This is the Linux Commercial HOWTO. It contains a listing of commercial software which is available for Linux. The Linux Commercial HOWTO doesn't contain any information on Linux distributions -- this is covered by the Distribution HOWTO.
If you contact any companies or purchase any products listed in this document, please mention the Linux Commercial HOWTO.
This document was originated by Harald Milz <Harald.Milz@Linux.org>. and then maintained by Mr. Poet
It is now maintained by Mr. Poet AND LinuxPorts <poet@linuxports.com>.
If you need to know more about the Linux Documentation Project or about Linux HOWTO's, feel free to contact the supervisor Tim Bynum <linux-howto@metalab.unc.edu>.
Tim Bynum will post the listing to several national and international newsgroups on a monthly basis. In addition, the Linux Commercial HOWTO can be found on the World Wide Web at http://commercial.cyrius.com. New versions of the Linux Commercial HOWTO are always placed at this site first, so please be sure to check if the copy you are reading is still up to date!
The Linux Commercial HOWTO is not a forum for product announcements or marketing hype; it is a service for potential customers and the whole Linux community. Resellers will not be listed; the list is for companies who produce their software themselves. Two main goals are being aimed at:
Companies and developers who are offering their products for Linux and interested in joining the Linux Commercial HOWTO are invited to fill out the following form and contact me at poet@linuxports.com.
This HOWTO contains tabular entries for each product (example follows). The entry format is similar to the Linux Software Map (LSM) entry (field/stanza lengths are arbitrary). If you want me to add your entry please keep short, otherwise I'll have to shorten your data. Furthermore, please send me plain ASCII data; no HTML, and no PostScript.
Category:
Databases, Data Visualisation, Development tools, Financial
Software, Mathematics, Multimedia, Network Management, Text
Processing, X Windows or Other Software.
Name:
The name of your application.
Description:
Short description of the package, just the basic functionality.
Distribution media:
Licensing policy:
Whatever applies. Is there a free demo or shareware version available
via FTP or WWW? Where?
OS provisions:
Kernel version, XFree86 version, Motif version, RAM, harddisk usage, etc.
Documentation:
Printed documentation, page number, online help, language.
Extra features and add-Ons:
(and their prices)
Price range:
Whatever it costs.
Vendor:
Address:
Phone: (U.S. and Canada: if you like to be reachable internationally,
please don't enter only a +1 800 or +1 900 number)
Fax:
EMail:
URL:
Contact:
This HOWTO is Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998 by Mr. Poet.
A verbatim copy may be reproduced or distributed in any medium physical or electronic without permission of the author. Translations are similarly permitted without express permission if it includes a notice on who translated it.
Short quotes may be used without prior consent by the author. Derivative work and partial distributions of the Linux Commercial HOWTO must be accompanied with either a verbatim copy of this file or a pointer to the verbatim copy.
Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however, the author would like to be notified of any such distributions.
In short, we wish to promote dissemination of this information through as many channels as possible. However, we do wish to retain copyright on the HOWTO documents, and would like to be notified of any plans to redistribute the HOWTOs.
We further want that all information provided in the HOWTOs is disseminated. If you have questions, please contact Tim Bynum, the Linux HOWTO coordinator, at linux-howto@metalab.unc.edu.
This HOWTO is not actually a HOWTO in the sense of the Linux Documentation Project. Instead, it is an instrument to investigate the commercial Linux opportunity and to list applications which were already ported and marketed in a native Linux version. As a software vendor, you probably know that you can alternatively offer Linux users a statically linked SCO version of your application which would probably run under the iBCS2 emulator (albeit with a small performance penalty and higher memory requirements). Such applications will not be listed here.
I will not select nor deselect any particular product. Instead, everyone who wants to have her product included will be serviced. However, I reserve the right to shorten individual entries to keep things in shape.
If you don't find a particular product or vendor in this list, this is probably due to one of the following reasons:
In any case, please get in contact if you feel someone's missing; also if you discover any errors in the file.
Sometimes two vendor's addresses are mentioned in the ``Vendor:'' field. In these cases I received the information from the German subsidiary/distributor. The original manufacturer's address is always mentioned first.
There's another document which covers commercial Linux software. It is maintained by Alan Cox <Alan.Cox@Linux.org> and can be found at http://www.uk.linux.org/LxCommercial.html.
In addition, feel free to visit the Linux Mall where you can order most products presented in this HOWTO.
Copyright © 1996 iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin
Courtesy of iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin!
People keep asking me ``When is Linux going to be ready for the commercial market''. I guess the first thing to discuss is what is meant by "commercial" in this context.
Some CD-ROM vendors have put the word "commercial" in their name, only to have the technical people think their product is good only for use by banks and insurance companies. Other people look at their product with disdain and say that ``Linux is not commercial quality'', because it is missing some feature they need, or they feel it is unstable (usually without ever trying it even one time).
To me, the word ``commercial'' has lost as much meaning in the marketplace as some of the other buzzwords:
In the old days of computing the commercial market was banks, insurance companies and business-oriented facilities where the use of COBOL or RPG was the mainstream. The technical market was scientific, engineering and manufacturing where FORTRAN and assembly language was used. Somewhere along the way the term ``commercial'' seems to have gotten twisted around to mean ``ready for the mass market'', versus ``ready for hackers''.
For the purpose of this article I will take the second meaning, and address whether I think Linux is ready for commercial purposes rather than the hobbyist and hacker market, and ready for the mass market rather than limited markets.
For those of you who hate reading long articles, or who are short on time, let me give you my conclusion right now. Then you can go out and drink beer or other fun activities:
``Yes, Linux is ready for the commercial market...in some cases''.
In order for an operating system to be ready for the mass market it must have several attributes:
But you can eliminate all of these considerations in today's mass market if only one thing is true:
You have lots of applications.
after all, there would not be 170,000,000 DOS systems in the world if any of the others had to be true.
I almost added that is has to be economical, but history has actually proven me wrong on that. If people added up the total cost of ownership, then Apple would certainly have won over the PC. But people ignore the human costs of someone else (or even themselves) beating their head against the wall trying to get something to work, or the system crashing repeatedly, or the fact that the one keystroke they can hit the easiest (through practice) is
<CTRL><ALT><DEL>
Now what causes this plethora of applications for an operating system? Ease of programming? Good software development tools? Features inside the operating system? Stability of the interfaces over time?
The answer is ``none of these''. While all these attributes may help convince an application developer to port, the one overriding issue is volume of the operating system platform. Again, if MSDOS were compared to MacOS, or even to UNIX and volume were not taken into account, we know which two operating systems would have the most applications, and they would not be from Microsoft.
While it is true that several Linux vendors are working on getting these applications for the mass market (read this " your mother and father"), the number of applications that run on Microsoft platforms have been estimated as high as 35,000. SunOS has an estimated 10,000 applications, with other `commercial UNIX'' systems (including Solaris 2.x) much lower in number. It will take the Linux vendors a long time to get the number of applications necessary to hit the really large mass market, particularly if they did not depend on iBCS2 and DOS/Windows compatibility (which could supply a fair number of current applications), but depended on ``native'' Linux applications.
So applications are king (and queen) for the mass market, and installed base (volume) or the promise of explosive growth (volume) is the key to these. But is the mass market the only ``commercial'' market? The answer is ``no''. The mass market is a subset (albeit very large one) of the commercial market. So let's look at what the rest of the commercial market needs. We will look at this by segmenting the market into:
When I speak of turnkey systems I typically mean a computer system that has one specific (or not so specific) application that runs on it. Examples of turnkey systems are point-of-sale terminals, reservation systems, CAD systems, etc. But in a larger sense, other applications such as Web servers, nameservers (such as BIND), etc. could also be considered ``turnkey'', since they have only a few necessary programs that have to run on the system.
Usually turnkey systems are ones that an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) or Value Added Reseller (VAR) will chose a hardware system, an operating system, port an application to it, then duplicate that system 500 to 1000 times without change to the basic application. These ISVs and VARs will try to chose the lowest cost solution to fit their customer's needs.
Linux is perfect for these types of applications. The operating system is stable enough for the developer to port their application and test the application fully. Once it is fully tested and stable, the entire package is ``frozen'' and duplicated any number of times for the end customer.
Since the operating system may be freely copied, and it runs on inexpensive hardware, their variable costs are minimal. Even a developer who is not familiar with the Linux system (so they need help getting it running on a platform) will quickly pay back the porting and system programmer costs they accrue by not paying $200-$500. per license for the operating system. Plus they have all the source code for the entire system, in case they run into trouble later on. You can buy a lot of Linux support for $200-$500K.
As I said before, I include Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as part of this ``turnkey'' environment, for both external internet and internal internet. Why overload your expensive, high-powered, highly complex general-purpose server to do Web serving when a smaller, simpler box can offload it? Why not run your NIS slaves on a Linux box? Or perhaps your BIND server?
In the early days of Digital UNIX (known then as DEC OSF/1) we did not have very many applications. In fact we had none. The marketing staff came to me with sad faces asking if it was possible to sell an operating system that had no applications. I invented a term called ``Turbocharging'', which allowed a Digital UNIX system using the speed and power of the Alpha processor (as well as the throughput of our networking devices) to offload NIS, NFS, BIND and other services from people's overloaded, slower SPARC machines. We also showed people how they could use the rsh(1) command to allow the Alpha to do a portion of their very CPU intensive processing while delivering the result back to the SPARCs on their desk. This allowed the SPARCs to work more on applications and less on the other ``system administration'' tasks that they were performing. We sold lots of Digital UNIX systems based solely on executing those tasks. Today, of course, Digital UNIX has a lot more applications, and particularly very large memory databases that are extremely fast. But the same principle applies. The database engine runs on the Alpha system, supplying data to the slower SPARC engines as a ``Turbocharger''. I could see Linux systems headed in the same direction, following the same path.
Very large customers often have their own home-grown applications which they need to deploy across a wide network of people. Or they can have management dictate a certain suite of applications, which then can be ported to Linux. Since these customers are so large, their operating system costs are huge, and utilizing the savings using the Linux operating system they may completely cover the expenses of porting their software.
Or these very large customers may ``influence'' their layered product providers to port to the Linux platform. Finally, they may even change some of their computing habits (to use existing programs) if the cost savings are enough to warrant it.
Companies like Caldera are creating a suite of applications and approaching these very large customers to show them the operating system savings that they can achieve if they switch to Linux. While it is true that every application the customer could ever conceive of running may not run on Linux, by using the native applications, the iBCS2 applications, the DOSEMU applications, and applications that run under WABI, a nice suite of applications could be built to solve their needs.
Finally there are what I call ``specialized markets''. Markets that might buy Linux simply because it is Linux, and not because of the application suites that it provides.
In the education field there are three main markets:
The administrative part is the ``business'' aspect of the market. They are looking for easy-to-use systems that can also handle complex administrative tasks that might cover a community the size of a small city.
The ``campus computing'' is the supply of computing power and service for majors of all types, web services and research into non-computer science (for example, molecular modeling) research.
Finally there is computer science education, both on the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as research into computer science.
While the administrative sub-market typically relies more on shrink-wrapped applications, the other two rely on them to a lesser extent (with the computer science education market relying the least). The other two markets can utilize a lot more of the freeware and shareware applications that are already ported to Linux. This gives them a very low-cost (from a software perspective) platform while allowing them to see and (often) modify the source code for the applications they use.
More importantly, in the computer science research area, the results of the research can be freely distributed to others working in the field, or even published as source code to illustrate the results. This can not be done with ``commercial'' operating systems.
Some universities are utilizing Linux more and more to run their campus. From a ``commercial'' standpoint, their needs are the same as many large businesses. Students graduating from college will know about Linux, and bring the word to their future employers.
Finally, there is the computer hobbyist and software developer market. I relate this market to the amateur radio market. In the amateur radio market the radio is often used to simply talk to other people, but at the same time the users investigate new ways of using radio, and improving it. Many electrical engineers started out as amateur radio users. So it can be with Linux, since for the first time both the prices of the hardware and the prices of the operating system source code are within the reach of mortal people.
In conclusion, I feel that Linux does have the items needed for several types of ``commercial'' uses:
What Linux really needs is for the ``commercial'' community to understand what is going on, and to embrace it where it will be useful. This will increase the volume numbers even more, which will attract more applications.
Along these lines I would like to ``advertise'' a joint effort of USENIX and Linux International to happen in January of 1997 in Anaheim, California of the United States. There will be a joint USENIX/Linux development conference, and while a certain part of the Linux conference will be oriented towards the development of the Linux operating system, the bulk of the conference will be oriented towards application developers and marketing people, to better understand the Linux operating system and how to sell their applications and services into the Linux market. We hope to show ISVs, VARs, resellers and distributors how they can make money by selling their applications and services on top of the Linux operating system.
Jon ``maddog'' Hall is a Senior Leader in the Digital Equipment Corporation UNIX group. He has been in the computer industry for twenty-five years, UNIX for sixteen years and has guided the emergence of six operating systems, including Alpha Linux. He has an MS in Computer Science.
ASWedit is a commercial, comprehensive and easy to use HTML and text editor for X Window System and Motif. It offers three independent modes: a plain text editing mode and two context-sensitive, validating modes for authoring of HTML documents as used on the Internet and Intranets. The two HTML modes are: standard and experimental.
3.5" diskettes, 4-mm DAT, 1/4" and 8mm tapes, Internet (FTP).
Per machine basis. The number of users that can run the software on the licensed computer is unlimited.
A version of the program, called asWedit, is available for free for students and staff in education and charitable non-profit organizations, and for free evaluation by individuals and commercial organizations. It is available via FTP from many archives. See http://www.advasoft.com/asWedit.html for details.
Linux 1.2.13 or higher (ELF), X11R6, Motif 2.0 (not required if the statically linked version is used), 5 MB of RAM, 1.5-3.5 MB hard disk usage.
Printed documentation, online help, language: User's Guide (44 pages), HTML 3.2 extended, Reference Manual (89 pages), HTML 3.2 experimental, Reference Manual (106 pages). Online, context sensitive, hypertext help - 560 KB. Localized resource files are available for the following languages: English (default), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Commands and messages are localized for each language but the online help and documentation are only available in English.
The license includes free product upgrades by FTP for a period of one year.
Can work with external Unix filters. Highly customizable. Supports four different browsers for previewing.
July, 1995.
World wide.
US$149. Quantity discounts are available.
AdvaSoft Ltd.
30 Hatch Road
London SW16 4PN
England
+44 181 251 0033
+44 181 251 0011
Andre Stochniol
August 30, 1997.
Empress DataWEB allows users to easily and rapidly build dynamic, interactive, database-fed web applications. No special programming language needs to be learned; developers of applications simply can use HTML with the Empress extensions for accessing the RDBMS.
CD-ROM.
Please contact vendor for evaluation copies.
16 MB of RAM; 60 MB harddisk space (additional requirements: web browser required).
Online help.
Full technical support available, priced separately.
Extra features such as an HTTP server and other tools to facilitate the creation of web applications come with the software package.
April, 1996.
World wide.
Please contact vendor.
Empress Software Inc.
6401 Golden Triangle Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
U.S.A.
3100 Steeles Avenue East
Markham, ON L3R 8T3
Canada
+1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 8888 (Canada)
+1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 1668 (Canada)
Dick Naedel
August 4, 1997.
EZ-EDIT is an online HTML editor, which allows users to completly manage their web site through a web browser (edit, create, upload, rename/move/copy, create and remove directories)! EZ-EDIT is the only editor which features the "File Filter" which allows you to specify what file types are allowed on your system. Create the look you want by editing EZ-EDIT's 16 template files with over 80 tags. Also allows you to set disk space limits! Supports form based file uploads, also includes a Java page creater. All administration is also done through a web browser.
3.5" diskettes, Internet (FTP and WWW).
A free demo is available from our web site. Demo version is unlocked to full version with registration key.
Linux/Intel.
Online HTML user and admin manuals (English only).
Update service, support (via EMail).
September 17, 1997.
World wide.
US$149.95.
Relative Web
P. O. Box 351
Saylorsburg, PA 18353-0351
U.S.A.
+1 610 381 3072
+1 610 381 3072
John Bergeron
October 6, 1997.
LinkScan operates on Unix an NT servers on both Internets and Intranets, LinkScan can test over 40,000 links per hour because it is the only link checker that uses multi-threaded simultaneous processing. LinkScan has been tested on web sites with over 45,000 pages and more than 80,000 links. LinkScan also produces two revolutionary types of maps of web sites. LinkScan's SiteMap enables the user to produce a site map that includes every link on a web site arranged in a hierarchical format that resembles a book's table of contents. LinkScan's TapMap is an expandable and collapsible site map that allows viewers to tap down through the various and multiple levels of a web site to quickly and easily navigate and explore the web site by tapping on a few control icons.
Internet (WWW).
A license is required for each server on which the product is used. Free evaluation copies of LinkScan may be downloaded from our web site.
Requires Perl 5 or higher.
Complete documentation and a comprehensive FAQ may be read at our web site and/or downloaded.
This product is continuously updated and maintained. Prompt responses to all inquiries and problems via EMail or telephone as required. No fees for support.
January 7, 1997.
World wide.
US$495.
Electronic Software Publishing Corporation
1504 #8-00200 Main Street
Gardnerville, NV 89410-5273
U.S.A.
Ken Churilla
November 6, 1997.
TalentSoft Web+ is a development tool dedicated to developing web-based client/server applications without writing low level CGI programs. Web+ enables rapid and easy creation of highly functional web pages which integrates with databases, file systems, EMail, Java applets, your legacy applications (EXEs, DLLs), and communicates with other TCP/IP applications using sockets. Web+ works with all popular web severs, databases, and operating systems and integrates closely with Netscape web servers via NSAPI and CGI. Web+ also acts as a multi-threaded web middleware that integrates the web servers with databases, EMail, TCP/IP sockets, and other applications. Please check out the "Teach Me Web+" link on our web site for the coolest interactive tutorial with hands on exercises. We are proud to be the first to provide dynamic code interpretation on the Internet! Now you may start writing and running your own web application without buying or installing Web+.
3.5" diskettes, CD-ROM and Internet (FTP and WWW).
Free evluation copy available at http://www.TalentSoft.com. Trial out version notices displayed by will not time out.
16 MB RAM, 5 MB HD.
Both printed documentation (about 200 pages) and HTML online help. English only.
Free EMail, web+ conference, and phone support. Training available for a fee.
May 1, 1997.
USA, UK, Hong Kong, China, Singapore.
US$195 to $1295.
TalentSoft / Talent Information Management, LLC.
900 Nicollet Mall, Suite 700
Minneapolis, MN 55402
U.S.A.
P.O. Box 2997
Minneapolis, MN 55402
U.S.A.
+1 612 338 8900
+1 612 904 0010
Victor Tong, Ian Gorrie, Jeff Persche, Tony Tong
August 8, 1997.
VirtuFlex 1.1 is a web application builder for adding dynamic functionality to a web site. VirtuFlex provides the power to transform web sites into live applications by integrating databases, fax, EMail and pagers with the web. VirtuFlex provides sophisticated functionality that can be added to web sites by any HTML developer. VirtuFlex is reusable, modular, easy to use, high performance and provides DB connectivity almost any database. The componenets of VirtuFlex are a macro language, macro processor, DB server and pre-built template packs.
Internet (WWW).
VirtuFLex is licensed on a per domain basis. A free evaluation copy is available on our web site.
Linux ELF binary format (1.2.x kernels or higher). VirtuFlex runs on standard Unix workstations with 8 MB of RAM minimum, 16 MB recommended.
Available for download from our web site, English.
Basic support four hours. Other support options available - call for details.
Pre-built Template-Paks come free with VirtuFlex for shopping carts, threaded discussion groups, database application builder, quizzes and surveys, web spiders and banner rotators. Additional Template-Paks are added on a regular basis.
1996.
World wide through UniDirect, Soft Export and the Internet.
US$995, educational discounts available.
VirtuFlex Software Corp.
930 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.
+1 617 497 8006
+1 617 492 0486
Dan Housman
March 17, 1997.
One of the worlds strongest prolog development environments.
CD-ROM and Internet (WWW).
Manuals supplied on CD-ROM, online help and intro.html lots of examples.
EMail based.
1984.
World wide.
Prolog Development Center
H.J. Holstvej 3-5A
DK-2605 Broendby
Dankmark
+45 36 72 10 22
+45 36 72 02 69
Claus Witfelt <witfelt@pdc.dk>
November 28, 1997.
Online conferencing server for the Intranet and Extranet and world wide web providing discussion forums and chat rooms. Web Crossing is a groupware application server, accessible with any web browser, via most web servers. It makes communication more efficient and productive than newsgroups or EMail mailing lists.
Internet.
commercial; fully-functional demo available.
US$995, unlimited users.
Lundeen & Associates
P.O. Box 2900
Alameda, CA 94501
U.S.A.
+1 510 521 5855
+1 510 522 6647
August 16, 1997.
ThreadTrack and WebTailor are lightweight browser and server independent CGI script packages, developed under Linux, that add state to web servers. ThreadTrack is used for tracking the activity of individual visitors to a web site, and WebTailor is used to dynamically modify the content of a web site in response to a visitor's profile or actions.
WebTailor uses a simple server-side scripting language to modify the site's content. The language, targeted to non-technical web designers, is easy to learn and use. For the more technical, the CGI interface has been expanded to enable parameter passing on a per visitor basis between scripts running on different pages.
ThreadTrack tags individual visitors to a web site with a unique identifier that remains with them for their visit. Each visitor's session is recorded click-by-click, so a database of aggregate and individual activity is available for reports. Comprehensive reporting is included, and the data (dBase III) is easily transferrable to custom reporting packages.
Internet (WWW).
30 Day fully functional eval available from http://www.webthreads.com
Any version of Linux on x86, a.out and ELF.
Web site and online provided with the package.
EMail support.
Msql interface. Registration site management addition.
June, 1996.
World wide.
ThreadTrack starts at US$295. WebTailor starts at US$895.
Webthreads, L.L.C.
1919 Gallows Road, 10th floor
Vienna, VA 22182
U.S.A.
+1 703 848 9027
+1 703 848 2444
Gavin Sutcliffe
March 18, 1997.
Based on advanced B+tree (balanced) algorithm, c-tree Plus API handles all aspects of database I/O. Program single user or multi-user non-server applications royalty free and migrate existing c-tree Plus applications to the FairCom Server by recompiling.
3.5" diskettes and CD-ROM.
c-tree Plus is licensed on a per programmer basis. Single-user, multi-user and multi-user non-server royalty-free distribution. Contact FairCom for possible restrictions: general purpose database and application development systems prohibited.
3 MB hard drive space; 128 KB of RAM.
Printed manuals distributed with product; full online documentation with CD-ROM, available in English and Japanese.
Three months of full technical support from purchase date. Unlimited technical support and product updates available thereafter with c-tree Plus maintenance program.
October, 1995.
World wide.
US$895 includes source.
FairCom
4006 W. Broadway
Columbia, MO 65203-0100
U.S.A.
+1 573 445 6833
+1 573 445 9698
Tamra Brown <tami@faircom.com>
FairCom Europe
Via Patrioti 6
I-24021 Albino
Italy
+39 35 773 464
+39 35 773 806
FairCom Japan
Ikeda Bldg. #3 4F, 112-5
Komei-chou, Tsu-city MIE 514
Japan
+81 059 229 7504
+81 059 249 723
FairCom do Brasil Ltda.
+55 11 3872 9802
+55 11 3862 1752
August 7, 1997.
Empress for Linux is a multimedia RDBMS for members of the rapidly growing Linux developer community. Key components of the package include the powerful Empress RDBMS as well as dynamic SQL, Empress 4GL, Empress GUI Builder for rapidly developing graphical front-ends to Empress applications, a WWW HTML toolkit, and a grahical point and click interface to the Empress RDBMS development environment. A streamlined, single-user version of this product, Personal Empress for Linux, is available also.
3.5" diskettes.
Free demos are available via FTP. Must contact vendor.
Empress GUI Builder requires OSF Motif version 1.2.4 or 2.0. 16 MB RAM. 80 MB Disk Space. 486 CPU or better.
Printed documentation.
Full technical support available, priced separately.
Other features which are components of the package include shared libraries, shared memory, math library functions and a C language interface.
December, 1995.
World wide.
Product is priced by number of concurrent users. Please contact vendor.
Empress Software Inc.
6401 Golden Triangle Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
U.S.A.
3100 Steeles Avenue East
Markham, ON L3R 8T3
Canada
+1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 8888 (Canada)
+1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 1668 (Canada)
Dick Naedel
August 4, 1997.
Database Engine.
Some Features: Remote databases, client/server, automatic consistency check, incremental backup, mirroring, shadowing, distributable database, journaling, versions, RISE, object oriented DBMS, implements relational model three tier client/server architecture, cooperative servers, language independent user-configurable (English, Spanish, Portuguese).
4/8 mm. DAT, 150/525 MB tape. Academic version available from:
Commercial. Free version for Linux available.
10 MB disk space.
Available in PostScript and HTML.
Contact essentia-info@inter-soft.com for more information.
SQL Server, ODBC Interface for Windows, JDBC Interface, User servers.
1993.
Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and USA.
Linux version for free (with some restrictions). Other prices available on request.
InterSoft Argentina S.A.
Córdoba 883 9th. Floor
Capital Federal (1054)
Argentina
+54 1 318 8900
+54 1 318 8997
August 4, 1997.
High performance, multi-threaded, transaction processing server. Features include: industrial quality transaction processing, including full commit and rollback; intermediate save points and complete logging; automatic log management; restart/disaster recovery; user passwords; access security and online administration; deadlock detection/resolution; read/write locks at the record/individual key level; more.
3.5" diskettes and CD-ROM.
The FairCom Server is licensed on a per machine basis. Contact FairCom for specific licensing questions.
2 MB of RAM.
Printed manuals distributed with product; full online documentation with CD-ROM, available in English and Japanese.
Three months of full technical support from purchase date. Unlimited technical support and product updates available thereafter with Server maintenance program.
October, 1995.
World wide.
US$445-$6795 depending upon platform and number of users. Special licensing and OEM agreements available.
FairCom
4006 W. Broadway
Columbia, MO 65203-0100
U.S.A.
+1 573 445 6833
+1 573 445 9698
Tamra Brown <tami@faircom.com>
FairCom Europe
Via Patrioti 6
I-24021 Albino
Italy
+39 35 773 464
+39 35 773 806
FairCom Japan
Ikeda Bldg. #3 4F, 112-5
Komei-chou, Tsu-city MIE 514
Japan
+81 059 229 7504
+81 059 249 723
FairCom do Brasil Ltda.
+55 11 3872 9802
+55 11 3862 1752
August 7, 1997.
INFORMIX-SE is an SQL-based database engine for small- to medium-range applications. It is the ideal solution for businesses that want the power of SQL without complex database administration requirements. With over a decade of proven reliability, INFORMIX-SE has a strong track record among Unix database servers.
INFORMIX-ESQL/C: Productivity, flexibility, portability, and standards are what programmers can achieve with the use of INFORMIX-ESQL for C. Developers can continue to use these familiar third-generation languages (3GLs) for developing applications and gain the advantage of using SQL to access data from those applications. Developers don't have to build their own database functions saving development time and effort.
CD-ROM and Internet (FTP).
Free development license. Runtime Licenses must be purchased separately. Information on both is available at http://www.informix.com/informix/solutions/linux/lx.html.
The database server process requires 1.2 MB to run, and can be installed with 6 MB of disk space.
Online manuals.
Annual technical support and software maintenance contracts.
TBD.
July 22, 1998.
World wide.
To go along with your free development license, Informix offers attractively priced maintenance contracts through Informix-Assurance: http://www.informix.com/informix/services/csp/assurance/assurance.htm
Informix Software, Inc.
sales@informix.com, http://www.informix.com/cgi-bin/contact.pl
September 21, 1998.
Relational Database Management System
3.5" diskettes.
Unlimited runtime included.
Printed manual, examples.
EMail, fax or phone.
1993.
World wide.
US$149-$395.
Just Logic Technologies
P.O. Box 63050, 40 Commerce Street
Nun's Island, Montreal, QC H3E 1V6
Canada
+1 514 761 6887
+1 514 642 6480
Luc Vallieres
August 5, 1997.
KE Texpress is a high-speed client server database engine that supports object-oriented, relational and free text data structures and operations. It is particularly suited to applications with large data sets, complex operations and large numbers of concurrent users. KE Texpress is used for a wide variety WWW database applications. Vertical applications include collections management, library systems, vital statistics, archives, text retrieval and records management.
Internet (FTP and WWW) and tape.
Commercial product licensed by number of concurrent users. A 30 day free trial is available at our web site.
Linux ELF and a.out libraries. Requires about 30 MB disk space. Runs on over 20 other varieties of Unix and Windows NT.
Printed and HTML documentation is available.
Annual technical support (EMail, fax and phone) and software maintenance contracts.
KE Software has an extensive consulting service assisting clients to develop KE Texpress database applications.
1984.
USA, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Malaysia.
US$2,000 to $100,000+.
KE Software Inc.
303-601 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V5Z 4C2
Canada
+1 604 877 1960
+1 604 877 1961
Andrzej Kowalski
August 4, 1997.
Qddb is fast, powerful and flexible database software that runs on Unix. Some of its features include: Tcl/Tk programming interface, easy to use, you can have a DB application completely up and, running in about 5 minutes, using nxqddb. CGI interface for quick and easy online databases and guestbooks. Fast, and powerful searching capability. Report generator. Barcharts and graphs. Mass mailings with EMail, letters and postcards.
3.5" diskettes, tape and Internet (FTP and WWW).
GNU and Commercial versions available.
GNU version comes with source code. Binary packages available for Linux, FreeBSD, and BSD/OS(BSDI) --- RPM and buildkit format.
Online documentation and PostScript files available. Printed manuals also available upon request.
User and programmer support available along with upgrade contracts.
Tcl/Tk programming interface, CGI interface, report generator, many useful free and commercial applications built with Qddb.
1996.
World wide.
See http://www.hsdi.com/orders
Herrin Software Development, Inc.
41 South Highland Avenue
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
U.S.A.
+1 606 886 8202
+1 606 277 3239
Eric Herrin
November 4, 1997.
Low-level high performance database engine with C API and C++ class library, for embedding in applications. This database is used in thousands of leading commercial applications. Includes source for C++ class library that encapsulates database navigation and object storage and retrieval into C++ classes, adding an object-oriented interface. Supports multiple database models, including relational, network model, and combined.
3.5" diskettes and tape.
Pay for development license, distribute runtime copies freely.
Extensive documentation available from Raima Corporation, dealing with all aspects of database, C API and C++ class library.
Available from Raima Corporation on annual basis, raining available.
Windows GUI Report Writer.
1984, originally called db_VISTA.
Direct in the USA, use distributors internationally - Germany, England, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Estonia, Argentina, Columbia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Finland, Taiwan, other countries.
RDM++ Database Module is US$995 for single user, US$2,395 for multi-user. System is US$1,395 for single user, US$3,395 for multi-user (System includes RDM++ database, QUERY SQL query tool and REVISE database restructuring tool). All versions available with source code for extra cost.
Depends on machine class; lowest is US$3,995 without system utilities; US$6,195 with system utilities.
Raima Corporation
4800 Columbia Center
701 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
+1 800 327 2462, +1 206 515 9477
+1 206 748 5200
Dave Morse
March 18, 1997.
The Empress Embedded RDBMS is an embedded systems developer's toolkit. The RDBMS engine is fast, compact and easy-to-embed. Additionally, this package possesses superior bulk object handling capabilities. Embedded Empress RDBMS is Internet ready with a JDBC/ODBC bridge available.
3.5" diskettes.
Please contact vendor for evaluations copies.
32 MB of RAM, 60 MB disk disk space.
Printed documentation.
Full technical support available, priced separately.
Extra features included with the toolkit are Empress Report Writer and enhanced Internet capabilities (ability to use Java applets, etc.) via the HTML toolkit.
January, 1997.
World wide.
Starting at US$1000 for PCs, US$4000 for typical workstations, US$16,000 for mid-range servers.
Empress Software Inc.
6401 Golden Triangle Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
U.S.A.
3100 Steeles Avenue East
Markham, ON L3R 8T3
Canada
+1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 8888 (Canada)
+1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 1668 (Canada)
Dick Naedel
August 4, 1997.
SOLID Server is a database engine for new applications and products. It is extremely easy to set up, and has a small footprint. SOLID Server is standards-compliant and full of power. It is perfectly suited for distributed use in countless copies. Its maintenance is care-free, requiring minimal or no administrator attention.
3.5" diskettes and Internet (FTP and WWW).
Copy-protected.
At least 2 MB RAM, recommended are 8 MB; harddisk about 3-4 MB.
English manuals and online help. WWW.
Available.
1994.
World wide.
SOLID Desktop US$99, SOLID Server US$199/seat, SOLID Web Engine US$495.
Solid Information Technology Ltd
Huovitie 3
FIN-00400 Helsinki
Finland
+358 9 477 4730
+358 9 477 47 390
August 4, 1997.
Velocis Database Server is designed for database application developers who are looking for a high performance client/server or web database engine. Velocis is a scaleable SQL client/server database engine that provides a rich set of architectural choices and APIs including ANSI SQL, SQL C-API, low-level C-API, C++ class libraries, and support for custom APIs. Unlike typical relational client/server database products, Velocis supports both relational and pointer-based network model databases in any combination as well as processing on either side of the client/server equation. The choices of multiple operating platforms, APIs, processing locality (client or server), and database model can be mixed and combined to satisfy the performance requirements of virtually any application.
3.5" diskettes and tape.
Pay for development license. Runtimes are requires to distribute applications.
Extensive documentation available from Raima Corporation, dealing with all aspects of database, C API and C++ class library.
Available from Raima Corporation on annual basis, raining available.
Windows GUI Report Writer, Raima Object Manager.
1993, originally called Raima Database Server.
World wide.
1-8 users: US$1,995, 1-25 users: US$3,995, unlimited: US$8,995.
Raima Corporation
4800 Columbia Center
701 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
+1 800 327 2462, +1 206 515 9477
+1 206 748 5200
Dave Morse
November 4, 1997.
The YARD company offers the following products:
CD-ROM and Internet (FTP).
License number and activation key for each product and installation with user dependent licenses. A Private Edition (limited to 1 user and 5 MB database) for non commercial private use and for evaluation is available at ftp://ftp.yard.de.
Linux ELF version; RAM usage: 1 MB (minimum) for shared memory, 500 KB per user. Disk usage: YARD-SQL 10 MB, YARD-ESQLC 1 MB, YARD-ODBC 1.5 MB and YARD-X 5 MB.
Printed 600 pages reference and users guide in German. English documentation is available only as PostScript file.
Upon request.
All products also available for other widely distributed Unix systems (e.g. SCO Unix, SPARC Solaris, IBM, HP, SGI).
January, 1994.
Contact YARD Software GmbH for information about resellers.
Upon request.
YARD Software GmbH
Wikingerstr. 18
D-51107 Köln
Germany
+49 221 98664 99
Thomas Schonhoven <thomass@yard.de>
August 4, 1997.
IDL is powerful software for data analysis, visualization, and application development. IDL's features include flexible I/O, object-oriented programming, 2D plotting, 3D graphics, volume rendering, image processing, mathematics, statistics, a cross-platform GUI toolkit, plus a high-level, array-oriented programming language. Use IDL for visual data analysis, rapid prototyping, or application development. IDL programs, including their graphical user interfaces, are portable across Linux, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT, Mac, PowerMac, Unix and VMS.
The IDL-Student Version is a functionality-limited version of IDL 5.0. It is designed to compliment IDL-teaching lab environments and give students access to software specifically designed for technical curriculums including physics, astronomy, engineering, earth sciences, medical sciences and computer science. For more information or to place an order, visit our web site.
CD-ROM and Internet (FTP).
Free demo CD-ROM available or download via FTP.
IDL 5.0 for Linux is built using the Linux 2.0.18 kernel and the Red Hat version 4.0 Linux distribution.
3000+ pages of documentation on paper and hypertext online help.
Customer support service, maintenance/update service, training and consulting are available. In addition, a Usenet group is devoted to IDL.
ENVI: remote sensing image processing application, DataMiner: ODBC database access, HDF, CDF, netCDF support, animation, volume slicer, high resolution mapping.
May, 1997.
Ask vendor.
Contact vendor/distributor.
Research Systems, Inc.
2995 Wilderness Place
Boulder, CO 80301
U.S.A.
+1 303 786 9900
+1 303 786 9909
November 5, 1997.
A flexible and powerful 3D graphics engine controlled by a high-level interpreted language called SMPL. With it, you can learn about 3D, write your own interactive simulations, animations, and ray-tracings. You can even write your own shaders, customize procedural objects and motions, and use up to 64 computers at once for net rendering. Includes executables for Windows 95, Windows NT x86 and Alpha, SGI Irix and Linux.
CD-ROM, ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge.
Very flexible. The owner is allowed to run as many copies as they can, on any platforms. Demo version, full documentation and sample images and scripts available on our web site.
Supports kernel 1.2.8 or 1.3.15. Non-ELF, a.out executable (QMAGIC). 16 MB of RAM minimum recommended. 7 MB free disk space recommended.
In HTML on CDROM.
Private news server, EMail. Patches on web site.
Everything included on one CD-ROM.
August, 1996.
World wide, direct and through dealers.
US$99
Syndesis Corporation
235 South Main Street
Jefferson, WI 53549
U.S.A.
+1 414 674 5200
+1 414 674 6363
John Foust <jfoust@threedee.com>
November 3, 1997.
Tecplot is interactive data visualization software for XY plotting, 2D and 3D mesh, contour, vector, scatter, and shade plots. For more information, see the Amtec Engineering web site.
CD-ROM and Internet (FTP).
Either personal licenses (node locked) or network licenses. Evaluation copies available on CD-ROM or by anonymous FTP.
12 MB minimum, Linux 1.2 or newer (available in both statically linked and dynamically linked versions). Use the statically linked version if your system does not have Motif 1.2 or newer installed. 32 MB RAM is recommended.
Printed User's and Reference Manuals, full online help. English.
Update and technical support included with license for first three months. Extra charge (ask for EUSS) after that. Training courses available.
V7 since September 1996, V6 since August 1993.
Many, see Amtec web site.
US$1795 for personal license, US$2395 for single-user network license, US$1795 for each additional user. All prices the USA and Canada only.
Amtec Engineering, Inc
PO Box 3633
Bellevue, WA 98009-3633
U.S.A.
+1 800 676 7568, +1 425 827 3304
+1 425 827 3989
August 4, 1997.
Mechanical CAD system available for Linux and Windows 95 and Windows NT.
The system is equipped with all basic resources necessary both for constructors' and designers' work in engineering. It includes functions for 3D modeling, 2D drawing, editing, transformations, working with user defined objects, block, group and symbol creating capabilities. The whole system is very customizable and widely open.
CD-ROM, Internet (WWW).
Free demo version available on our web site.
Kernel version 2.0 or higher, XFree86 version 3.1+, RAM 16 MB, harddisk 20 MB, libc 5.4.
Online help, English.
New version about every three months.
New versions during first year free.
1991.
World wide.
US$dollar;199-$499.
VariCAD
931 Greenbriar Avenue
Ottawa, ON K2C 0J8
Canada
P. O. Box 38
Liberec 2
460 02
Czech Republic
+1 613 723 5319
+1 613 723 5319
Petr Placek
August 15, 1998.
A high level development tool for CAD and Product modeling applications. Interactive parametric modelling in 2D and 3D with object oriented database. High level CAD and modelling language MBS included.
Internet (WWW).
Free binary for Linux.
Requires X but not Motif. Needs 3 MB of harddisk for basic installation and 3MB of RAM to run.
400 pages of documentation included in the free version for Linux.
Service with continous updates and free consultation available for US $75/month.
Additional plotterdrivers available free of charge.
July, 1996.
World wide.
Linux version is free of charge.
Microform AB
Henningsholmsgatan 4
S-703 69 Orebro
Sweden
+46 19314932
+46 19314969
Johan Kjellander
September 30, 1997.
Image scanning and manipulation software for HP ScanJet scanners.
Internet (EMail and FTP). 4mm DDS2 DAT tape or 3.5 diskettes (additional US$15 in the USA, US$25 international).
XVScan is based on XV and is not available in demo version due to licensing restrictions. Distributed with full source code.
Linux, tested with 1.2.x and 2.0.x, requires a recent generic SCSI driver support to be built in (no earlier than 1.1.79). Motif is not required. Any XFree version (X11R5, X11R6).
Online, WWW, English.
Updates free for first year.
Also available for HP-UX, BSD/OS 2.2 and 3.0, SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, and FreeBSD.
May, 1995.
World wide.
US$50 for FTP or EMail shipping. Additional US$15 for media in the United States, US$15, internationally. Mastercard, Visa and Discover, and American Express Credit Cards accepted.
tummy.com, ltd.
3506 Stratton Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80525-2722
U.S.A.
+1 970 223 8215
+1 408 490 2728
Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com> or Evelyn Mitchell <efm@tummy.com>
August 4, 1997.
ACUCOBOL-GT is an ANSI-85 COBOL development system with compiler, runtime, debugger, support utilities and documentation. It offers single source hardware independence, GUI COBOL, client/server capabilities, multithreading support, and data source flexibility. Additionally, ACUCOBOL-GT is year 2000 compliant.
currently 3,5" diskettes (A CD-ROM is planned for 2Q/98).
Runtime license for each installed application including license fees for all products free of charge 30 day evaluation copy available on our web site.
Linux a.out and ELF. Tested on Red Hat Linux 4.1 with kernel version 2.0.30.
Printed dccumentation for all products (english), online documentation for web evaluation copy.
Update service (annual fee is 20% of product list price), training courses for core products (DM 600/day at scheduled dates), technical support included in update service.
February, 1995.
World wide.
US$1.500 for single user development system (Linux), US$300 for each additional developer, runtime fees on request (price is depending on contract form).
Acucobol Deutschland GmbH
Otto-Hahn-Str. 9
D-61381 Friedrichsdorf
Germany
+49 6175 93310
+49 6175 1429
Annette Schmidt
Acucobol, Inc.
7950 Silverton Avenue, Suite #201
San Diego, CA 92126
U.S.A.
+1 800 COBOL 85, +1 619 6897220
+1 619 566 3071
Jeff Freedman
November 1, 1997.
Amzi! enables the easy integration of intelligent components with conventional applications allowing you to add logic-bases that give advice, configure and tune systems, diagnose problems, apply business rules, monitor processes and parse documents. Your applications access a logic-base of rules just as a database server accesses records. The rules are expressed in Prolog which has powerful, built-in search and pattern matching capabilities. The Amzi! Logic Server is encapsulated as a C++ Class and C API Interface. You can add your own Prolog functions in C/C++. Includes: compiler, listener, debugger, linker, EXE, generator, call-in/call-out Logic Server API, full documentation, comprehensive Prolog tutorial and lots of sample code.
Internet.
The Professional Edition includes an unlimited, royalty-free license. The Personal Edition is limited to distributing applications for non-commercial use only.
About 350 KB of RAM for typical small application, 3-4 MB disk.
HTML format, includes full Prolog tutorial.
Subscription Plus service provides automatic updates for a full year, $198. Custom development services available.
No Linux system included. For Amzi! software, free tech support for registered users by phone, fax and EMail.
November 3, 1995.
World wide.
Personal (Shareware), $49. Professional, $298.
Amzi! inc.
40 Samuel Prescott Drive
Stow, MA 01775
U.S.A.
+1 508 897 7332
+1 508 897 2784
Mary Kroening
August 4, 1997.
The Basmark QuickBASIC Compiler is a multi-user IBM-PC BASICA, MBASIC and Microsoft QuickBASIC Compiler designed to provide performance and consistency across a variety of machines (e.g. i386 and i486, Pentium, SPARC, RS/6000, HP PA-RISC) under Unix, AIX, SunOS, Linux, HP-UX and Xenix.
Internet.
Per machine, no run-time restrictions.
GNU GAS and LD must be installed.
400+ page manual, release and installation notes available in hardcopy form for an additional US$50 (plus shipping).
Updates available for US$139 less shipping. Maintenance contracts available.
C-ISAM (Informix Inc.) Interface in C source code form. Cost is US$35.
December, 1993.
World wide.
US$195.
Basmark Corporation
P.O. Box 40450
Cleveland, OH 44140
U.S.A.
+1 216 871 8855
+1 216 871 9011
jgo@basmark.com (for orders)
Joseph O'Toole (for orders)
November 4, 1997.
Systems development compiler and runtime.
Internet (WWW).
Commercial with library source, evaluation licenses available for download at http://www.cmass.com/cm3.
Linux/ELF.
Online.
Optional.
May, 1996.
USA.
US$479/seat.
Critical Mass, Inc.
Critical Mass, Inc.
225R Concord Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
U.S.A.
+1 617 354 6277
+1 617 354 5027
May 19, 1997.
Dynace (pronounced like ``dynasty'' without the ``t'') is a preprocessor, include files and a library which extends the C language with advanced object oriented capabilities, automatic garbage collection and multiple threads. Dynace is designed to solve many of the problems associated with C++ while being easier to learn and containing more flexable object oriented facilities. Dynace is able to add facilities previously only available in languages such as Smalltalk and CLOS without all the overhead normally associated with those environments.
Internet (WWW); including full C source code.
One license per programmer; Applications are royalty free. Full system is on http://www.edge.net/algorithms. Free for non-commercial use.
Any Linux.
310 pages; in Postscript, HP PCL, or TeX DVI.
Complete Windows development system.
December, 1993.
US$599.
Algorithms Corporation
3020 Liberty Hills Drive
Franklin, TN 37067
U.S.A.
+1 800 566 8991, +1 615 791 1636
+1 615 791 7736
Blake McBride
August 4, 1997.
VAX/VMS compatible ANSI Fortran 77 compiler and debugger.
3.5" diskettes.
Single user license; multi-user packages also available.
Linux 1.2.13.
300+ pages hard copy documentation.
No-charge technical support.
March, 1996.
World wide.
US$525-$2,000.
Absoft Corporation
2781 Bond Street
Rochester Hills, MI 48309
U.S.A.
+1 248 853 0050
+1 248 853 0108
Wood Lotz
August 7, 1997.
OSF/Motif GUI for shell scripts.
Internet (FTP).
Finesse is a fully commercial product for other Unixes where nodelocked licenses are possible. The Linux version is freely available via FTP. Floppy medium is DM 90.
ELF Libraries. X11R6. No Motif required.
PostScript File.
No support for free version.
May, 1995.
World wide.
Free demo. Commercial version with support on request.
science + computing GmbH
Hagellocher Weg 71
D-72070 Tübingen
Germany
+49 7071 9457 0
+49 7071 9457 27
Olaf Flebbe
February 25, 1997.
ISE Eiffel is a seamless object-oriented development environment. ISE Eiffel provides an integrated solution for software developers through pure object-oriented methods, from analysis and design through code generation, maintenance, and reverse engineering.
The components of ISE Eiffel include EiffelBench, EiffelBase, EiffelBuild, EiffelVision, EiffelLex, EiffelParse, EiffelNet, EiffelStore, ObjEdit, EiffelCase, EiffelMath, EiffelWeb, DLE (Dynanic Linking in Eiffel) and SCOOP (Distribution/Concurrency mechanism).
CD-ROM and Internet (FTP and WWW)
No run-time fees are required for products, commercial or otherwise, developed with ISE's technology. In the case of commercial products we simply require the product and its documentation to acknowledge ISE Eiffel clearly. The copyright holder must acknowledge the product's use/incorporation of ISE Eiffel by (a) Featuring "ISE Eiffel" prominently in product documentation, and (b) Featuring an "ISE Eiffel" software window or pop-up message clearly visible during the copyrighted product's installation process.
Linux ELF or a.out.
Printed documentation. Additional online help.
Update service, maintenance, training available.
August, 1994.
World wide.
Starting at US$99.
Interactive Software Engineering, Inc.
ISE Building
270 Storke Road, 2nd Floor
Goleta, CA 93117
U.S.A.
+1 805 685 1006
+1 805 685 6869
October 3, 1997.
Object-oriented CASE Workbench.
CD-ROM and Internet (FTP and WWW).
No run-time fees are required for products, commercial or otherwise, developed with ISE's technology. In the case of commercial products we simply require the product and its documentation to acknowledge ISE Eiffel clearly. The copyright holder must acknowledge the product's use/incorporation of ISE Eiffel by (a) Featuring "ISE Eiffel" prominently in product documentation, and (b) Featuring an "ISE Eiffel" software window or pop-up message clearly visible during the copyrighted product's installation process.
Linux ELF or a.out.
Eiffel: The Environment. Language References.
Update service, maintenance, training available.
August, 1994.
World wide.
Starting at US$99.
Interactive Software Engineering, Inc.
ISE Building
270 Storke Road, 2nd Floor
Goleta, CA 93117
U.S.A.
+1 805 685 1006
+1 805 685 6869
October 3, 1997.
C-Forge is a highly scalable, multi-user integrated development environment that provides full project management and complete edit, compile and debug cycle support. Includes its own full-featured editor, revision control tool and diff tool. Drag and drop is enabled throughout the environment. Allows easy configuration and use of external tools. Currently supports C/C++ -- more languages on the way.
Internet (FTP).
Single user and floating multi user licenses available. Free demo available at our web site.
Works with Linux kernels 2.0.x and 2.1.x. Installations available in tar.gz and RPM formats.
Online.
By EMail.
We add the features you want to future versions of C-Forge.
February, 1998.
World wide.
US$30 for single user version. Contact for corporate pricing policies. Educational discounts available.
Code Forge Inc.
Yuri Mironoff
February 8, 1998.
The InterSoft Development Environment for Applications in Unix, or IdeaFix, is a set of programming tools and utilities designed to provide an integrated environment for programmers as well as end-users. The aim of IdeaFix is to maximize performance and productivity for both.
For the end-user, IdeaFix offers a user-friendly interface and an online help system. IdeaFix provides the developer with tools to simplify development of such design criteria as relational databases and modular structured programming.
4/8 mm. DAT, 150/525 MB tape. Academic version available from:
Commercial.
20 MB disk space, and GNU C/C++ compiler.
Available in PostScript.
Contact ideafix-info@inter-soft.com for more information.
SQL server, Dali - Development Environment, Cracker for Windows.
1986.
Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and USA.
Linux version for free (with some restrictions). Other prices available on request.
InterSoft Argentina S.A.
Córdoba 883 9th. Floor
Capital Federal (1054)
Argentina
+54 1 318 8900
+54 1 318 8997
August 4, 1997.
Harness the power of Java clients while maintaining a legacy database on wide variety of O/S. Java API with c-tree Plus' ISAM functionality gives Java functionality through native methods/RMI. j-tree utilizes the power/flexibility of FairCom's full line of database Servers.
3.5" diskettes.
A licensed copy of c-tree Plus, thereafter royalty free.
2 MB of RAM.
Full online documentation with CD-ROM, available in English and Japanese.
Three months of full technical support from purchase date.
August, 1997.
World wide.
Upon request.
FairCom
4006 W. Broadway
Columbia, MO 65203-0100
U.S.A.
+1 573 445 6833
+1 573 445 9698
Tamra Brown <tami@faircom.com>
FairCom Europe
Via Patrioti 6
I-24021 Albino
Italy
+39 35 773 464
+39 35 773 806
FairCom Japan
Ikeda Bldg. #3 4F, 112-5
Komei-chou, Tsu-city MIE 514
Japan
+81 059 229 7504
+81 059 249 723
FairCom do Brasil Ltda.
+55 11 3872 9802
+55 11 3862 1752
August 9, 1997.
The KAI C++ compiler provides conformance to the latest draft standard, high performance, low abstraction penalty, identical syntax and libraries on all supported platforms and superior customer support. No other compiler is as close to the draft standard.
Internet (FTP and WWW).
Commercial. 30 day free trial available at http://www.kai.com/kcc_howto.shtml
Red Hat Linux 2.1 or later. Other Software: gcc 2.7.2.1. Disk space: 15 MB.
Complete online documentation is supplied.
No-charge technical support. Annual Support service provides automatic updates for a full year, US$79.
May, 1997.
World wide.
US$395 single processor; US$545 multiprocessor.
Kuck & Associates, Inc.
1906 Fox Drive
Champaign, IL 61820-7345
U.S.A.
+1 217 356 2288
+1 217 356 5199
Bruce Leasure <bruce@kai.com>
July 14, 1997.
Khoros Pro 2.2 is a software development environment with extensive image processing, software development, and data visualization capabilities.
CD-ROM.
Single user license comes with Khoros Pro CD-ROM. For software developers, independent software developer licenses are available.
Linux 2.0.18, gcc 2.7.2, Fortran compiler f2c 19951025+ AT&T Bell Labs.
Printed documentation; Installation Guide and User's Guide come with the CD-ROM. Five volume Developer's Manual set available from KRI.
Training in Software Development and Digital Image Processing scheduled through 1998. See http://www.khoral.com/training/training.html.
Maintenance, technical and engineering support may be purchased from KRI on a negotiated basis.
August, 1996.
World wide. Addison Wesley selling to educational market.
Single user Khoros Pro 2.2 is US$549. Independent software developer licenses start at US$5,000 and go up depending on platforms and organization structure. Royalty agreements can be negotiated.
Khoral Research Inc.
6001 Indian School NE Suite 200
Albuquerque, NM 87110
U.S.A.
+1 505 837 6500
+1 505 881 3842
Annie MacFarlane <annie@khoral.com>
August 4, 1997.
MetaCard is a GUI development and multimedia authoring tool compatible with Apple Corporation's HyperCard. Anyone can use MetaCard to build GUI applications and hypermedia documents using a powerful, direct manipulation editor and an easy-to-learn scripting language.
MetaCard goes beyond HyperCard by including support for color controls and images, vector graphics, scrollbars, and dialog boxes. MetaCard's scripting language has support for arrays, custom (user defined) object properties, and is based on high-perforance "virtual compiler" technology. Stacks developed with MetaCard are portable among all popular Unix platforms and Windows 95/NT and can be distributed with without licensing fees or royalties.
3.5" diskettes and Internet (FTP and EMail).
MetaCard can be licensed to a single, named individual, but can be used on any machine or combination of machines by that user. Multiple user packages are also available.
The save-disabled distribution is available via anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard and ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/MetaCard.
The Linux engine is built on a 1.2.13 ELF system. Minumum 8 MB RAM for runtime, 16MB RAM for development. Minimum 640x480x8 screen resolution for runtime, 800x600x8 for development. Development system requires about 5MB disk space. GUI is Motif-compliant, but does not require Motif libraries.
Complete online documentation is supplied. Printed documentation is an extra-cost option.
Free EMail technical support, phone support available at extra cost.
A library version of MetaCard that can be linked directly to C programs (Embedded MetaCard) is available at extra cost.
June, 1992.
World wide.
US$995 for single-user all-platform development license.
MetaCard Corporation
4710 Shoup pl.
Boulder, CO 80303
U.S.A.
+1 303 447 3936
+1 303 499 9855
August 4, 1997.
Automated documentation generator from C++ programs. Generates doucmentation in various formats including HTML, RTF, MIF along with Java classes.
Internet (FTP and WWW).
Single, Multiple, Site and Floating Licenses.
Linux ELF.
Provided in PostScript along with the distribution.
Free for 30 days. Then a contract based on six month to a one year cycle.
New release are released every quarter.
1995.
USA.
US$2295 for most flavours of Unix. Free of charge for Linux users that work in a non-commercial environment.
ObjectSoftware, Inc.
3519 Misty Meadow Drive
Dallas, TX 75287
U.S.A.
+1 214 373 2021
+1 972 662 0756
Bobby Sardana
September 30, 1997.
Distributed application development environment.
CD-ROM.
Commercial with library source, evaluation licenses available for purchase.
Linux/ELF.
Extensive documentation included (printed and online)
Optional.
See http://www.cmass.com/reactor/overview/index.html#reactor_features
May, 1996.
USA.
US$479-$3500/seat. Discounts are available for non-commercial and academic use.
Critical Mass, Inc.
Critical Mass, Inc.
225R Concord Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
U.S.A.
+1 617 354 6277
+1 617 354 5027
May 19, 1997.
A source code metrics and quality analysis tool for C and C++. This creates standard metrics like Lines of Code, Cylcomatic complexity and functional analysis. This tool is portable across most all popular operating systems. The quality analysis checks for semantic errors that most compilers miss and enforces stardard software development standards.
Software can be downloaded from our
web site or EMailed or shipped on floppy disk in ZIP and tar format.
Shareware licensing for the demo version which processes one file. Commercial single user and network licenses will process any number of files of any size from wild cards at the command line, from a list or recursively descend a directory tree.
Linux 1.2.
Comes with full online documentation or printed text file. English language only.
1 Email support. 1 year software maintenance available.
Some license come with unmodifiable source code for compiling on your specific OS. Each license comes with a pretty printing utility and a DOS to Unix conversion utility.
March, 1997.
World wide.
US$99.99 for single user non-source code version to US$999.95 for the network source code license.
M Squared Technolgies
2128 Hidden Pine Lane
Apopka, FL 32712
U.S.A.
+1 407 880 2627
+1 407 880 2627
September 25, 1998.
r-tree report generator in C source code.
Provides complex, multi-line reports by handling virtually every aspect of report generation. The only programming requirement is to call the r-tree report function, which reads c-tree data files, performs calculations, monitors control breaks and accumulators and produces a formatted report. Complete with C source code. Requires c-tree Plus.
3.5" diskettes and CD-ROM.
r-tree Plus is licensed on a per programmer basis. Royalty-free distribution. Contact FairCom for possible restrictions.
Printed manuals distributed with product; full online documentation with CD-ROM, available in English and Japanese.
Three months of full technical support from purchase date. Unlimited technical support and product updates available thereafter with r-tree maintenance program.
October, 1995.
World wide.
US$445.
FairCom
4006 W. Broadway
Columbia, MO 65203-0100
U.S.A.
+1 573 445 6833
+1 573 445 9698
Tamra Brown <tami@faircom.com>
FairCom Europe
Via Patrioti 6
I-24021 Albino
Italy
+39 35 773 464
+39 35 773 806
FairCom Japan
Ikeda Bldg. #3 4F, 112-5
Komei-chou, Tsu-city MIE 514
Japan
+81 059 229 7504
+81 059 249 723
FairCom do Brasil Ltda.
+55 11 3872 9802
+55 11 3862 1752
August 7, 1997.
This program helps to create a complete, indexed documentation from your sources (C, tcl, Perl currently available, other will follow soon).
You add documentation information to your scripts using pod (Plain old documentation), the documentation format also used in Perl. The documentation options provided by pod are simple and easy to learn but powerfull enough to create nice and good looking documents.
sdoc uses this information to create a pod-document which in turn may be transformed to HTML, LaTeX (and PostScript), nroff or just plain text.
The preview function of tdoc lets you create documentation interactively - add or modify your documentation to the source file and check the output for correctness.
Here are some highlights:
The Tcl Documenter is also available as a commercial version. This version adds the following features:
3.5" diskettes and Internet (EMail and WWW).
You can download the public domain version of sdoc from the neosoft tcl archive:
You need an ELF based system with X11.
Context sensitive help and complete documentation in Pod format. Available as PostScript on request.
Installation support included, additional support available.
July, 1996.
World wide.
Contact softWorks for pricing details. Discounts for students and educational institutions available.
softWorks, Richard Schwaninger
Theodor-Körnerstr. 173
A-8010 Graz
Austria
+43 316 686590
+43 316 686590
Richard Schwaninger
August 7, 1997.
SEDIT is a powerful Unix text editor patterned after IBM's XEDIT editor. It operates with a GUI under X windows or in character mode from a tty device. S/REXX is a full Unix implementation of IBM's SAA procedural language except that the numeric digit specification is limited to 15 digits. S/REXX functions as an imbedded macro language for SEDIT as well as providing a powerful modern programming language alternative to shell scripting languages. SEDIT and S/REXX may be purchased in a bundle or individually. See our web site for more information including pricing for Linux, etc. For additional information, please contact one of the local distributors listed on the web site or mail us at sedit@dialup.FranceNet.fr
4mm, 8mm, 1/4" or 3.5" diskettes and Internet (FTP).
SEDIT and S/REXX are licensed products. See the above WWW site for details. For demo purposes, a short term license key will be provided on request to anyone who obtains the product via ftp.
We believe these products will work with any recent stable Linux kernel since 1.1.18 supporting a.out format. Motif is fully bound with SEDIT and SEDIT is distributed with XFree86 3.1 shared libraries for use if your system is not at that level.
Documentation is furnished in PostScript form, in extensive online help files, and in optional printed manuals.
Technical support is available for all licensed users. For maintenance, see the above URLs.
A REXX interactive graphical debugger is available as an optional feature as are printed manuals, physical media, and on going maintenance. See the above URLs.
The original Linux version has been available since 3rd quarter 1995.
SEDIT and S/REXX are available worldwide. The URLs should be consulted for current information.
Pricing information should be requested from the local distributor responsible for your country. An economical 2 user license is available for Linux without media or printed documentation with other options for more users, S/REXX, hardcopy manuals, etc.
Benaroya
31 Rue de Constantinople
F-75008 Paris
France
+33 1 47 22 22 13
+33 1 47 22 06 17
Robert Benaroya
August 4, 1997.
SNiFF+ is an open, scalable and multiplatform programming environment for C/C++, Java, CORBA IDL and Fortran. The main goal in developing SNiFF+ was to create an efficient and portable programming environment with a comfortable user interface and special support for object oriented programming.
CD-ROM and Internet (FTP).
Trial license avialable.
Linux 1.2 or 2.0.
Printed documentation and HTML version.
Extensions fo