Syndesis has made source-code licenses available for InterChange for Microsoft Windows and SGI IRIX. InterChange translates between more than 50 3-D file formats, including Autodesk 3D Studio, Microsoft Softimage and Direct3d, Apple QuickDraw 3D, VRML, LightWave, trueSpace, AutoCAD DXF, Inventor, Wavefront, Alias, and others. The nonexclusive license includes more than 300,000 lines of ANSI C source code.
Syndesis Corp.
P.O. Box 65
235 South Main Street
Jefferson, WI 53549
414-674-5200
http://www.threedee.com/
Apiary has announced OCX Expert, an add-on utility for Borland Delphi 2.0 that lets you create 32-bit ActiveX custom controls directly in Delphi. OCX Expert converts most existing Delphi 2.0 VCL components into ActiveX controls with little or no change. Integrated into the Delphi environment, the Expert steps you through a series of questions that determine which properties and methods should be exposed in the ActiveX control. MFC or separate run-time libraries are not needed to create or distribute these controls.
Apiary Inc.
500 E. Markham, Suite 310
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-376-3600
http://www.apiary.com/
Motorola's Customer Specified Integrated Circuits (CSIC) Microcontroller Division has announced the release of a CD-ROM to support its 68HC08 family of microcontrollers. The CD-ROM contains 50 new documents on the 68HC08 family including hyperlinked reference and technical manuals and general-release specifications. Also included are a free assembler and simulator software.
Motorola's Microcontroller Technologies Group announced its RTEK real-time kernel for 68HC12, 68HC16, and MPC800 families. The RTEK kernel provides over 180 services to manage system resources such as the CPU, program tasks, memory, and time. The RTEK kernel enables real-time data manipulation and provides a common API for all related tasks. Also included is RTEKgen, a graphical system-generation program that simplifies system configuration.
Motorola CSIC Division
P.O. Box 13026
Austin, TX 78711-9855
800-765-7795 ext. 858
http://design-net.com/csic/
Aestiva has announced Aestiva Overlays, a tool for web-site designers that enables rapid development of advanced sites. With Overlays, you place Overlay Tags (Otags) in your HTML documents to perform functions that formerly required CGI such as user tracking, password-restricted areas, customized shopping lists, and mathematical functions. Overlays support master pages where you can make changes on a single page, and every page will reflect these changes. Overlays ships for UNIX and Windows NT and comes with a web editor and desktop.
Aestiva
1001 Hermosa Avenue, Suite 205
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
888-237-8482
http://www.aestiva.com/
Forte Software has announced its Forte Web SDK, which provides access to enterprise applications from the World Wide Web. The Forte Web SDK complements the Forte Application Environment, enabling Netscape's Navigator and other web browsers to function as Forte clients with full access to Forte application servers that can support thousands of concurrent users. The Forte Application Environment is an integrated
set of object-oriented tools for building,
deploying, and managing client/server applications. Forte provides automatic application partitioning, object-oriented development, and platform independence.
Forte Software
1800 Harrison Street, Suite 2400
Oakland, CA 94612
510-869-3400
http://www.forte.com/
WorkGroup Solutions has announced Linux Pro Desktop, a complete network desktop operating system utilizing the X-Inside's Common Desktop Environment (CDE) for Linux. CDE, recognized as a standard by many open systems vendors, is comprised of a desktop, user tools, network tools, deskset applications, and development tools. Additionally, it provides interapplication communication (similar in concept to OLE and ActiveX), the Group Scheduling function, and an integrated multimedia e-mail facility. Additionally, Linux Pro Desktop provides published APIs for development and interaction.
WorkGroup Solutions has also announced WorkGroup Enterprise Server, a flexible, cross-platform Internet/intranet server software package. WorkGroup Enterprise Server combines Linux with the FlagShip programming language and database engine. Users can create a complete database-enabled web site with existing code written in Clipper, Fox, or dBase, as well as other languages.
WorkGroup Solutions
P.O. Box 460190
Aurora, CO 80046-0190
303-699-7470
http://www.wgs.com/
Spyglass has released Spyglass Web Server SDK 2.0. This version offers Microsoft ISAPI and PCT compatibility on both Windows NT and UNIX platforms in addition to improved usability and performance and additional platform support.
Spyglass Inc.
1240 E. Diehl Road
Naperville, IL 60563
630-245-6505
http://www.spyglass.com/
InterSystems has announced Open M/WebLink, a tool that links the World Wide Web and most M databases. Open M/WebLink provides links to the server through Microsoft's ISAPI and Netscape's NSAPI rather than through the CGI. A single-connection license is available at no charge from the InterSystems web site. Open M/Weblink is available for Windows NT and major UNIX platforms, and supports Netscape and Microsoft web servers.
InterSystems Corp.
One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-621-0600
http://www.intersys.com/
Syndesis Ltd. has released its Fuzzy Logic Development Environment (FLDE) for embedded systems. FLDE supports portable ANSI C code generation that is a self-contained, strictly deterministic, re-entrant subset of C that supports all standard C data types. It features a debugging facility that allows embeddable source-level debugging of compiled fuzzy logic, tracing, break points, watch, and profiling of all fuzzy logic entities.
Syndesis Ltd.
Iofondos 7
Athens 116 34, Greece
+30-1-7292985
syndesis@hol.gr
Requisite recently announced a multiuser version of RequisitePro. RequisitePro integrates requirements-management, requirements-traceability, and change-management capabilities to help software development teams manage the impact of fast-changing requirements. RequisitePro uses Microsoft Access to allow users with varying project responsibilities to view the requirements database and project documents at the same time. It also integrates Microsoft Word with a requirements database so project teams can gather, enter, and manage requirements within documents or in a database.
Requisite Inc.
4720 Table Mesa Drive, Suite F
Boulder, CO 80303
800-732-4047
http://www.requirement.com/requisite/
O'Reilly & Associates has released Statisphere, a web traffic analyzer. Running on Windows 95/NT, 32-bit Statisphere analyzes ASCII log files for Windows, UNIX and Macintosh Web servers. The tool supports Common (older NCSA/CERN), Combined (NCSA/CERN), and Windows log file formats. Statisphere provides dynamic, real-time graphs that are updated every 60 seconds and can be displayed on the Windows desktop. Statisphere constructs an initial database for a particular profile and updates that database with new data extracted from the server's logs, rather than reading the entire log for every analysis.
O'Reilly & Associates
101 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
800-998-9938
http://www.ora.com/
Integrated Computer Solutions has announced Builder Xcessory PRO (BX PRO), an integrated product suite for visual object-oriented development. BX PRO supports both Java and C/C++ development. BX PRO enables cross-platform applications to be built in Java or, with an optional software development kit, allows applications built in C/C++ to be deployed to Windows systems. BX PRO consists of Builder Xcessory, a GUI builder for Java and Motif; ViewKit ObjectPak, a C++ reuse framework; and EnhancementPak, a library of 27 reusable components.
Integrated Computer Solutions Inc.
201 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-621-0060
http://www.ics.com/
Folio 4, from Folio, is a set of software tools for publishing, managing, and distributing professional electronic information. Folio 4 allows third parties to build customized information applications using a component-based development environment with either Microsoft ActiveX controls or C language APIs.
Folio
5072 North 300 West
Provo, UT 84604
801-229-6700
http://www.folio.com/
Eastern Systems has announced TestBed 5.0 for Windows 95/NT 4.0. TestBed analyzes C, C++, Ada, Cobol, and Pascal source code and highlights areas of concern for attention. TestBed's Static Analysis capabilities include programming-standards verification, structured-programming verification, complexity-metric measurement, variable cross-reference, unreached-code reporting, static control-flow tracing, and procedure-call analysis. TestBed Dynamic Analysis executes an instrumented version of the source code to detect code-coverage defects, statement-execution frequency analysis, LCSAJ subpath coverage, and multiple subcondition coverage. TestBed options such as Tbsafe help users achieve quality certifications including RTCA/DO178B and BS EN ISO9000/TickelT. TestBed 5.0 itself was produced under an ISO9000 quality-management system.
Eastern Systems Inc.
160 E. Main Street
P.O. Box 1087
Westboro, MA 01581
508-366-3223
http://www.easternsystems.com/
Thomson Software Products has announced ObjectAda for Windows and UNIX environments, a graphical, object-oriented Ada development environment for creating applications based on the industry standard, object-oriented Ada 95 language. ObjectAda provides fast recompilation of very large programs, provides facilities for linking Ada code with C++ applications and vice versa, and can generate Java bytecode.
Thomson Software Products
101 Merritt 7
Norwalk, CT 06856
203-845-5000
http://www.thomsoft.com/
Pro Event Map provides informative views of Visual Basic projects. The VisPro Code Cache provides code generation for Basic language constructs, system objects, message boxes, input boxes, and file I/O. The VisPro List View and VisPro Alignment Palette ease modification of control properties.
HockWare
315 North Academy Street, Suite 100
Cary, NC 27513
919-380-0616
http://www.vispro.com/