Of Interest

6475 Christie Avenue

Emeryville, CA 94608

510-922-3500

http://www.openwatcom.org/

Visual Parse++ 4.0 from Sandstone is a visual programming tool for XML parsing and processing on any platform and in multiple languages, including C++, Java, C, Delphi, and ActiveX (Visual Basic). All support is native to the chosen environment, and the C++ and Java class libraries are fully portable to any platform. New to Version 4.0 is an embedded OS API. Visual Parse++ also supports DBCS and Unicode.

Sandstone Technology Inc.

939 Coast Boulevard, Suite 4C

La Jolla, CA 92037

858-454-9404

http://www.sand-stone.com/

PerlMx, ActiveState's Perl software that works inside Sendmail, allows custom filtering for spam control, keyword scanning, or custom routing. It lets system administrators substitute Perl scripts for Sendmail recipes. PerlMx handles mail as Sendmail is dealing with it, not after, so scripts can be written to immediately bounce certain pieces of mail without using Sendmail resources. It also runs as a constant process; it does not start up and shut down for every message. PerlMx operates on the Linux and Solaris platforms.

ActiveState Tool

P.O. Box 2870 Main Station

Vancouver, BC

Canada V6B 3X4

604-484-6400

http://www.activestate.com/

Nesbitt Software has released Kenn Nesbitt's BugCollector Pro 4.0 for Windows 95/98/NT. New features include optional user security; logons and permissions; automated e-mail notifications; Microsoft Access 2000 support; and the ability to "print" reports to disk in a variety of formats, including HTML, Microsoft Word, and Adobe Acrobat. Bug Collector Pro helps organize software bugs and feature requests by status, priority, and severity. In addition, it organizes programs in a logical hierarchy, while keeping a record of user statistics as well as problem investigation, resolution, and verification. It lets screenshots and other files be attached to individual reports and includes predefined reports and graphs for instant summarizing. Bug Collector Pro exports in standard CSV format for data transfer to other spreadsheet or database programs.

Nesbitt Software

2719 West Summit Boulevard

Spokane, WA 99201

877-523-5846

http://www.nesbitt.com/

Servertec has announced the availability of iServer Version 1.9.0 -- a small, scalable, platform-independent application/ web server written entirely in Java. iServer 1.9.0 features support for SSL, AOL Server Gateway, Keystore, Certificate, File System, Country Codes, and Configuration Archive Administrator, as well as bug fixes, expanded API, and updates to documentation. iServer runs on any platform that supports Java 1.1.x or later, and is compliant with open standards.

Servertec

18 Oakwood Avenue

Kearny, NJ 07032

201-998-1048

http://www.servertec.com/

TurboPower has released Sleuth QA Suite 2, a set of tools for finding bugs, optimizing program performance, and testing projects. Included in the suite are: Sleuth CodeWatch (tracks down memory and resource leaks, tests for improper use of Windows API calls, and tests to ensure that API calls used in a program will be available on the target platform); Sleuth StopWatch (times program execution at a macro level); Sleuth Line Profiler (times program execution at the source-line level); Sleuth CoverageAnalyst (tracks the number of times individual lines of a project are executed and visually indicates the portions of the project that have not been adequately tested); and Sleuth ActionRecorder (records keyboard and mouse interactions for unattended test suites). Sleuth QA Suite 2 supports all 32-bit versions of Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, Microsoft Visual C++ 6, and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.

TurboPower Software Company

P.O. Box 49009

Colorado Springs, CO 80949-9009

719-260-9136

http://www.turbopower.com/

Jabber is a development platform for XML-based Instant Messaging. It includes a suite of development tools and a distributed client/server architecture similar to that of e-mail. Jabber is constructed around an engine for the real-time distribution and routing of XML documents. The architecture supports the addition of both "modules" and "transports," enabling nearly any application requiring real-time distribution of XML documents to be created. Linux/ UNIX, Windows 9x/NT/2000, MacOS, and Newton MessagePad clients are available. Jabber is an open-source project.

Jabber.com

1899 Wynkoop Street

Denver, CO 80202

303-308-3231

http://www.jabber.org/

Version 8.0 of Formula One for Java from Tidestone lets Excel-compatible spreadsheets be embedded in web, application, and database servers, thereby letting you generate and export richly formatted Excel spreadsheets as well as tab delimited, HTML, GIF, JPEG, and PNG files. The new version includes the ability to bind spreadsheet cells to a much wider variety of input documents, including JMS, InfoBus, XML documents, delimited text, and Excel spreadsheets. With associated XSLT documents, XML-based data sources can also be filtered and formatted. No Java code is needed to connect Formula One 8.0 to external data sources.

Tidestone Technologies Inc.

12980 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 300

Overland Park, KS 66213

913-851-2200

http://www.tidestone.com/

Ted Gruber Software has announced Version 6.0 of the Fastgraph for Windows Library. New features include extensive 3D support; high-speed rendering available through both software and hardware; optional support for DirectDraw and Direct3D; support for reading and writing AVI files; and image processing functionality including alpha blending, gamma correction, and photo inversion. It is written in assembly language, works with most popular languages and compilers, and runs under Windows 95/98/2000/NT4.

Ted Gruber Software Inc.

P.O. Box 13408

Las Vegas, NV 89112

702-735-1980

http://www.fastgraph.com/

MaxSQL is an open-source, fully transactional relational database engine from Sleepycat Software and MySQL AB. The software provides full recoverability for committed changes, manages databases up to 256 terabytes in size, accommodates many concurrent users, and survives power failure or system crashes without losing data. MaxSQL runs on Windows 95/98/NT, most UNIX variants, and Linux. The software is distributed under the GPL and is available for free download.

Sleepycat Software Inc.

1509 McGee Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94703

510-526-3972

http://www.maxsql.com/

Helix GNOME 1.0, a GUI desktop for Linux, includes more than 100 software packages and applications as well as an automatic updating system. It includes a spreadsheet, word processor, address book, calendar, personal finance manager, diagramming application, image manipulation program, multimedia utilities, and desktop games. Helix GNOME also ships with a software-development platform. All Linux distributions are supported, as well as Sun Solaris 2.

Helix Code Inc.

101 Rogers Street, Suite 214

Cambridge, MA 02142

617-679-1984

http://www.helixcode.com/

Trolltech has launched Qt/Embedded, its GUI application framework and windowing system for embedded Linux. Programs can be written in either Windows or UNIX-based environments and recompiled into embedded devices. At its smallest configuration, Qt/Embedded uses 700K of ROM. Because it does not use the X Window System, Qt/Embedded allows for features like antialiased text and alpha-blended pixmaps. All Qt releases are delivered with source code.

Trolltech

3350 Scott Boulevard

Unit 55, Suite 2

Santa Clara, CA 95054

408-219-6303

http://www.trolltech.com/

SGI has released the source code for its Open Inventor 3D graphics toolkit to the open-source community. Open Inventor is a full-featured, object-oriented framework for building interactive 3D graphics applications. It also defines a standard file format for exchanging 3D data among applications and serves as the basis for the VRML standard. Open Inventor runs on all SGI platforms that support OpenGL; ports to other platforms are in development.

SGI

1600 Amphitheater Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

650-960-1980

http://oss.sgi.com/

Celo Communications has announced CeloCom eSigner, a digital signature tool for secure Internet transactions. CeloCom eSigner is based on Public Key Infrastructure and enables digital signing of entire web pages. It is designed to provide extended digital signature capabilities for all major web browsers and ensure nonrepudiation for online transactions. The eSigner has a variety of interfaces, including plug-in, Java-applet, and API. It handles text, RTF documents, and HTML pages (including graphics and formatting), and can also perform digital signatures using smart cards, USB tokens, and biometrics. X.509 certificates from all major Certificate Authorities are supported.

Celo Communications Inc.

444 Castro Street, Suite 1001

Mountain View, CA 94041

650-938-7600

http://www.celocom.com/

PrismTech has introduced Version 2.0 of its OpenFusion Enterprise Integration Services tools, which unifies J2EE and CORBA at the services and messaging levels. Other features include support for an MQSeries bridge, integration with JNDI and LDAP directory services, load balancing with customizable algorithms, XML export/import capabilities (including selective export/import), service replication for scalability and availability, and advanced service administration tools and interfaces.

PrismTech Corp.

Burlington Center, 4th Floor

35 Corporate Drive

Burlington, MA 01803

781-685-4600

http://www.prismtechnologies.com/

WebGain is shipping VisualCafé Enterprise Edition 4.0, both alone and in WebGain Studio 4.0, an integrated browser-to-database development suite. New features include productivity wizards that streamline the development and deployment of Enterprise Java Beans and a new Java Just-in-Time compiler and debugger. VisualCafé is tightly integrated with BEA's WebLogic family of application servers, and will soon support the iPlanet application server.

WebGain

5425 Stevens Creek Boulevard

Santa Clara, CA 95051

408-517-3700

http://www.webgain.com/

MigraTEC has announced the MigrationSUITE to Windows, intended to provide a rapid method for migrating applications to 64-bit Windows on Intel's Itanium architecture. It provides analysis, decision-support, and automated source-edit capabilities to aid in C/C++ migration. The MigrationSUITE includes 64Express, which automates the upgrade process and allows applications to run in native mode on IA-64, and Visual Direct, which supports the migration of UNIX applications to Win64 using the Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler.

MigraTEC Inc.

11494 Luna Road, Suite 100

Dallas, TX 75234

972-969-0360

http://www.migratec.com/

TeamShare has added Palm synchronization to its TeamTrack web-based workflow management software. TeamTrackMobile lets users interact directly, in real time, with their TeamTrack system through a Palm-compatible browser, or to bring their assignments down to their Palm to-do list application. (The TeamTrack system provides a bug-tracking and support issue management system designed to integrate development and QA feedback.)

TeamShare Inc.

1975 Research Parkway, Suite 200

Colorado Springs, CO 80920

719-599-4444

http://www.teamshare.com/

FlashPoint Technology has announced the availability of its Digita Application SDK for digital cameras. The SDK lets third parties write applications that work in Digita-enabled cameras as after-market software products. The SDK incorporates Wind River's Tornado embedded application development toolset. It is available in Standard and Professional editions.

FlashPoint Technology Inc.

152 N. Third Street, Suite 400

San Jose, CA 95112

408-795-4900

http://www.digitadev.com/

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