The System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute is publishing an e-mail digest of various security-related announcements. SANS hopes to issue the digest about eight times a year. Subscriptions through the end of 1998 are free if you subscribe before July 31, 1997. After that, a one-year subscription costs $80.00. To subscribe, send e-mail to sans@ clark.net with the line, "subscribe SANS Network Security Digest [e-mail address]" in the subject or the body.
The SANS Institute
4610 Tournay Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-1841
301-229-0894
sans@clark.net
Black Dirt Software announced the release of Convert 1.0, a Visual Basic-to-Java Converter. Convert 1.0 provides a graphical rendering of the original Visual Basic screen, including sophisticated user-interface elements such as Frames and Tabbed dialogs. It includes extensive online help and many examples. Convert 1.0 costs $59.99 and is available immediately for purchase and electronic delivery from ObjectTiger (http://www.objecttiger.com/).
Black Dirt Software
Pulaski Highway
RR. 2 Box 130
Goshen, NY 10924
914-651-1599
http://www.blackdirt.com/
Emulation Technology announces a new Ball Grid Array (BGA) Socket and Probing System. The BGA-system design is based on an elastomeric connector array that is in the same configuration as the BGA package footprint, minimizing trace lengths and adapter height, and eliminating the need to design in additional signal access pins. Designers are able to attach test equipment to boards during hardware development. The BGA Socket and Probing System is available for $1800.00.
Emulation Technology Inc.
2344 Walsh Avenue, Building F
Santa Clara, CA 95051
408-982-0660
http://www.emulation.com/
Cybersource has announced FaultWEB, a web- and e-mail-based interface for corporate defect and developer bug tracking. It allows beta testers and clients to submit trouble tickets using web browsers, and it provides developers with a web-based query and update facility. FaultWEB costs $150.00.
Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
Level 8, 140 Queen Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
+61 3 9642 5997
http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/product/fault/faultweb.htm
Spyglass has announced Spyglass MicroServer, a World Wide Web server designed for embedding in a wide range of non-PC devices. The core Spyglass MicroServer provides standard HTTP functionality in 60 KB of memory when compiled for an Intel processor. The core Spyglass MicroServer also features HTTP 1.1 compliance, a single-process server handling multiple simultaneous users, and support for CGI, ISAPI, and Java servlets. Supported platforms include LynxOS, QNX, OS-9, VxWorks, pSOS, and Windows CE. Development licenses for Spyglass MicroServer start at $50,000.00.
Spyglass also announced Spyglass Device Mosaic 1.0, a thin browser that requires as little as 1.7 MB of memory. Spyglass lets you design a user interface for a particular device. Device Mosaic is available immediately on Solaris and NCDware, and can be ported to Integrated Systems, Lynx, Microware, PowerTV, QNX, or Wind River. Device Mosaic also offers additional components such as SSL encryption and Java applet support in non-PC devices. Development licenses for Device Mosaic start at $50,000.00.
Spyglass Inc.
1240 E. Diehl Road
Naperville, IL 60563
630-505-1010
http://www.spyglass.com/
Electronic Software Publishing (Elsop) announced LinkScan 2.0, a multithreaded, simultaneous link checker that produces two types of maps of web sites: SiteMap and TapMap. SiteMap arranges links in a hierarchical format that resembles a book's table of contents. TapMap is an expandable and collapsible site map. New features include an improved multisite manager, enhanced support for proxy servers, and site map customization features. Free evaluation copies of LinkScan may be downloaded from the company's web site. Licenses for government agencies or large commercial enterprises are $495.00 each. Licenses for charitable nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, or individuals for personal use are $49.95 each. A license is required for each server on which the product is used.
Electronic Software Publishing Corp.
1504 #8-00200 Main Street
Gardnerville, NV 89410-5273
ken@elsop.com
http://www.elsop.com/
Adobe Systems has implemented a PDF-to-HTML translator as a way to enhance accessibility of PDF files for the visually impaired. The translator extracts text from PDF files in the proper order, and generates HTML. You can perform the translation by submitting URLs to the Adobe Access web server, using an Adobe proxy server that automatically converts any PDF file you encounter to HTML, or by downloading Acrobat Access, a plugin available for the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Adobe Systems Inc.
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110
408-536-6000
http://access.adobe.com/
HOPS International released software that provides a client/server job manager to control, retrieve, and manipulate warehoused data. HOPS uses heuristic algorithms to try to determine and assign the most efficient processing method to any given task. As part of the indexing process, the raw data is heuristically examined so that an optimal structure is created. HOPS stores and manipulates tables in a compressed form. HOPS provides SQL and ODBC database access, and allows users to use industry-standard front-end query and reporting tools. HOPS license fees are $10,000 per month during system development and $20,000 per month in production.
HOPS International
15105 N.W. 77th Avenue
Miami Lakes, FL 33014
305-827-8600
http://www.hops.com/
GuestTrack announced the release of Version 2 of its GuestTrack and GT/Catalog Web server software. GuestTrack, which provides personalization and tracking tools for your web site, now features multiconditional text display based on profile information, include files, and temporary databases for session-specific personalization. GT/Catalog, a web catalog development tool, now includes personalized product descriptions, look-up tables for related information, and a flexible data creation module to import data from existing product databases. GuestTrack licenses are currently $1000.00 per web site (per domain). A GT/Catalog license is $2000.00 per site and includes GuestTrack functionality.
GuestTrack Inc.
5540 Centerview Drive, Suite 411
Raleigh, NC 27606
919-859-3073
http://www.guesttrack.com/
BlueWater Systems released Version 2.0 of WinDK Device Driver Development Kit with a new Device Driver Wizard and an enhanced class library. The new Device Driver Wizard creates hundreds of lines of driver code from driver specifications. The Wizard handles driver implementation issues like cancel routines, clean-up, multiprocessor safe SpinLocks, IRP queuing, and DMA channel allocations. The price for the full WinDK 2.0 Device Driver Development Kit for Windows NT 4.0 is $59,500.00 (library source code costs an additional $200.00). The kit runs on NT 4.0 or 3.51, Intel, Alpha, MIPS or PowerPC, and Microsoft Visual C++ 4.x or 5.0. The WinDK Device Driver Wizard is available for free download at BlueWater's web site.
BlueWater Systems Inc.
P.O. Box 776
Edmonds, WA 98020
206-771-3610
http://www.bluewatersystems.com/
OnDisplay introduced CenterStage, a set of tools for extracting data from web sites and integrating the data with business applications. The tools include PageAgent Builder, which allows you to define the information to be extracted, and PageAgent Engine, which extracts the data. Pricing starts at $295.00 for the desktop version, $995.00 for the developer edition, and $9995.00 for the server edition. CenterStage currently runs on Windows 95/NT.
OnDisplay
2682 Bishop Drive, Suite 215
San Ramon, CA 94583
510-355-3200
http://www.ondisplay.com/
Aonix has announced its new Aonix Development Suite, which integrates StP, an object-oriented development environment, with ObjectAda, and Ada95 development environment that produces both native and Java VM applications. Current capabilities include bidirectional navigation between items modeled in StP and their source-level implementations with ObjectAda. The Aonix Development Suite supports SPARC Solaris 2.5 and HP-UX 10.10 and 10.20. License fee for the suite is $20,000.00.
Aonix
595 Market Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-543-0900
http://www.aonix.com/
Computer Network Technology Corp. (CNT) announced an enhanced release of its Web Integrator product that includes support for the JavaBeans specification. CNT's "Green Beans" are a set of JavaBeans components for web access to legacy 3270 green screen applications.
Computer Network Technology Corp.
605 North Highway 169, Suite 800
Minneapolis, MN 55441
612-797-6000
http://www.cnt.com/
Interactive Software Engineering (ISE) released Eiffel Version 4.0 for Windows NT/95. This version of Eiffel includes a revamped interface with a Windows look-and-feel, and C++ and ODBC interfaces. Pricing for a basic configuration starts at $395.00.
Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
270 Storke Road, Suite 7
Goleta, CA 93117
805-685-1006
info@eiffel.com
http://www.eiffel.com/
Template Graphics Software has announced 3D-MasterSuite Version 3.0 for UNIX and Windows NT/95, which lets you quickly build interactive 3-D graphics applications. The 3D-MasterSuite includes Open Inventor, VRMLMaster, PlotMaster, GraphMaster, and 3D-DataMaster. Open Inventor is a general-purpose 3-D C++ framework. VRMLMaster implements VRML 2.0 as an extension to Open Inventor. PlotMaster extends OpenMaster to support vector hard copy devices. GraphMaster is a 2-D and 3-D extension to OpenInventor. The 3D-DataMaster provides scientific and engineering visualization extensions to Open Inventor.
Template Graphics Software Inc.
9920 Pacific Heights Boulevard, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92121
619-457-5359
http://www.tgs.com/
Stingray Software's Objective Toolkit 5.0 is a Visual C++ add-on library. New features in Objective Toolkit 5.0 include smart edits, an extended tree control, customizable toolbar, enhanced tab control, and support for Visual C++ 5.0. Objective Toolkit 5.0 is available for $495.00 and includes full source code.
Stingray Software Inc.
3000 Aerial Center, Suite 110
Morrisville, NC 27560
919-461-0672
http://www.stingsoft.com/
Microtec announced a version of its XRAY Pro debug suite monitor and simulator for Motorola's ColdFire and 68000 microprocessor families on Windows 95/NT hosts. The XRAY Pro debug suite is an integrated development environment that includes the XRAY debugger, a context-sensitive editor, build facilities, and a source code management interface.
Microtec
2350 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408-980-1300
http://www.mri.com/
Griffin Technologies has released DocKit, a 32-bit DLL that lets applications using TX Text Control Collection (a word-processing component also available from Griffin Technologies) to import and export Microsoft Word .DOC files. DocKit loads Word .DOC files directly into TX, and documents created in TX can be saved directly in Word .DOC format. The functions can be integrated into Visual Basic, Delphi, and C/C++ applications.
Griffin Technologies
1617 Saint Andrews Drive
Lawrence, KS 66047
800-986-6578
http://www.griftech.com/
Rogue Wave Software has announced its Serialize.h++, a C++ class library that uses the Java serialization mechanism to exchange objects and data with Java programs. This mechanism eliminates the need for Java code to make native calls to C++ code. Likewise, it eliminates the need to have the C++ and Java code on the same machine/platform. Serialize.h++ uses small helper objects called "ReaderWriters" to map C++ classes to Java classes to accomplish data exchange. A prebuilt set of ReaderWriters maps key classes in Rogue Wave's Tools.h++ class library to corresponding classes and data types in the Java core library. Serialize.h++ is only available in a source code version, and sells for $995.00 for a single-user license. It supports Windows 95/NT, HP-UX, SGI Irix, and Sun Solaris, and requires Tools.h++ 7.0.
Rogue Wave Software
850 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
800-487-3217
http://www.roguewave.com/
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