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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                   Third Party Product Announcements

SunFLASH Vol 48 #4					       December 1992 
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       SmartStar Corporation Announces Minimum-Code Client-Server
                        Application Development

                  Dedicated MS Windows to UNIX E-mail

             ANS CO+RE EXPANDS FAMILY OF SECURITY SERVICES

              New Liken Features; Package Supports E-mail

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Subject: 	SmartStar Corporation Announces Minimum-Code 
		Client-Server Application Development
Newsgroups: 	comp.newprod
From: 		smrtstr!frank@uu.psi.com (Frank Dziuba)
Organization: 	SmartStar Corp. / Signal Technolgy Inc.
Phone:		(805)-685-8000
E-mail: 	US West coast: Gabe Messner     gabe@smartstar.com
E-mail:		US East coast: Steve Powers     spowers@smartstar.com


             SmartStar Corporation Announces Minimum-Code
                 Client-Server Application Development

          First Object-Oriented Product for Creating Portable,
                       SQL Database Applications

GOLETA, Calif. - November 2, 1992 - SmartStar Corporation today
announced SmartStar Vision (TM) , a new object-oriented software
product for client-server application development in organizations that
have heterogeneous environments consisting of PCs with MS/Windows,
Apple Macintoshes and X-window systems.  Based upon the integration of
a set of general purpose database objects with a Graphical User
Interface (GUI), SmartStar Vision minimizes the coding effort required
to create client-server applications.  The initial product release is
aimed at organizations that currently have application needs with
X-window systems, using the industry standard Motif graphical user
interface.  Application servers supported are Sun Sparc, DEC Ultrix and
DEC VMS operating systems.  Client systems supported include MS/Windows
and Apple Macintosh operating systems running X-server network
software, X-terminals and any X-systems.  "We have created the
industry's first general purpose set of database objects that are
integrated with graphical user interface objects" explained Dr. John
Markel, president of SmartStar.  "This approach allows application
developers who work on general purpose day-to-day business
applications, the power and flexibility of object-oriented technology,
but without the complexity.  For the manager, this technology results
in more applications, with less code, in less time and with much less
long term maintenance effort."

SmartStar Vision allows for rapid application development of all
standard GUI window styles such as scrolling columnar displays, and
invoice order form displays.  Completely general multi-table SQL
insert, update, delete and select operations including arbitrary
qualification is allowed, without coding.  The only coding required to
convert a prototype to a production application is to implement the
basic business rules or requirements that define the purpose of the
application.  All multi-window menu interfacing, including multi-level
menu support is supported without coding.

This general purpose set of database objects is created and managed
within the same object-oriented architecture as the GUI objects. The
database objects include a complete set of methods that encapsulate
all of the standard run-time SQL behavior as a function of the
particular style of window used in the application.  Most importantly,
these methods are extendible by the developer with a standards-based
4GL called SmartGL.  This language can then be used to implement the
business rules that define the ultimate value of the application.
Rather than the developer having to maintain and edit complex SQL
syntax intermingled with status testing and conditional operations,
the business rules that require code are defined as 4GL attributes to
the appropriate database objects. The behavior of the database methods
is then modified internally by these object attributes.

Markel provided an example.  "If the business requirement is to
produce invoice displays with order items displayed in a last-in
first-out basis, along with flexible run-time query, the total coding
in the application is the business rule 'InvoiceDate Desc' entered
into the 'OrderBy' attribute for the 'DetailView' object of the
database hierarchy.  Creating this same capability (even without the
flexible query ability) is a two to three week task with a GUI
builder, and generally takes at least several hours or several days
with most 4GL products.  SmartStar Vision can create this type of
application in literally five minutes.  Because of its object-oriented
design, SmartStar Vision provides the minimum code solution to
client-server application development."

The server portion of SmartStar Vision contains a sophisticated
heterogeneous multiple SQL database query optimizer and distributor,
based on the technology developed by SmartStar Corporation over the
last ten years for its VAX 4GL product, SmartStar VMS.  Relational
databases supported by SmartStar Vision include an internal SQL
database processor using the operating system files (RMS for VMS, or
CISAM for UNIX), or industry standard SQL databases including Oracle,
Ingres, Sybase and Rdb.

SmartStar Corporation is currently developing additional desktop
application servers for future release, and will support other
computer systems.  The first release of SmartStar Vision, including
all database options is available now.  Single seat pricing for a
developer system is $12,000 with deployment pricing from $75 to $600
per license depending on quantity.

SmartStar Corporation was founded in 1977.  It has been a market
leader in the DEC VAX-4GL area and was the first provider of a VAX-4GL
in 1984.  It offers extensive customer support and professional
services, including training courses, toll-free telephone support and
maintenance and upgrade services.  SmartStar has offices nationwide
and sells products in Canada, Europe and Asia through international
distributors.

For more information about SmartStar or its products, call (805)-685-8000.
or send E-mail to 
West coast: Gabe Messner     gabe@smartstar.com
East coast: Steve Powers     spowers@smartstar.com

SmartStar and SmartStar Vision are trademarks of SmartStar
Corporation.  Other Brands or products are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

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Subject:	Dedicated MS Windows to UNIX E-mail
Newsgroups:	comp.newprod
From: 	    	steve@unipalm.co.uk (Steve Ladlow)
Organization: 	Unipalm Ltd.
Mail:		216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Contact:	Pat Lucas
Voice: 		+44 223 420002
Fax: 		+44 223 426868
E-mail: 	mail-it@unipalm.co.uk

         UNIPALM LAUNCHES UK'S FIRST PC TO UNIX E-MAIL PACKAGE

Unipalm Limited, the UK's leading PC to UNIX connectivity software supplier,
has launched Mail-it, the UK's first dedicated MS Windows to UNIX e-mail 
package.

Conforming to open systems industry standards, Mail-it enables Microsoft
Windows users to send and reply to messages anywhere on a PC and UNIX 
network. Prior to Mail-it, a network manager wanting to integrate a PC 
network e-mail system into a UNIX one had to rely on expensive and 
inefficient gatewaying technology. This would link the LAN e-mail system's 
proprietary messaging protocols to the UNIX open standard.

Mail-it is a MS Windows application that allows PC users to link directly
with existing UNIX e-mail systems using the 'open' standard mail transfer
protocols: SMTP and POP-2. 

Mail-it enables users to read, send, forward, reply, print and save e-mail.
It also includes an alert function to automatically inform the user of
incoming mail, which is stored in an 'in-tray' folder ready to read. 
Corporate auditing requirements are fulfilled by an optional log which 
records all mailsent and a comprehensive filing system to archive and 
find previous messages.For high volume users a task management facility 
performs repetitive jobsquickly and a forms facility delivers a custom 
format for ordering, invoicing and so on.

Due to Mail-it's modular architecture, there exists an upgrade path to 
emerging Open Standards such as Multi-media mail (MIME), and Privacy 
Enhanced Mail (PEM). This architecture also offers the ability to readily 
support additional third party networking software.

	Features
	========

	MS Windows 3.x compatible

	Supports full text cut and paste

	On-line help fully explains use without the need
	to reference documentation

	Mouse and keyboard driven 

	Shortcut keys giving fast access to all main functions


	Mail Facilities
	===============

	Read, Send, Forward, Reply, Print, Save

	Alert function automatically informs you of incoming mail

	Flexible filing system allows you to easily keep track of all your
	correspondence, and optionally logs all mail sent.

	Task management facility enables you to perform repetitive tasks
	quickly.

	Search facility allows you to locate a specific, single message 
	or category of messages.

	Form facility allows use of fixed format messages such as purchase
	requests, telephone and fax messages.


	Networking Standards
	====================

	Conforms to Open Systems Standards

	Compatibility with a large number of computer types, operating 
	systems and E-mail programs.

	Easy integration into mixed architecture networks.

	Does not require shared network drives.

	Upgrade path to emerging standards.


	Compatibility
	=============  

	SMTP (RFC 821), Standard Internet Message Format (RFC 822), 
	POP-2 (RFC937)

	
	System Requirements
	===================

	Microsoft Windows 3.0 or above.

	SunSelect's PC-NFS 4.0 or FTP Software's PC/TCP v2.1 or
	Novell's LAN Workplace for DOS 4.0.1 (or later versions of
	any of these programs).

	1.5Mb free disk space to accomodate Mail-it and to store messages.

	A mail server that can accomodate a SMTP and POP-2 service.
	      


Mail-it is available now.              

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Subject: 	ANS CO+RE EXPANDS FAMILY OF SECURITY SERVICES
Newsgroups: 	comp.newprod
From: 		edeline@ans.net (Edeline Cantave)
Organization: 	Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY
Contact:  	Susan Eldred (eldred@ans.net)
Email:		info@ans.net

		ANS CO+RE EXPANDS FAMILY OF SECURITY SERVICES

Elmsford, NY . . . . . ANS CO+RE Systems, Inc., has announced that it
is expanding and enhancing its InterLock family of IP network security
services.  InterLock (a servicemark of ANS CO+RE) is an array of
application-level security services that controls all network access
between the Internet and a private IP network and/or between segments
of an organization's private IP network.

When InterLock was introduced in October 1991, it was comprised of
security-enhanced versions of TELNET, file transfer protocol (FTP) and
simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) services.  With the most recent
announcement, InterLock services now include security-enhanced
versions of X window system and network news transfer (NNTP)
protocols, plus the support for end-to-end encryption on all services.
The encryption is based upon DES, and it is available between two or
more InterLocks.

Access to each of the InterLock services is controlled via a rules
base, which is configured by the InterLock administrator at the
enterprise network's location.  Use of a particular service, including
encryption, can be granted or denied based on any combination of
userid, time of day, day of the week, private/public network address
and private/public host address criteria designated by the
administrator.  Once a user is authenticated, communication to and
>From both sides of the InterLock occurs transparently.  Each service
provides login tracking, audit and reporting features.

InterLock services are not only effective, they also are easy to
integrate into a private IP network, because ANS CO+RE designed them
as a true turnkey package.  Installation of hardware and software is
provided to the customer, as is the initial configuration of services
and 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a week maintenance and support.  ANS
CO+RE also offers training for InterLock administrators.

InterLock services are leased on a yearly basis; prices range from
$18,500-$29,000, based on the configuration of services selected.  The
enhanced version of the InterLock family will be demonstrated at this
week's InterOp conference and will be available November 30.

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Subject: 	New Liken Features; Package Supports E-mail
From: 		Douglas Cooper <coopiver@CERF.NET>
Contact:	Tom Carroll, Doug Cooper
Org:		Cooper/Iverson Marketing
Phone:		(619) 292-7400
Contact:	Ray Wagstaffe, President
Contact:	Dave McMillen, Chief Technical Officer
Org:		Xcelerated Systems, Inc.
Phone:		(619) 576-3081

           TWO NEWS RELEASES: E-MAIL PACKAGES AND A NEW DEMO

"SHRINK-WRAPPED" MACINTOSH E-MAIL PACKAGES CAN NOW BE
RUN ON SUN AND HP WORKSTATIONS

Liken Software From Xcelerated Systems Opens Up Microsoft Mail,
Quickmail and cc:Mail For Users of Sun and HP Workstations


SAN DIEGO, November 11, 1992 -- Microsoft Mail, Quickmail, and
cc:Mail have been added to the substantial list of "shrink-wrapped"
Macintosh applications supported by Liken.  According to Dave McMillen,
chief technical officer for Xcelerated Systems, Inc. (XSI), this is an
announcement that has significant impact on thousands of corporate users
and administrators around the world.  He says, "Yesterday, there were
three major e-mail packages that didn't work on Unix systems.  With
the introduction of our latest version of Liken, today they do."

Since it was delivered in January of this year, Liken has allowed users of
Unix workstations with the X Window environment to run such Mac
applications as Claris FileMaker Pro, MacDraw and MacProject,
Microsoft Word and Powerpoint and QuarkXpress and Canvas without
modification.

According to McMillen, before this version of Liken, Unix users had to
depend entirely on SMTP mail tools.  He sees Liken as an enabling
technology that brings these disenfranchised Unix users "into the fold" of
corporate-wide mainstream computing.  He says, "For the first time, there
isn't a communication gap between Macintoshes, SPARCstations and 
PA-RISC workstations.  They all work together by communicating
effectively."

Founded in 1989, Xcelerated Systems provides enabling technology so that
diverse computer platforms can be used for mission critical and
commodity applications in a seamless networking environment.  The
company's products are sold nationally and internationally to Fortune 500
companies, and are found in widely divergent applications including
government, industry, business, science and education.

For more information, contact Xcelerated Systems, 9245 Sky Park Court,
Suite 130, San Diego, CA  92123; (619) 576-3080.

# # #



XCELERATED SYSTEMS OFFERS "A TASTE OF LIKEN,"

DEMO RUNS MAC APPLICATIONS ON SUN AND HP WORKSTATIONS

Xcelerated Systems' new demo package makes it easier to learn how
running today's most popular Macintosh applications on a Unix workstation
can enhance productivity in offices, labs and agencies


SAN DIEGO, November 11, 1992 -- Xcelerated Systems, Inc. (XSI) is
announcing a new, easy-to-use demo for its Liken* software which
provides for simple installation.  Liken enables users of Sun
SPARCstations, Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC workstations and
attached X Terminals to run "shrink-wrapped" Macintosh applications
without modification.

According to Dave McMillen, chief technology officer with XSI, developing
this easy-to-use demo disk became more important as the worldwide
popularity of Liken increased.  He says, "Liken software is compatible
with such Macintosh applications as Claris FileMaker Pro, MacDraw and
MacProject, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint and
QuarkXpress and Canvas.  This has generated a tremendous demand for
an easy to use Liken demo."

Founded in 1989, Xcelerated Systems provides enabling technology so that
diverse computer platforms can be used for mission critical and
commodity applications in a seamless networking environment.  The
company's products are sold nationally and internationally to Fortune 500
companies, and are found in widely divergent applications including
government, industry, business, science and education.

For more information, contact Xcelerated Systems, 9245 Sky Park Court,
Suite 130, San Diego, CA  92123; (619) 576-3080.
# # #

Liken is a trademark of Xcelerated Systems, Inc.  Xcelerated Systems, Inc.
is not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, International
Business Machines, or Apple Computer, Inc.  Macintosh is a registered
trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.  IBM and RISC System/6000 are
registered trademarks of International Business Machines.  Unix is a
registered trademark of Unix System Laboratories, Inc.  X Window System
is a product of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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