Industry-Related News & Announcements
LynuxWorks Introduces VisualLynux
LynuxWorks, Inc. has introduced VisualLynux, which integrates the Visual C++ IDE with development tools for Linux. VisualLynux is compatible with LynuxWorks BlueCat Linux and other Linux 2.2.12 distributions. VisualLynux contains BlueCat Linux debugging tools along with wizards and application windows to extend Visual C++ to Linux target processors.
VisualLynux includes the Target Wizard, an interactive tool for configuring and connecting to Linux-based target systems. After running Target Wizard, VisualLynux provides tools that automatically know how to download programs to the Linux system and execute and debug them from the Windows-based workstation. At the click of a button, VisualLynux can automatically recompile Linux applications, download newly rebuilt programs to Linux, and start the applications under control of the VisualLynux debugger.
VisualLynux costs $1,999 per license.
For more information, contact LynuxWorks, Inc., 800.255.5969 or +1.408.879.3900; fax +1.408.879.3920; www.lynuxworks.com.
EmperorLinux Announces Tiger Series
EmperorLinux has announced the Tiger Series of notebook computers. A customizable, full-function notebook, the Tiger comes equipped with Pentium III and up to 512MB RAM. The Tiger offers full support for X at a resolution of up to 1600x1200. Other options include CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or CDRW drive; 10, 20, or 32GB hard drive; and RedHat, Slack, or Mandrake.
The Tiger weighs 7.1 to 7.5 lbs. It is 12.9 inches x 10.5 inches x 1.6 inches. The Li-Ion battery provides three hours of power. An AC adapter is also available. The Tiger pricing starts at $2,100.
For more information, contact EmperorLinux, 888.651.6686 or +1.770.436.4507; fax +1.770.436.4508; [email protected]; www.emperorlinux.com.
SuSE Linux Offers KDE 2.0 Download and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390
SuSE Linux has announced the latest version of the K Desktop Environment for Linux and the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390. KDE 2 may be downloaded from http://www.suse.de/en/news/hotnews/KDE2.html.
The SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 allows enterprise customers to scale Linux from PC clients to host systems. The SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 supports IBM’s G5 and G6 servers, as well as the IBM Multiprise 3000. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server includes more than 700 application packages specifically tailored for the enterprise environment. For further information on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and how to place an order, visit http://s390.suse.de/en/.
For pricing and additional information, contact SuSE Linux, 888.875.4689 or +1.510.628.3380; fax +1.510.628.3381; [email protected]; www.suse.com.
Nematron Unveils HyperKernel
Nematron Corporation has released a trial version of HyperKernel, its real-time subsystem for Windows NT. This trial version allows developers to create an application using the standard Microsoft C/C++ compiler. The application runs for 30 minutes at a time, without being affected by the operating system, so that a developer can test the application and determine if HyperKernel is useful.
The evaluation version of HyperKernel is a fully operational product including runtime manager, hardware drivers, and API libraries.
The HyperKernel development package costs $2,995; runtime costs $495 for one, with pricing based on quantity.
For more information, contact Nematron Corporation, 800.636.2876 or +1.734.214.2000; fax +1.734.994.8074; [email protected]; www.nematron.com.
SAS Ships SAS/C Compiler and C++ Development System for OS/390 r7.00
SAS Institute Inc. has shipped SAS/C Compiler and C++ Development System for OS/390 r7.00. New features in release 7.00 include implementation of a Standard C++ and Tools++ library, implementation of Access Register Mode, and implementation of the long long datatype in accordance with the ANSI/ISO C99 Standard.
Implementation of a Standard C++ library and Tools++ library enables the developer to exploit the new features that have been adopted in the International Standard for C++. The enhancements for the C++ Development System also include implementation and support for exception handling, namespace, and run-time type identification. Support for the long long datatype is in accordance with the ANSI/ISO C99 Standard. The support includes pre-processor directives, compiler inline functions, interactive debugger support, and full run-time library support for long long format specifiers for the printf and scanf family of functions.
The SAS/C Compiler running on mainframes and servers is licensed and priced on a per CPU basis, while the SAS/C Cross-Platform Compiler running on Windows 95/98/NT, AIX, and Solaris is licensed and priced based on the total number of users. A free 60-day trial is available by contacting a SAS/C Compiler representative.
For pricing and additional information, contact SAS Institute Inc., 800.727.0025 or +1.919.677.8000; fax +1.919.677.4444; [email protected]; www.sas.com.
Cytron Research Releases Visual VCL Help v1.0
Cytron Research Ltd. has released Visual VCL Help v1.0 for Delphi and C++Builder, a program that lets VCL component authors generate help files using a point-and-click visual interface. Visual VCL Help v1.0 employs a single project to simultaneously generate both C++Builder and Delphi VCL help files, reducing the effort required to produce VCL components for the Delphi and C++Builder environments.
Designed to simplify construction of help files for different versions of Delphi and C++Builder, Visual VCL Help v1.0 builds an internal dictionary of elements obtained during the parsing of the relevant source files and of those elements manually added as references to third-party help files. This dictionary is then employed to generate all the relevant topic pages, pop-up windows, browse groups, and hyperlinks. The dictionary holds classes, class methods, class properties and events, type descriptors, standalone procedures and functions, and examples and general help topics.
Visual VCL Help v1.0 costs $57 for a single-user license. An evaluation copy is available from the company’s website.
For more information, contact Cytron Research Ltd., +44.0.141.248.5186; fax +44.0.141.248.1476; [email protected]; www.cytronresearch.co.uk.
SYWARE Announces Visual CE Supports Microsoft’s Handheld PC 2000
SYWARE, Inc. has announced that Visual CE now supports Microsoft’s platform for handheld PCs, Handheld PC 2000. Visual CE’s drag-and-drop customization enables programmers and non-programmers alike to create database and forms applications. Visual CE provides tools to capture and access information in their preferred format.
Visual CE 5.0 is available in four editions. Visual CE 5.0 Lite, the entry level, costs $79 for a single-user license. Visual CE 5.0 Personal, with full synchronization capabilities, costs $129. The Professional Edition, which provides a more advanced feature set and includes royalty-free distribution rights, costs $399. The Enterprise Edition, which includes all the features of the professional edition plus SYWARE’s Report CE software, costs $599.
For more information, contact SYWARE, Inc., +1.617.497.1300; fax +1.617.497.8729; [email protected]; www.syware.com.
ILOG Unveils ILOG Views Component Suite 4.0
ILOG has announced ILOG Views Component Suite 4.0, the latest version of their C++ GUI software library. The 2D Graphics component of ILOG Views Component Suite 4.0 extends the widely-used MFC classes by adding 2-D graphics support that makes user interfaces more intuitive and realistic. It also allows for the creation of objects that can be individually manipulated, animated, or edited, while providing developers with a graphics engine for handling re-draws, object translations, updates, navigation, and interaction.
The components in ILOG Views Component Suite 4.0 are sold separately. The base products, 2D Graphics Standard Edition and Controls, cost $2,500 and $3,500 respectively. Components for Charts, Maps, Graph Layout, and Data Access begin at $995.
For more information, contact ILOG, 800.367.4564 or +1.650.567.8000; fax +1.650.567.8001; [email protected]; www.ilog.com.
Interactive Network Technologies Offers J/View3DPro 1.2
Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. has announced J/View3DPro 1.2, its Java 3D toolkit that allows programmers to visualize, manipulate, annotate, and edit complex 3-D scenes. J/View3DPro 1.2 simplifies the task of creating interactive data visualizations. Requiring no previous Java 3D or DirectX/OpenGL programming experience, J/View3DPro 1.2 offers a higher-level API that is more intuitive than Java 3D or OpenGL, allowing developers to concentrate on the data and map it to the high-level shapes provided within the toolkit. New features in version 1.2 include support for object geometry, additional utilities to facilitate the creation of stereo display, clipping plane, polygon triangulation, and hardcopy output.
J/View3DPro costs $1,950 for a single-developer’s license. A free 30-day evaluation copy is available from the company’s website.
For more information, contact Interactive Network Technologies, Inc., 877.422.7622 or +1.713.975.7434; fax +1.713.975.1120; [email protected]; www.int.com.
TGS Introduces Amira Standard Edition and Amira Developer Edition v2.2
TGS Inc. has released the Amira Standard Edition and Amira Developer Edition (AmiraDev) v2.2. Amira is an end-user visualization software tool for dynamic data, offering the ability to interactively analyze complex 3-D data sets. The Amira Developer Edition allows users to extend the functionality of Amira to meet a developer’s specific visualization requirements. AmiraDev allows the user to add new read or write routines, new modules for visualizing data, or new modules for processing data by C++ programming. Amira offers techniques for creating complex data visualizations. Included in these techniques are direct volume rendering, iso-surfaces, segmentation, surface reconstruction, surface simplification, and generation of tetrahedral grids.
Amira v2.2 costs $4,000 and AmiraDev v2.2 costs $6,000.
For more information, contact TGS Inc., 800.544.4847 or +1.858.457.5359; fax +1.858.452.2547; [email protected]; www.tgs.com/amira.
Dragon Systems Announces Dragon NaturallySpeaking v5
Dragon Systems, Inc. has released Dragon NaturallySpeaking v5, offering increased accuracy and improved support for managing email and Internet browsing by voice command. In addition, version 5 offers a tutorial for learning dictation techniques. While using the tutorial, users can experiment and test features while becoming familiar with dictation and Dragon NaturallySpeaking v5.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking v5 comes in four editions: Dragon NaturallySpeaking Essentials v5 costs $59 for a single-user license, Standard costs $109, Preferred $199, and Preferred USB $249. Each version comes with a noise-canceling microphone, except for Preferred USB. Preferred USB includes a USB microphone for optimal use with laptop computers.
For more information, contact Dragon Systems, Inc., 800.437.2466 or +1.617.965.5200; fax +1.617.965.2374; [email protected]; www.dragonsys.com.
Global Majic Software Debuts Living Models for 3DLinX v1.5
Global Majic Software, Inc. has released new special effects Living Models for its flagship product 3DLinX. The Living Model enhancements include smoke, trails, fire, explosions, and lens flares. 3DLinX object-oriented coding allows a Living Model to be programmed with all the characteristics and behaviors needed to produce realistic actions and natural interactions within an environment.
Because it is also web-enabled, 3DLinX provides users with the ability to use Living Models that run on websites. It can be used for 3-D applications, as well as 3-D e-commerce for both Internet and intranet solutions.
For more information, contact Global Majic Software, Inc., 877.336.2542 or +1.256.922.0222; fax +1.256.922.0708; [email protected]; www.globalmajic.com.
ObjectFX Ships SpatialFX 2.5
ObjectFX Corporation has released SpatialFX 2.5, offering an architecture that ties together data from multiple sources and presents it in interactive real-time views. The component architecture includes client-side Mapping Beans, a Java technology-based class library, Java-based servlets, server-side Enterprise JavaBeans components, and a back-end application server. Among the new functional features are wide area vehicle routing and extended address geocoding, improved map display and travel databases derived from premium Geographic Data Technologies, a streamlined cross-platform installer, and updated licensing and usage counting.
Architectural upgrades include J2EE technology support by making the components and class library integrate into all aspects of a J2EE-based application architecture. This includes EJB components for the transactional layer, servlets for the web tier, and JavaBeans components for the clients.
For pricing and additional information, contact ObjectFX Corporation, 800.762.7748; fax +1.651.644.0366; [email protected]; www.objectfx.com.
TurboPower Software Announces Async Professional ActiveX
TurboPower Software Company has released Async Professional ActiveX, a COM and ActiveX version of the company’s serial and Internet communications tools. Async Professional ActiveX offers programmers a complete toolset for integrating communications capabilities into COM and ActiveX development environments including Visual Basic and Visual C++.
Features include full control over serial COM ports and built-in routines for network and Internet communications, innovative DataPackets, true VT100 terminal emulation, and access to TAPI. File transfer protocols include Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem, Kermit, and ASCII.
Async Professional ActiveX costs $399, including a 60-day, money-back guarantee.
For more information, contact TurboPower Software Company, 800.333.4160 or +1.719.260.9136; fax +1.719.260.7151; [email protected]; www.turbopower.com.
Ice Tea Group Releases Jasper
Ice Tea Group has released Jasper, an advanced COM-to-Java bridge. Jasper makes any Java class work transparently as a COM object with ASP, VB, Delphi, Centura Team Developer, VBA (Word, Excel), and any other COM compliant tool. Jasper works automatically with Microsoft JVM and Sun JVM, and it supports overloaded functions, constructors, arrays, static members, and virtual classes. Java classes do not need to be registered in the registry; thousands of Java classes are immediately available to the developer.
Jasper costs $120 for a single-developer/server license and free deployment, it may be purchased online at the company’s website.
For more information, contact Ice Tea Group, phone/fax +1.301.765.2276; [email protected]; www.iceteagroup.com.
ForeFront Unveils ForeHelp Premier 2001 Help-Authoring Suite
ForeFront, Inc. has released the ForeHelp Premier 2001 Help-Authoring Suite, a Help toolkit containing features to give the technical communicator the functionality and design capabilities necessary to create electronic documents. ForeHelp Premier 2001 authoring technology and proprietary cross-browser, cross-platform InterHelp can be used to develop application Help, catalogs, newsletters, corporate profiles, and online information, which can be delivered across a variety of media such as CD-ROMs, intranets, extranets, and websites.
ForeHelp Premier 2001 Help-Authoring Suite costs $849. This includes ForeHelp 5 and ForeHTML Pro 5, along with add-ins Index Expert, QuickContext, ForeVB 2.0 ActiveX for Help, Quick Fix, OLE for Help, and Help Buttons.
For more information, contact ForeFront, Inc., 800.357.8507 or +1.303.499.9181; [email protected]; www.ff.com.
Precise Software Technologies Offers Precise/RTCS, Precise/RTCSsim, and Precise/BlazeNet
Precise Software Technologies Inc. has released three new products. The Precise/RTCS embedded Internet stack is a high-performance stack for DSP-based applications on DSP/BIOS II, the scalable, extensible real-time kernel from Texas Instruments. Precise/RTCSsim, a version of the Precise/RTCS embedded Internet stack, runs on a Windows host in conjunction with Precise/MQXsim, a simulation tool for the Precis/MQX RTOS. The Precise/BlazeNet IEEE 1394 high-speed serial-bus stack supports Internet Protocols over IEEE 1394, which provides transparent bridging and routing between IEEE 1394 and the Internet.
A single-project license of Precise/RTCS costs $17,500, with full source code. Precise/RTCSsim costs $1,250 for a single-user license. A single project license for Precise/BlazeNet costs $30,000.
For more information, contact Precise Software Technologies Inc., 800.265.9833 or +1.613.596.2251; fax +1.613.596.6713; [email protected]; www.psti.com.
dtSearch Announces dtSearch Network and dtSearch Desktop
dtSearch Corporation has released dtSearch Network v6 and dtSearch Desktop v6. FindPlus distributed searching is an integrated feature of both products that conveniently allows a single search request to span everything from local drives to remote servers. Another feature is a built-in web indexing spider that can index and search any website, including display of retrieved XML, HTML, and PDF files with highlighted hits and embedded links and images.
Pricing for dtSearch Network starts at $800, and dtSearch Desktop costs $199. An evaluation copy is available on request.
For more information, contact dtSearch Corporation, 800.483.4637 or +1.301.263.0731; fax +1.301.263.0781; [email protected]; www.dtsearch.com.
Droplet Debuts Droplets SDK
Droplet Inc. has released the Droplets SDK, available free of charge at the company’s website. The Droplets SDK provides an object-oriented GUI toolkit for developing Droplets applications. Droplets applications can be delivered as part of a Web page and then dragged by the end user out of the browser and dropped onto the PC desktop where they continue to be accessed like local software. In addition, Droplets feature an intuitive user experience with more responsiveness than standard web technologies.
The SDK hides the complexities of network communication from the application developer, so writing a Droplets application is like writing an application with any other GUI toolkit, even though the user interface of the application runs on a remote machine. In addition, Droplets models its approach to component layout after Java AWT and Swing.
For more information, contact Droplet Inc., +1.212.691.0080; fax +1.212.691.6335; [email protected]; www.droplets.com.
General Software Introduces Firmbase
General Software, Inc. has introduced Firmbase, a patented operating environment that runs portable executables at the system firmware layer. Firmbase is a binary executable resource loaded by Embedded BIOS 2000 during Power-On Self Test (POST). Once loaded, Firmbase loads pre-built EXE and DLL images stored in the BIOS boot ROM as binary resources. Effectively serving as the Hardware Abstraction Layer for Firmbase, Embedded BIOS 2000 abstracts the programming of the SMM chipset hardware and delivers regular 1-15ms SMIs as well as other interrupts, such as I/O requests to legacy 8042 ports and to the Firmbase kernel. The Firmbase kernel, in turn, exposes an API providing threads, timers, mutex, and event semaphors; deferred procedure calls; virtual interrupts; power failure and restart notification; exception handling; multiprocessor spinlocks; memory management; and an I/O system with device and file objects.
For pricing and additional information, contact General Software, Inc., 800.850.5755 or phone/fax +1.425.576.8300; [email protected]; www.gensw.com.
Espial Offers Espial TotalIA
Espial has released Espial TotalIA, a reference platform that covers both the hardware and software required to enable device manufacturers to offer full-featured, service-enabled smart devices. Espial TotalIA includes Tao Group’s Virtual Machine, Espial’s Devicetop technology-based application and service platform, embedded Linux, Semiconductor’s Media GX Processor Board, and Espial’s Escape Java web browser.
For more information, contact Espial, +1.972.980.7195; fax +1.972.980.8743; [email protected]; www.espial.com.
