B CERAM's TurboCard RAM disk & Verilog-XL Benchmarks of Verilog-XL and Verilog-XL Turbo performance completed by a number of users and Cadence Design Systems show an average five times, and up to seven times, speed-up of large timing simulations running on Sun Microsystems workstations and servers using CERAM's TurboCard RAM disk. (53 lines) 59.24.C GNN Makes SEC EDGAR Database Available via Internet The Global Network Navigator, an Internet-based online resource center, reported this afternoon that the Internet Multicasting Service, in conjunction with the New York University Stern School of Business, will be participating in a project to provide access on the Internet to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) EDGAR database. (65 lines) 59.24.D Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique Now Shipping Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE) and the Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) of Martin Marietta (formerly GE Advanced Concepts Center) announced immediate availability of the Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique (StP/OMT) tools and OMT Success Packages. The team of IDE, ACC, and GE's Corporate Research & Development Center are working together to provide comprehensive object-oriented (OO) software UNIX development solutions for deploying GE's Object Modeling Technique (OMT) methodology. Using StP/OMT analysts and designers reduce life-cycle costs, improve communications with end-users, and reuse classes and class structures to create high quality OO applications. (206 lines) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Book: SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE by Janice Winsor This companion volume to the SOLARIS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE covers more advanced Solaris 2.x system administration tasks in the same practical, step-by-step, task-oriented style for which the first book was applauded. It is ideal for system administrators who are experienced with day-to-day system maintenance and who need to add system components, improve service access, or automate routine tasks. Topics covered include: -Setting up a mail service or revising an existing one -Understanding the NIS+ naming service environment and adding a client system in an existing NIS+ environment -Planning for automounting service and administering the automounter configuration files -Using the Service Access Facility (SAF) to set up access to printers, modems, and terminals -Installing and making available third-party application software -Writing shell scripts to automate routine tasks Also included are appendices on Solaris 2.2 Volume Management and Solaris 2.3 Serial Port Manager, and a glossary of system administration terms. ISBN 1-56276-131-5; 550 pages; $29.95 US (suggested list price) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDER INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Books are available through: (1) technical bookstores worldwide, or (2) through SunExpress at 1-800-USE-SUNX or 1-800-873-7869 after November 22, 1993. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONLINE BOOK CATALOG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- For a complete SunSoft Press book catalog with customer order information, please email: sunsoftpress@Sun.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: CERAM's TurboCard RAM disk & Verilog-XL From: Bill.Miller@Ceram.COM Phone: 1-800-237-8600 email: info@CERAM.COM FIVE TIMES BETTER VERILOG PERFORMANCE ON SUN Benchmarks of Verilog-XL and Verilog-XL Turbo performance completed by a number of users and Cadence Design Systems show an average five times, and up to seven times, speed-up of large timing simulations running on Sun Microsystems workstations and servers using CERAM's TurboCard RAM disk. Some of the companies now using Sun and TurboCard to speed Verilog simulations include AT&T, Amdahl, Atmel, Abekas Video, DOD, Fujitsu, Force Computer, Gould, NEC, Weitek, and Xerox. Verilog-XL logic and timing simulation allocates up to 5K bytes of memory for each gate. With 100,000 gate designs becoming commonplace, the memory requirements are beyond the limits of most affordable desktop machines; and memory expansion for machines capable of these capacities may be cost prohibitive. Enter the TurboSwap solution! Using CERAM's TurboCard as the system's swap device provides main memory performance; expandable to 960MB on any of Sun's SBus machines; for much lower cost per megabyte than main memory expansions - especially expansions to above 300MB! TurboCard is an SBus RAM card with a built-in hardware loss-less data compression engine. TurboCard incorporates the world's fastest data compression engine! It is capable of totally loss-less average 2:1 data compression and decompression at up to 30MBytes per second; fast enough to keep up with high speed RAM and SBus! The compressed memory TurboCard is treated as an IO device by the system and comes with needed device drivers for Solaris. Because of the built-in data compression, TurboCard can cost half as much per megabyte as compared to main memory! Because TurboCard is an SBus device, the same card works across the whole Sun line of SBus machines and on compatibles! In addition, it will not become obsolete with a CPU upgrade! TurboCard can also be used as a Solid State Disk to hold a "hot" file system, as a Disk Cache to cache a file system or database that tends to have "hot spots", or as an NFS cache. CERAM has optional software available to provide the Disk and NFS cache functions. FOR A FREE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MONITORING UTILITY that can identify memory and IO bottlenecks that are slowing you down. SEND EMAIL TO: TurboTool@CERAM.COM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: GNN Makes SEC EDGAR Database Available via Internet From: allen@ora.com (Allen Noren) SEC EDGAR DATABASE TO BE MADE FREELY AVAILABLE ON INTERNET COMPUTER NETWORK (The full text of this release can be obtained from GNN. For information on subscribing to GNN see the end of this release.) Thursday, October 21, 1993 8:00 p.m. (eastern) SEBASTOPOL, CA -- The Global Network Navigator, an Internet-based online resource center, reported this afternoon that the Internet Multicasting Service, in conjunction with the New York University Stern School of Business, will be participating in a project to provide access on the Internet to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) EDGAR database. This project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Today's announcement means that the key public disclosure information contained in EDGAR will, for the first time, become available to the general public over the global Internet computer network. THE EDGAR DATABASE EDGAR is an on-line filing system mandated by the SEC for America's largest corporations. It includes documents such as the 10-K and 10-Q reports required of corporations on the New York and American stock exchanges, filings by companies trading over the counter, and a variety of other registration statements, ownership reports, and annual and quarterly reports. The EDGAR database contains key public disclosure information needed by consumers, journalists, researchers, and workers in the financial services industries. People connected to the Internet will be able to use a variety of different techniques for accessing the information in EDGAR, including electronic mail, ftp, Archie, WAIS, World Wide Web, and multicasting. GNN News contains an in-depth presentation and analysis of this important breakthrough in the dissemination of information over the Internet. HOW TO ACCESS GNN NEWS GNN is available for free on a subscription basis. However, you can access GNN News immediately and subscribe later. If you have a WWW browser such as Xmosaic, use the following URL to access the GNN News front page: http://nearnet.gnn.com/news/home/news.html HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO GNN The Global Network Navigator is available over the Internet as a free subscription service during its initial launch. To subscribe to GNN, send email to info@gnn.com. A subscription form and instructions will automatically be sent back to you. If you have any questions or comments about GNN, send email to forum@gnn.com and tell us your thoughts. For information about becoming a GNN sponsor, please send email to adv@gnn.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique Now Shipping From: Diane McGary Contact: Diane McGary Niehaus Ryan Haller P.R. +1 (415) 615-7911 Chris Lalli IDE +1 (415) 543-0900 Tamelyn Holter IDE Europe (France) +33 (1) 39 02 26 02 Rick McKenna Rossin Greenberg Seronick P.R. +1 (617) 267-4949 Elizabeth Bufo Advanced Concepts Center +1 (215) 992-6250 IDE and Advanced Concepts Center Deliver Object-Oriented Development Solutions PRESS RELEASE SUMMARY SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 11, 1993 -- Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE) and the Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) of Martin Marietta (formerly GE Advanced Concepts Center) announced immediate availability of the Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique (StP/OMT) tools and OMT Success Packages. The team of IDE, ACC, and GE's Corporate Research & Development Center are working together to provide comprehensive object-oriented (OO) software UNIX development solutions for deploying GE's Object Modeling Technique (OMT) methodology. Using StP/OMT analysts and designers reduce life-cycle costs, improve communications with end-users, and reuse classes and class structures to create high quality OO applications. StP/OMT, is available as a stand-alone tool, but the full value of moving to OO is best realized through OMT Success Packages, designed to quickly introduce object techniques and tools into an organization. OMT Success Packages include training, consulting, mentoring, and maintenance, in addition to software supporting teams of analysts and designers. Supported platforms include Sun SPARC systems with additional ports in Q4 1993. Pricing begins at $12,000 for a single user system. IDE and ACC will jointly market and sell the new solutions. For more information, phone IDE at (800) 888-IDE1 or ACC at (800) 438-7246. **************************************************************************** **** BODY OF PRESS RELEASE **************************************************************************** SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 11, 1993 -- Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE) and the Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) of Martin Marietta (formerly GE Advanced Concepts Center) announced immediate availability of the Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique (StP/OMT) tools and OMT Success Packages on Sun SPARC workstations and servers. These new offerings provide comprehensive object-oriented (OO) software development solutions for deploying GE's Object Modeling Technique (OMT) methodology. StP/OMT offers advanced support for software analysts and designers building OO applications on UNIX. With StP/OMT, users can clearly define a project's problem domain, create complete object and system level designs, and re-use existing class structures to create high quality applications. Product availability comes less than four months after the original announcement of the IDE/ACC relationship, illustrating the strength and viability of the commitment made by these organizations. StP/OMT is available as a stand-alone tool or as part of OMT Success Packages. These success packages are designed to support the introduction of object-oriented techniques and include training, consulting, mentoring, and maintenance, in addition to software. Current StP/OMT customers include Raytheon, Storage Tek, and VISA International. Not Just Another Relationship StP/OMT and OMT Success Packages are the result of a three-way partnership. Three leaders in object-oriented technology, (GE, IDE, and ACC), have joined talents to help users realize the full benefits of object-oriented development. GE's Corporate Research and Development Center has defined, and based on user feedback, continues to refine OMT, the most intuitive object-oriented methodology. IDE, recognized as the leading UNIX CASE solutions provider with 10 years of experience developing integrated multi-user software development environments, provides tools and services to automate implementation of OMT. The Advanced Concepts Center (ACC), the leader in object-oriented technology transfer, provides object technology methodology training, mentoring, consultancy, and project support offerings, and is the primary sponsor of GE's continuing OMT evolution. OMT Success Packages combine methodology, tools, and training/consulting to ensure success. They are designed to help development teams improve productivity, quality and communication through successfully implementing OO techniques and building a competitive edge in software development. "To be successful, companies need an effective combination of both products and services to help them make the shift to object-oriented development. By working together, the Advanced Concepts Center and IDE will be able to offer both high quality training and first-class CASE for OMT," commented Clark Hobbie, Software Engineer, Storage Tek. ACC and GE are major contributors to the StP/OMT product specification process. Their years of hands-on experience with users of OO technology provide invaluable real-world input, bridging the gap between theory and practice. As OMT evolves in response to user feedback, this partnership will ensure that automated tools and training programs remain synchronized with the methodology. "IDE's strategic partnership with GE and the Advanced Concept Center of Martin Marietta will enable IDE to quickly take advantage of the growing demand for Object Modeling Technique," said Steve McClure, International Data Corporation's Senior Consultant for Object Technologies. "It also signals IDE's commitment to become a strong player in the arena of object-oriented analysis and design tool vendors offering support for multiple methodologies and notations." StP/OMT Supports the Entire Development Process StP/OMT is an intuitive tool that is easy to learn and facilitates team development. The product supports all aspects of the object-oriented development process: requirements analysis, design, implementation, documentation, deployment, maintenance, and continuous development. StP/OMT is based on IDE's Release 5.0 architecture. As with all Software through Pictures products, StP/OMT supports multiple users in an open environment, with a shared repository, version control and locking, consistency checking, inter-model navigation, and code and document generation. The StP/OMT Advantage StP/OMT provides numerous benefits by allowing users to: o Understand and define problem domains through use of object, dynamic, and functional models, improving clarity to the end-user and reducing life-cycle costs. o Navigate seamlessly between all three modeling views of the same object, allowing users to manage the level of detail they need at various steps in the development process and ensuring systems meet user requirements. o Easily access information via a table-oriented browser, which facilitates reuse of classes and class structures, quickly creating reusable software assets and helping users to better understand their object model. o Partition the analysis/design model into subsystems in order to see the relationships between modules, improving manageability of complex applications. o Move easily between views of class definitions and their implementation via programming environment integrations, which allow users to quickly improve their understanding of a system. "I like the elegant OMT object modeling notation. In my search for an industrial strength tool to automate an OOA methodology, StP/OMT stands out with features like consistency checking, document generation, flexibility and extensibility," stated Dr. Robert J. Panek, Principal Engineer, Software Systems Engineering, Raytheon. StP/OMT is faithful to both the object paradigm (supporting encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism) and the OMT methodology. As a result, systems modeled with StP/OMT directly reflect the real world in a manner easily understood by end-users. In addition, because of StP/OMT's extensive automation, developers can focus their attention on understanding the system to be implemented, rather than on mundane, labor-intensive activities. Transitioning to Object-Oriented Development Moving to object-oriented development involves more than just choosing tools and mastering a new methodology. The ability to leverage object-oriented techniques depends largely on the ability of people to change their overall development approach. It requires a fundamental review and restructuring of how software is developed. In order to successfully make these changes, people need a combination of best-of-class tools and the support of an experienced training and consulting organization. IDE, GE and ACC have combined their skills to ensure success when moving to object-oriented development. "Object-oriented development is a natural fit for client/server technology and OMT is the right object method", said Pete Connor, VISA International. "But we also needed the right tool to support this method. Given IDE's history of developing CASE tools for client/server environments, StP's open architecture, and the business relationship between IDE and the ACC, the right choice was StP/OMT." Pricing and Availability StP/OMT licenses are available for $12,000 per-user. Success Packages including software, consulting, training, and one year of maintenance are available for development teams ranging from 5-10 users for $100,000. StP/OMT is now shipping on Sun SPARC workstations and servers running Solaris, and supports development on other platforms configured as X terminals. Releases on HP/9000 series 700/800 and IBM RS/6000 workstations and servers are scheduled for fourth quarter 1993. Interactive Development Environments, Inc. Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE) was founded in 1983 with a vision of providing an advanced software development environment on UNIX workstations. The company has effectively combined this vision with technology leadership, partnership with other industry leaders, and a strong commitment to customer success. Today, IDE has more than 1,000 customers in 25 countries on 5 continents. IDE's headquarters is at 595 Market Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105. Phone 1-800-888-IDE1. Advanced Concepts Center Acting as technology enablers, the Advanced Concepts Center of Martin Marietta offers a wide variety of software and professional support services for clients developing object-oriented applications. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, the Advanced Concepts Center offers training, mentoring, software products, and development capabilities that provide for an integrated technology transfer to improve productivity for client organizations worldwide. Phone 1-800-438-7246. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. (Login as 'gopher' for a simple gopher client, 'swais' for a simple WAIS client (over 500 databases). 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