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Software developers, it seems, like Windows NT. Since Microsoft brought out Version 3.51 of the 32-bit operating system about a year ago, NT installations have surged. The explosive growth of […]

Vendors selling client/server development frameworks must convince users that the new offerings are totally unlike AD/Cycle and its clones, whose assurances cost many IS organizations millions. In the mainframe-centered world […]

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) may increase end-user productivity, but still yield a poor return on investment. Depending on the type of tools used, development time for the GUI portion of […]

GUI TOOLS STILL FAR FROM PICTURE PERFECT To many, a picture represents a thousand words. To a programmer, a picture often represents a thousand hours of aggravation. While building graphic […]

WHY CASE SHOULD EXTEND INTO SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE As the leader of one of your organization's systems development groups, you have just been given an especially difficult assignment. It seems that […]

Application development tools come in many flavors, from low-end Java RAD packages and two-tier GUI builders on up to enterprise-class, client/server 4GLs that can be used to build multithreaded transaction […]

Microsoft unites office via hot tool Since its first introduction, Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Basic software has made surprising, and steady, inroads. Many insist that it is underpowered for enterprise-wide tasks, […]

Rivals Will Support IBM As the AD/Cycle and Repository Manager/MVS designs slowly move into the product phase--and users see that an integrated IBM computer-aided software engineering (Case) solution is years […]

Component-based development is the future of development, and modeling is the key to CBD. In my August column I stated that generative modelers (modeling tools capable of generating applications) provide […]

DEVELOPERS, CHOOSE YOUR PLATFORMS As data processing organizations begin to accept the promise of computer-aided software engineering (Case), traditionally IBM-faithful DP management is becoming more open-minded about what hardware platforms […]

You remember the old IBM, the company that never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity? While I don't expect Lou Gerstner to show up on the conference circuit anytime […]

Once perceived as a programming toy, Visual Basic has become an industry standard for rapid application development (RAD). Third-party tool vendors have brought the language into corporate computing arenas such […]

The Smalltalk programming language took a big step forward last year when IBM entered the market with its VisualAge development environment. Yet, instead of feeling threatened, Smalltalk vendors say they […]

Paris-based Groupe Bull completed a 30-month development effort this fall with the unveiling of its distributed database architecture--Distributed Data Access (DDA). Bull is the latest of the traditionally proprietary minicomputer […]

Unisys Corp. in Blue Bell, Pa., has been busily working to provide customers with a consistent set of relational database management products. 'The market is clearly embracing the relational DBMS […]

TOOLS ARE NEEDED FOR DRIVE TO THE DESKTOP If it is true that more and more cycles will be moving to the desktops and away from host machines, and that […]

As the software industry moves toward an electronic software distribution model, vendors and customers alike will need to design strategies that enable them to efficiently track their software. To tackle […]

Industry luminary Ray Noorda was fielding questions recently as one of the companies he has invested in, Willows software, Saratoga, Calif., announced Internet availability of source libraries and binary code […]

In October, Antares Alliance Group, Dallas, began early shipments of its Huron Objectstar Release 3.0 cross-platform application development environment. Antares is privately held and backed by two equity partners, Amdahl […]

Work with a consultancy proved an inspiration for ParcPlace Systems Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., in its recent efforts to improve the lot of firms trying to find software objects within their […]

Iona Technologies Ltd. of Dublin, Ireland, is moving ahead with resellers and distributors in its efforts to sell its Orbix product, an implementation of the Corba standard defined by the […]

A cautionary view of the object phenomena comes form Winfried Burke, vice president of marketing at Oberon Software, Cambridge, Mass. 'Once you have all these objects, how do you build […]

Compuware Corp., Farmington Hills, Mich., has acquired the CICS Problem Determination/MVS product it developed for IBM's Hursley Park, England, laboratory in 1989. The acquisition comes just six weeks after Compuware […]

Bachman Information Systems, Inc., Burlington, Mass., has turned to Austin, Texas, start-up Evolutionary Technologies, Inc. for technology aimed at converting legacy data to relational database management systems. 'Bachman first saw […]

Computer Associates International, Inc. has strengthened its bid to increase sales in the desktop market with the acquisition of the C++ compiler and CommonView object-oriented class library technology from Glockenspiel […]

The Huron rules-based software development environment of Amdahl Corp. incorporates a database manager that represents 'a 100% alternaive to IBM's DB2' and other mainframe database management systems, said Peter Bakalor, […]

IS MODEL OPEN? Is the IBM Information Model that sits atop its AD/Cycle Repository Manager open? Some consultants and software suppliers maintain that the model is in effect closed, by […]

M&D's Pios Built with DEC Tools The Pios MRP II (manufacturing resource planning) package from McCormack & Dodge and originally from Rath & Strong Systems Products, is one software package […]