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Articles in Sept, 1992 issue of Software Magazine

• Escaping estimate grip - the problem of basing information system project estimates on insufficient information - Forum: Open Files - Column
  by William W. Marks
• Russian group to battle software pirates - the Moscow-based Software Association - Newsfront - Brief Article
• OS/2 slowly gains on Windows; succeeding as development, server platform - Field Report: Client/Server Computing
  by Mike Bucken
• Lotus wins round - Lotus Development Corp.'s copyright suit against Borland International Inc - Field Report: Industry - Brief Article
  by Mike Bucken
• Philippine bank creating distributed architecture; bank downsizes applications processing to Unix in plan for data distribution - Philippine National Bank - Global Software Experiences
  by Elizabeth U. Harding
• Bachman/Shared Work Manager supports parallel development - Bachman Information Systems Inc.'s workgroup application development software package - New Products: Microcomputer - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Predict for DB2 - Software AG's DB2 version of its user-extensible Predict data dictionary - New Products: Mainframes: DB2 Tools - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Zephyr - Paralogic Inc.'s graphical integrated programming environment - New Products: Minicomputers: CASE - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Objects in start-up mode - object-oriented databases gain in popularity - Editor's Letter - Editorial
  by John Desmond
• Brazilian food giant downsizes to Unix - Sadia converts its Cobol systems running on IBM mainframes to LAN- and Unix-based systems - Newsfront - Brief Article
• VMark bets on tenacity of proprietary systems - VMark Software Inc.'s uniVerse software will eventually allow applications written for most proprietary platforms to run under Unix - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Product Briefs - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Neuron Data, Inc - Field Report: Companies on the Move - Brief Article
• Building tomorrow's legacy systems today: companies developing open systems guidelines based on Unix, formal and informal standards
  by Jim Johnson
• ES RE/Vision rewrites, audits Cobol programs - Eden Systems Corp.'s reengineering and measurement tool for Cobol - New Products: Mainframe - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• DB2 Toolkit Version 100 - Innovative DP Designs' integrated tools for database administrators, systems programmers and applications programmers - New Products: Mainframes: DB2 Tools - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• DBAMaster 2.0 - Management Information Technology Inc.'s Oracle database monitoring and tuning tool - New Products: Minicomputers: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Tracking the elusive seconds - a continuing series on implementing a client/server system - Technology Transfer - Column - Tutorial
  by Ted C. Keller
• DataEase expects client/server to boost U.S. sales - DataEase International Inc. readies new client/server database management systems and tools - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Gupta commits to Microsoft ODBC API - Gupta Technologies Inc. will support Microsoft Corp.'s Open Database Connectivity application programming interface - Newsfront - Brief Article
• News in Brief - Newsfront - Brief Article
• DEC acts on security; unit sets new policy for corporate IS - DEC's Information Security Group - Field Report: Systems Management
  by Judith Hodges
• Compuware Corp - Field Report: Companies on the Move - Brief Article
• Tracking IBM's SystemView: Breakthrough or ballyhoo? IBM still needs to deliver data model, applications, to make vision a reality
  by Paul Korzeniowski
• HP OpenView 3.0 includes OSF DME technologies - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s OpenView version 3.0 systems management software supports the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Management Environment - New Products: Minicomputer - Brief Article - Product Announ
• Space Recovery Facility Version 2.0 - Softworks' space recovery program for DASD management - New Products: Mainframes: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• DB Designer Release 3.1 - Cadre Technologies Inc.'s workbench for database design and reengineering - New Products: Minicomputers: CASE - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• UIS-Manager - version 2.2 of UIS Inc.'s systems management tool - New Products: Minicomputers: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• StarWatch 3.00 - Pathfinder Inc.'s management tool for small- to medium-sized projects - New Products: Microcomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Getting to performance - implementing an application redevelopment strategy in MIS - Forum: Open Files - Column
  by Charlotte Hart Riordan
• Legent completes plan for overlapping products - Legent Corp.'s overlapping systems management product lines after its acquisition of Goal Systems International Inc - Newsfront - Brief Article
• CEO: merged AICorp/Aion will not cut products - artificial intelligence companies AICorp. and Aion Corp. will not eliminate products following their merger - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Workflow extends imaging; IBM leads push toward new software technology - the Association for Image and Information Management Conference - Field Report: Applications Management
  by Elizabeth U. Harding
• Briefs - Field Report - Brief Article
• Distributed DB2 proving difficult; referential integrity not cross-platform; Illinois Power team selectively implements - IBM's relational Structured Query Language-based DB2 database management system does not support referential integrity across hardwar
  by Emily Leinfuss
• Kurtzig's encore ends; Falotti takes the stage; reorganization and Ingres acquisition pumped up fiscally faltering Ask Computer - Ask Computer Systems Inc. Chmn and CEO Sandra Kurtzig resigns and is replaced by Pier Carlo Falotti - Cover Story
  by John Desmond
• Omegacenter - Candle Corp.'s bidirectional interface between the Omegacenter integrated enterprise systems management products and IBM's NetView - New Products: Mainframes: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Change Manager - BMC Software's program for automating DB2 data structure changes across subsystems - New Products: Mainframes: DB2 Tools - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• ChangeVision for SoftBench - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s software change-request management environment - New Products: Minicomputers: CASE - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• T-Base Version 3 - Videotex Systems Inc.'s advanced picture and document imaging library - New Products: Microcomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Calendar: October
• MAI shedding hardware for c/s software - MAI Systems Corp.'s Unix-based client-server integrated accounting system - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Comshare shifts focus beyond EIS - Comshare Inc. enhances its Commander executive information system software and renames it a managerial software application - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Pyramid vies to assuage PC security fears - Pyramid Development Corp.'s PC/Dacs and Net/Dacs security software - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Keeping talent at home: Northern Ireland seeks to halt developer exodus - software engineers in Northern Ireland - Field Report: Global Software
  by Mike Bucken
• IBM redirects AD/Cycle; shift is to smaller, networked platforms - Field Report: CASE
  by Steve Polilli
• Knowledge systems and Case converging; vendors offering bridges between KBS, Case; developers now working on "smart" Case tools - computer-aided software engineering, knowledge-based systems
  by Jessica Keyes
• More features overlapping between DBMS, OLTP monitors; as applications decouple from DBMS, role of OLTP monitor gains in stature - database management systems; on-line transaction processing
  by Paul Korzeniowski
• Best/1-Datacenter Release 2.0 - BGS Systems Inc.'s performance analysis, tuning and capacity planning system for MVS and VM environments - New Products: Mainframes: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• AS/SET - System Software Associates' enhanced computer-aided software engineering products - New Products: Minicomputers: CASE - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• On Track for Training - DKSystems Inc.'s training software package for client/server networks - New Products: Microcomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement