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Sometimes you feel like you need a cross-platform application development tool, sometimes you don't. You might feel like using one when you have to deploy a mission-critical application to users […]

OBSERVING SOME JOURNEYMEN programmers' angst over the inevitable shift to objects, it is hard not to recall Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's famous analysis of the five-part psychological process we go through when […]

Chicago, Windows NT™ and OS/2[sup.R] Version 2.1 are just some of the PC-based operating systems that can help users put RISC Alpha processors, PowerPC processors, and other new or evolving […]

GENERAL-PURPOSE LIBRARIES * Action Plus Software 935 East 7220 South D-108 Midvale, UT 84047-2393 (801) 255-0600 Fax (801) 225-0642 Clip Word/SpellClip Price: $199.95 Clip Word/SpellClip provides Clipper programmers with a […]

Areas that Paradox's healthy add-on market address include interactive tools to cut keystrokes, report generators, extenders for adding mouse support and memo fields, and programmer products like editors, script managers, […]

Since the third-party market for Clipper developers is huge, a classification scheme helps sort the current crop of products. Some future hot growth areas: object class libraries, graphical/event-driven user interfaces, […]

The Future Of Software Engineering Is Wide Open, And HP's SoftBench Environment Offers Room For Development Increasing interest in the emerging discipline of software engineering has spawned an entire new […]

THE DOMAIN SOFTWARE Engineering Environment (DSEE) is a configuration management system that is useful for managing large, complex software development and maintenance projects. (*) DSEE runs on the Apollo Domain […]

CASE Power For OS/2 Growing up in Worcester, Mass., Terry McGowan was one of the white-knuckle kids who liked to push his way to the front seat of the roller […]

What's SQL-Link? Borland's joint announcement of Paradox 3.5 and SQL-Link is big news. It gives you a response for all of those complaints you've heard that a micro database management […]

So many computer vendors over the past three months have announced Internet compatibility in their products that you almost need a map to track who offers what. In the world […]

Development tools for Microsoft's 32-bit contender are trickling out slowly, mainly because of NT's tepid reception on the desktop. Thinking about giving Windows NT a test drive as the base […]

Visual (VB) is my ideal development tool for Windows. Even neophyte VB programmers who haven't a clue about the Windows Application Programming Interface (API) can build robust Windows apps. Better […]

Multimedia applications--enduser software that incorporates high-quality sound, animation, even full-motion video--are about to find their way into the day-to-day business of the enterprise. According to the Business Research Group in […]

Gone is the slow, line-by-line coding of third-generation languages. Gone is the procedural call to the 3GL from the fourth-generation language. In their place stand ready-to-order, often graphically oriented, application […]

Ben Myers A NEW CROP of Windows development tools offers programming shortcuts that promise to simplify the job of Windows software developers. In recent weeks, Borland International Inc., of Scotts […]

'If you roll out a generic piece of analytics software, people tend to abandon it,' says ProClarity CEO Bob Lokken. This is because pre-packaged, or 'canned', applications often fail to […]

Worldwide Computer Products News-24 July 2002-Microsoft offers connector for '.Net' and Oracle databases (C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Microsoft Corp has announced the release of connecting software for the '.Net' […]

Is the prototype-oriented approach best for your next technology initiative? Baseline has put together these files to give you an overview of how the spiral approach works. The Project Planner […]

Want to evolve your call center into a multi-channel customer interaction center? Here's a sampling of vendors that have geared up to offer products and services to help you provide […]

RPG has been the mainstay of ERP applications, but it can also be used for e-business, * What is it? Report Program Generator (RPG) is the programming language traditionally associated […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Microsoft Corp has launched two new tools to help developers build and use Web Services - applications made available over the Internet via the […]

The advent of SystemC language has generated considerable interest in the design community. Unfortunately, some of the facts about the value of SystemC have been lost in the hype. It […]

BUILDING ON CORBA, IONA TECHNOLOGIES SEEKS TO MAKE ITS iPORTAL SERVER ANOTHER PLAYER IN A CROWDED FIELD SO IONA TECHNOLOGIES WANTS TO BE A PORTAL SOFTWARE COMPANY. Welcome to the […]

MARKING THE LATEST industry embrace of open-source advocates, Hewlett- Packard and Intel last week released a free IA-64 developers kit that allows the Linux community to develop, test, debug, and […]

Software tools from Source Recovery Company LLC of Framingham, Mass., convert fourth-generation language and legacy Cobol generator codes into standard Cobol. Retire/4GL and Retire/CodeGen can convert to Cobol programs written […]

Advanced Software Products Group Inc. (ASPG) has acquired Command CICS from APT of America Inc. (APT Software International). Command CICS translates code at execution time. To identify Macro-Level code that […]

Computer Associates last week sold off several products it had acquired from systems management vendor Platinum. To comply with antitrust regulations, the Department of Justice forced CA to sell some […]

For those Visual Studio users who like tools to be bundled with the box, help is at hand for dealing with the new Microsoft Windows Installer technology. It comes in […]

If you're interested in experimenting with Jini, Sun's system for plug-and-play networking, you can register on the Java Developers connection site and download a free copy of the Jini System […]

You may ask yourself, how do I work this? And you may ask yourself, where does that highway lead to? And you may ask yourself, am I right, or am […]

While the software industry pushes for increased adoption of electronic software distribution, two vendors are introducing products they hope will address piracy concerns for developers and license issues for users. […]

SAN ANTONIO -- Multiplatform may be a buzzword, but porting code from one system to another is anything but a trivial task. Particularly when one of the systems is an […]

Tom Sawyer Software Corp. announced a family of portable graph editors that support Borland Object Windows 2.0 for Novell AppWare designed to improve the quality of a wide variety of […]

One of the questions we hear most often about rapid application development is, 'Which CASE tool should we use?' Our answer, 'none,' usually elicits consternation. How could we, proponents of […]

As companies grapple with implementing client/server environments, data-query and reporting tools will evolve to provide users with more sophisticated features to help them sift through corporate data. 'The problem is, […]

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.'S DECpc 433DX LP. DEC's DECpc 433DX LP stood out from the other 33MHz 486DX systems we tested in 1993, providing solid performance numbers, good expandability, and a […]

From the very beginning, application development was a strong suit of the IBM AS/400. Users and independent software developers alike found IBM's midrange system -- with its sophisticated operating system, […]

Application generators provide several advantages to developers and users. They can help experienced system developers respond more quickly to demands by shortening the traditional design/code/test cycle of software development. Application […]

Genus Microprogramming, Inc. Houston, Texas Phone: 800-227-0918 Fax: 713-870-0288 PCX Toolkit for Windows, $249 Data Techniques, Inc. Savannah, Georgia Phone: 800-868-8003 Fax: 912-651-8021 ImageMan/VB, $249 More and more programmers need […]

THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT Fourth Generation Languages (4GLs) have won a permanent place in the toolset of application developers. Many skeptics have been converted not only because 4GLs have […]

The SAA architecture is supposed to east the development of portable and distributable programs and data among key IBM environments that were previously incompatible. IBM has been working hard on […]

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 […]

Tempo II Plus and QuickKeys 2 Two programs designed to keep your hands off the mouse as much as possible have recently been upgraded: Affinity's Tempo II Plus and CE […]

USL to ship Mips-based ABI for Unix System V.4 SUMMIT, N.J. -- In a move to counter last week's announcement by the Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) initiative, the Unix Systems […]

By Karen D. Moser Although the industry has been calling for a revolution in end-user programming tools, the movement may turn out to be a minor uprising, many analysts say. […]