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         C++ class library for distributed object-oriented Apps

                            C++ Starter Kit

                Scopus integrates with Atria's ClearCASE

                    Transarc's DCE & Encina for Sun

                          NetMake Release 1.2

                   Object-Oriented Case for Real-Time

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Subject: C++ class library for distributed object-oriented Apps
From:    shirleyk@qualix.com (Shirley Kumamoto)
Info:	info@qualix.com.

NETCLASSES - C++ LIBRARY FOR DISTRIBUTED OBJECT-ORIENTED APPLICATIONS


NetClasses is a set of C++ class libraries that is designed facilitate
the development of object-oriented distributed systems applications.
NetClasses provides the tools needed to develop complex distributed
applications without having to deal with the details of low-level
communications.

NetClasses features:

o Transport objects over a network.

o Perform remote method invocations (RMI).  Fault tolerance
  and connection management are transparent to the application
  programmer.

o Develop distributed services based on a transparent
  connection and service management mechanism.  Users can
  write applications that use agents that advertise their
  their services over the network.  The programmer is shielded
  from setting up explicit port numbers and RPC connections.

o Develop multiple distributed applications that leverage
  existing distributed applications by using the multiple
  inheritance, subtyping and data encapsulation capabilities
  of the NetClasses package.

o TCP and UDP based reliable broadcast protocols available
  as C++ class libraries

o Applications written with NetClasses are both
  interoperable and compatible with CORBA (Common Object
  Request Broker Architecture).  Applications written with
  NetClasses can incorporate CORBA functionality within them
  and take advantage of Object Transport and Distribute
  Services while using CORBA within the same application.
  Also, NetClasses applications can communicate to any other
  CORBA via a gateway at the Remote Method Invocation layer.
  (CORBA does not support Object Transport or Distributed
  Services)

PLATFORM INFORMATION
--------------------
Available on Sun SPARC;


PRICING:
-------

NetClasses Development License		$1995
NetClasses Runtime License		 $495
NetClasses Source Code License		$7995
(includes 3 runtime licenses)
NetClasses training class 		$2000
NetClasses consulting and porting services (ask for quote)

ORDERING INFORMATION:
--------------------

QUALiX GROUP, INC.
1900 So. Norfolk Street, #224
San Mateo, CA 94403


Ordering by phone: 1-800-245-UNIX
	           415-572-0200


Ordering by fax:   1-800-245-3468
	           415-572-1300

Ordering by e-mail:  info@qualix.com



GUARANTEE: We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, so if
	   you're not fully satisfied, we'll refund your money!


FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
--------------------------

Qualix is the sole distributor for NetClasses.
For more information on this or any of our
other products, call us at 1-800-245-UNIX -- or send e-mail
to info@qualix.com.

	
GETTING NETCLASSES INFORMATION VIA THE QUALIX MAIL SERVER:
---------------------------------------------------------

Qualix Group maintains a mailserver with information files
and demo versions of products. If you'd like more information
on NetClasses, send an e-mail to qfacts@qualix.com
(or uunet!qualix!qfacts) and include the following lines:

BEGIN
send netclasses.info
END
Name
Address
Phone

The NetClasses information will automatically be sent to you.
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Subject: C++ Starter Kit
From: 	 shirleyk@qualix.com (Shirley Kumamoto)
Org:	 Qualix Group
Address: 1900 S. Norfolk St. Suite 224
	 San Mateo, CA 94403-1151
voice:   (415) 572-0200
fax:     (415) 572-1300


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                            C++ Starter Kit
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VENDOR NAME:		Qualix Group
ADDRESS:     		1900 S. Norfolk St. #224
			San Mateo, CA 94403

TELEPHONE:		1(800) 245-UNIX, (415) 572-0200
FAX:			(415) 572-1300

PRODUCT NAME(S):	C++ Starter Kit

SALES OFFICE(S): 	San Mateo, CA (415) 572-0200

CONTACTS:
	SALES		Arlington Glaze			(415) 572-0200
	MARKETING	Shirley Kumamoto		(415) 572-0200
	TECHNICAL	Doug Shaker			(415) 572-0200


PRODUCT SUMMARY:

	C++ Starter Kit is a low priced learning kit for those who want to
	try C++ without spending a lot of money. The kit contains a C++
	compiler, debugger, class libraries, a textbook, and an on-line
	tutorial with many examples.  The Starter Kit comes with binaries
	for SPARC workstations and is distributed on CD ROM in SunOS
	filesystem format.

BENEFITS SUMMARY:


   FEATURE: 	Complete C++ environment/learning toolkit for $99
   BENEFIT:	Low cost way to learn/try C++

   FEATURE:	Integrated and tested tutorial
   BENEFIT:	All tutorial examples are guaranteed to work with
		the development environment provided.

   FEATURE: 	Full tutorial support offered
   BENEFIT:	Email support will allow you to get your technical	
		questions about C++ answered quickly by a staff
		of C++ experts.

	Qualix maintains a mailserver with information files and demo
	versions of products.  If you would like more information on
	the mailserver, send an email to qfacts@qualix.com (or 
	uunet!qualix!qfacts).  The email should take the following
	form:
	
	BEGIN
	send help
	send index
	END
	Name
	Address
	Phone

COMPLETE LISTING OF SOFTWARE ON THE CD:

C++ Frequently Asked Questions: a Q&A text file from comp.lang.c++ newsgroup
C++ Tutorial 2.2: an online tutorial for C++

gcc 2.1: C, C++, Objective C compiler
gas 1.92.3: assembler
gdb 4.4: source level debugger for c, c++
xxgdb 1.06: graphical front end for GDB
libg++ 2.0: base class libary with iostream classes


InterViews 3.0.1: C++ class libraries for X window programming.
Ibuild: interface builder for InterViews
Iclass: C++ class browser

RCS 5.6: program to manage multiple revisions of files
roadmap: text file describing how to use this kit
RPC++: C++ Classes for RPC/XDR 
RWVector 2.2: Vector and Matrix Classes
INSTALL: installation script

Xv++: demonstration version of a C++ class library that encapsulates XView.

oi_faq: an Xwindows-based browser for the C++ F.A.Q. list.

patch 2.0.12u5: program to apply diff file to an original
bison 1.14: parser generator (yacc replacement)
binutils 1.94: linker and binary utils
GNU grep 1.5: search file for a pattern
groff 1.05: C++ implementations of troff, pic, eqn, tbl, refer ...

legal.readme: listing of all copyright and license information
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Subject: Scopus integrates with Atria's ClearCASE
From:    Ed Niehaus <niehaus@well.sf.ca.us>

    Integration connects key MIS functions for software developers


Emeryville, California, November 18, 1992--Scopus Technology, Inc.
announced today the selection of Atria Systems, Natick Mass., as a
member of the Scopus TEAM-Partner program.  For the first time,
managers of software development operations get integrated access to
the MIS applications most crucial to quality:  defect tracking and
configuration management.  Under the joint technology and marketing
partnership, the companies will integrate the Atria ClearCase
configuration management system with the Scopus ProTEAM defect tracing
system.

"Customers' development, quality assurance and release departments now
will be able to capture, analyze and report on important linkages
between defects and source objects," explained David Schwab, Scopus
vice president of marketing.  "Our customers have made very clear that
they want this kind of integrated solution."

"The process of making and supporting software is very complex,
especially in large organizations" said Adam Zais, director of
marketing for Atria Software,  "Companies are investing in information
systems to assure quality and achieve efficiency in their software
development process.  They want these systems to be integrated to give
them access to key information that would otherwise be unavailable."

Provides quality information for quality software

The integration of ProTEAM and ClearCase provides additional quality
assurance to large organizations making complex software products.  The
release engineering department can make sure that all source code files
to fix each known defect are included in the "build" for a release.
Large companies can manage software quality even when defects are
reported in multiple geographical locations, assuring completeness and
quality while getting releases to market faster.

Finds the trail for fast bug hunting

For the first time, engineers have a set of integrated tools to
understand the relationship between source code and defects.  Fixing
one bug sometimes creates others.  The integration of ProTEAM and
ClearCase clarifies the connection between source modules and bug
reports.  If a new bug is introduced in the process of fixing a
previous bug, the engineer can review the source code changes specific
to each bug-fix in this release to find the cause.  The engineer can
discover and understand relationships between bugs, cross-referencing
related bugs and the source code modifications that may have caused
them.

Generates reports fast, saving release time

When engineers build a new release, ProTEAM and ClearCase contribute to
the automated preparation of a detailed list of newly fixed bugs.
Before the integration of Scopus' and Atria's products, this "release
notes" list usually was prepared manually, a laborious and error-prone
process.

About Atria ClearCase

ClearCase is a software configuration management system that offers a
complete solution to the fundamental problems associated with software
development:  tracking changes, building, releasing, and maintaining
software in parallel, and bringing order to an essentially chaotic
environment by enforcing development process policies.  ClearCase keeps
track of all of the objects involved in a software development project,
including requirements, specifications, designs, source and binary
code, and the environment in which they were created and stored.
ClearCase ensures that development team members always know which is
the most recent version of each object.  It records the changes made
between one version and the next, as well as who made the changes and
why.  ClearCase allows developers to re-create a previous version of a
system for bug investigation, technical support or maintenance.  The
highly configurable ClearCase system is designed for large scale and
long lived software development projects.  ClearCase is available today
on Sun, and other workstations, with a single-seat price of $4000 and
discounts for quantities.

About ProTEAM

Scopus' ProTEAM is a client-server groupware system to automate the
operations of software companies and software-centered organizations.
ProTEAM is the most flexible and configurable way to integrate
technical support, engineering, quality assurance, sales and
marketing.  ProTEAM enhances the communication among departments,
providing real improvements in product quality and customer
satisfaction.

At the heart of ProTEAM is a product/customer database based on the
Sybase SQL Server relational database.  ProTEAM captures and organizes
product and customer data to provide "enterprise memory," a true
information asset for all employees.  Currently available client
modules include QualityTEAM for defect tracking and quality control,
SupportTEAM for technical support operations and ViewTEAM for the
graphical analysis of operations.  The client modules share a suite of
ProTEAM services for search and retrieval of information, report
writing and event driven notifications.

The QualityTEAM module, designed specifically for software development
and quality assurance engineers, is the point of integration between
ProTEAM and Atria's ClearCase.  QualityTEAM allows managers to
establish and enforce process rules for accepting, assigning, tracking,
fixing and closing bugs and other exceptions.  QualityTEAM keeps
engineers and quality assurance in closer contact with one another, and
with technical support personnel, so that everyone involved with a
particular problem is notified on status and work- arounds.

Scopus ProTEAM is available today.  ProTEAM clients can run on any X
Windows capable system.  The ProTEAM Server runs on any server that
supports Sybase including Sun SPARCstations, MIPS, HP 9000 and IBM RS
6000 servers.  A typical ProTEAM configuration that would support four
technical support people and 20 engineers would cost about $45,000.
The integration between ProTEAM and ClearCase will be available to
users of both products in the first quarter of 1993Q pricing for the
integration will be determined later.  For more information, call
Scopus at 510-428-0500.

About Scopus Technology

Scopus Technology is the leading supplier of support automation tools
to the software industry.  The company's ProTEAM integrated
client-server groupware package automates the operations of software
companies, of software-centered organizations, and of help desks in
companies that use software extensively.  ProTEAM integrates the entire
organizationQengineering, quality assurance, technical support, sales
and marketingQall share a database of product and customer
information.  Scopus Technology's headquarters are in Emeryville, CA.
The privately held company has a sales and support office in Marlboro,
MA and Santa Clara, CA, and distributors in Europe.

Press Contacts:         David Schwab
                        Vice President Marketing
                        Scopus Technology, Inc. 
                        (510) 428-0500

                        Ed Niehaus
                        Niehaus Ryan Haller Public Relations
                        (415)615-7908
                        home phone (415)346-6499
                        niehaus@well.sf.ca.us

For sales & marketing information:
Scopus Technology, Inc. 
1900 Powell Street, Suite 900,
Emeryville CA 94608
(510) 428-0500
scopus@netcom.com

Atria Software, Inc.
24 Prime Park Way
Natick MA 01760
(508)650-1193
adam@atria.com

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Subject: Transarc's DCE & Encina for Sun
Contact: Sanford Merich
Phone:	 (412) 338-4352 
Fax:	 (412) 338-4404 
Email:	 merich@transarc.com

             Transarc Providing Encina and DCE for Solaris

Transarc Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA) is providing EncinaTM ,
Transarc's family of products for open on-line transaction processing
(OLTP), for SunSoft's Solaris 1.0 and Solaris 2.0 operating
environments.  In addition, since Encina is based on the Open Software
Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), Transarc is
also providing implementations of DCE for Solaris.

Transarc has been shipping Early Availability versions of Encina and
DCE for Solaris 1.0 since March, 1992.  Transarc will continue to ship
Early Availability versions of Encina and DCE for Solaris 1.0 to Sun
customers until production-quality implementations of Encina and DCE
for both Solaris 1.0 and Solaris 2.0 are available in 1H93.  Details
are available from Transarc.

Encina, with its standards-based approach to OLTP and its endorsement
by major hardware and software vendors, will be a widely-used platform
for commercial-grade OLTP. The Encina product family - which includes a
Toolkit, Monitor, and Structured File Server - provides a modular,
multi-layered OLTP solution for computing enterprises that span
multiple locations,  utilize computers from many vendors, and require
access to data stored in a variety of databases. Encina products, which
have been licensed and endorsed by system vendors such as IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, Stratus and NEC, support the X/Open XA interface for
relational database management systems such as Informix, Ingres, Oracle
and  Sybase.

"The DCE product for Solaris is yet another example of Transarc's
leadership in distributed computing technology, and its commitment to
the success of the DCE," said Alfred Z. Spector, Transarc President and
CEO. As a technology supplier to the OSF, Transarc provides the key
data management components of the DCE: the Distributed File Service
(DCE-DFS), and the Local File System (DCE-LFS), a log-based physical
file system. Other standard DCE components include Remote Procedure
Call (RPC), Threads, Cell Directory Service (CDS), Security,
Distributed Time Service (DTS), and Global Directory Service (GDS).

Transarc  Corporation  is  a  developer  of  open,  distributed
systems software,  with  headquarters  in Pittsburgh. The company's
products focus on two main areas of distributed computing - file
systems and  transaction processing.  Transarc's  first  major  file
systems  product,  AFSTM  3, is licensed  and supported at more than
300 sites in 16 countries worldwide.  Early customers of Transarc's
Encina product include Charles Schwab and Citibank. Transarc, with over
140 employees, continues to invest in the development of innovative
software products for distributed computing.

For further information please contact Sanford Merich via phone (412)
338-4352 or fax (412) 338-4404 or Internet merich@transarc.com.

AFS and Transarc are registered trademarks and Encina is a trademark of
Transarc Corporation.  Other brands and product names appearing herein
may be trademarks or registered trademarks of third parties.
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Subject: NetMake Release 1.2
From: 	 lisa@sirius.aggregate.com
Contact: Lisa Rivers
Org:	 Aggregate Computing, Inc.
Phone:	 (800)966-1666
Phone:	 (612)546-5579
email:	 info@aggregate.com

Dramatic Productivity Gains and Dollar Savings with Aggregate NetMake

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (December 14, 1992) - Aggregate Computing, Inc. is now
shipping release 1.2 of NetMake, a distributed, parallel version of the
UNIX make utility. Because NetMake can use your entire network of
workstations and servers in parallel, a one hour build can now take as
little as 12 minutes! Developers see dramatic productivity gains and
dollar savings.   With NetMake, you get parallel network distribution
of your build tasks without changing your Sun, BSD, and GNU makefiles!
NetMake has quickly become the only alternative to standard make and
home-grown versions of make. NetMake currently runs on your Sun
network, but with release 2.0, NetMake will also support heterogenous
computing environments.


About NetMake 1.2

NetMake compiles individual program modules in parallel on separate
hosts on your network, distributing the processing load across the
workstations and servers on your network to decrease elapsed compile
time. NetMake is based on the 4.3 BSD-Reno version of make. Sun make
features were added with release 1.1, and now release 1.2 provides all
GNU make features and functionality. NetMake is easy to install and use
with all three types of makefiles.

NetMake customers are excited about version 1.2 and are amazed at the
productivity gains they have seen. "NetMake is a great product! We have
cut tremendous time off of our builds," said Bob Simpson, System
Administrator, ESRI.   "We are extremely pleased with the support and
commitment Aggregate has provided!" Because of Aggregate's commitment
to open systems, NetMake will be ported to multiple platforms in 1993.
"Today most environments are heterogeneous. People want and need
products that run on multiple platforms. We are committed to providing
our customers with products that increase their productivity. In
today's computing environment that means one product working across
multiple platforms," said Dean Mason, Vice President of Software
Development at Aggregate.

NetMake uses NetShareTM, Aggregate's distributed computing services.
This common set of services allows users to locate and utilize the
"best" resources on the network with no knowledge of the resources'
states and locations. Powerful resource selection and remote execution
interfaces are provided for easy use. NetShare is both application and
operating system independent, so it is an excellent platform for the
development of location transparent and network parallel applications,
such as NetMake.

Aggregate Offers No-Risk Purchasing

Aggregate offers a no-risk money back guarantee to all of its
customers. "Customer Service is our number one priority. Our customer
list is 100% referencable. Not many software companies can say that,"
said Lauren Seidl, Director of Technical Services at Aggregate. "We
want all of our customers to not only be satisfied but to develop
better quality products because of the productivity gains and cost
efficiencies they get with NetMake."

About Aggregate

Aggregate is a leader in the design and development of distributed
computing technologies. The company was founded in 1990 and is
headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Aggregate is privately owned
and financed. Their mission is to give customers competitive
superiority through the application of distributed computing
technologies.

Aggregate's President, Joan Wrabetz, is a recognized expert in
distributed computing, influential in the future direction of the
field. She is the chair of a subgroup of the Open Software Foundation
(OSF) Distributed Computing Environment Special Interest Group (DCE
SIG). She also chaired the Unix International Work Group on Distributed
Computing. Ms. Wrabetz publishes regularly in the area of distributed
computing technologies and presents at industry trade conferences.

Aggregate's Vice President of Development, Dean Mason, is also a
recognized expert in distributed computing applications, specifically
using DCE. He regularly presents at industry trade conferences and
publishes in the area of distributed computing. His most recent
contribution, "Building Distributed Applications Using DCE" is the
feature article in the January issue of Unix Review.

					###
Aggregate is a registered trademark and NetMake and NetShare are
trademarks of Aggregate Computing, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective holders.

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Subject:    ObjecTime: Object-Oriented Case for Real-Time
Newsgroups: comp.newprod
From: 	    garth@ObjecTime.on.ca (Garth Gullekson)
Org:	    ObjecTime Limited
Phone:	    1-800-567-TIME
Email:	    sales@objectime.on.ca


              Major Enhancements to First Object-Oriented
                    CASE Tool for Real-TimeSystems

KANATA, Ontario, CANADA, -- ObjecTime 4.0, representing major
enhancements to the first object-oriented CASE tool for distributed,
event-driven systems, was introduced by ObjecTime Limited at
OOPSLA'92.  OOPSLA is the Seventh Annual Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. Support for
executable specification and design models has been enhanced to include
real-time interworking via TCP/IP sockets. For example, this can be
used to control various hardware or software entities directly from an
executing ObjecTime model.

ObjecTime represents a new generation of problem-domain optimized CASE
tools. As Jim McGee, President of ObjecTime Limited explains "ObjecTime
was created to specifically address the needs of "real-time" software
developers. It can be used on a broad spectrum of applications from
high-level architecture and protocol design to detailed design".

ObjecTime supports an advanced methodology for the analysis and design
of distributed, event-driven systems known as Real-Time Object-Oriented
Modeling (ROOM).  ROOM includes graphical design concepts and a
highly-iterative development process which help to eliminate
error-prone discontinuities between the various phases of software
development.  As a unique feature, ObjecTime enables the creation of
executable analysis and design models that can be tested in an
extensive workstation-based run-time environment.

The high-level design concepts supported for real-time include
concurrent objects (hierarchically decomposed) that communicate via
messages through formal protocol definitions. Complex hierarchical
finite-state machines specify the behavior of such objects, via major
object-oriented extensions to the Statecharts formalism.  Inheritance
can be applied at the design component level, independent of the detail
level programming language.

As Garth Gullekson, Vice President of Marketing notes, "Getting early
prove-in of the control architecture of real-time systems is critical.
ObjecTime 4.0 now allows the creation of various networked testbeds for
more realistic prototyping of new systems". This is achieved by the
capability of an executing ObjecTime model to send and receive messages
in real-time (via TCP/IP) to directly control hardware, interlink
multiple ObjecTime models for very large designs, or communicate with
any other UNIX process.

The high-level object-oriented concepts are independent of programming
language. Either C++ or ObjecTime's Rapid Prototyping Language (based
on Smalltalk-80) may be used at the detailed design level.  To broaden
the appeal of ObjecTime's ability to intermix graphical design content
with detailed level programming, 4.0 contains improved C++ support. In
addition to the GNU compiler, CFront from AT&T is now supported.

ObjecTime 4.0 also includes a wide variety of other enhancements,
including more flexible system layering, keyword searching for
requirements traceability and reuse browsing, and graphical support for
large state-machine and object structure diagrams.

ObjecTime is vended by ObjecTime Limited, an independent software
company established as a spin-off from Bell-Northern Research (BNR).
Northern Telecom, BNR's parent, has granted ObjecTime Limited
world-wide license rights to state-of-the-art software design tool
technology developed at BNR's lab in Ottawa, Canada. ObjecTime Limited
develops and markets software design tools for the telecommunications,
aerospace, and manufacturing control industries and was formed from the
group in BNR that originated the technology.


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