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Articles in Dec, 1992 issue of Software Magazine

• Legent looks to expand Unix offerings - Legent Corp. signs development agreements with Sun Microsystems Inc., Visix Software Inc. and PeerLogic Inc - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Metaphor expects DSS resurgence - IBM subsidiary Metaphor bases its future success on increased interest in decision support systems - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Wang adds open versions of VS software - Wang Laboratories Inc.'s AIX-based version of its repository-based Pace application development system and Cobol resource development toolkit - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Industry shifting pricing schemes; critical users prompt CA's move from tiers - Computer Associates International Inc.'s new pricing plan - Field Report: Enterprise Systems
  by Mike Bucken
• 1992 Ad
  by George Lawton
• Software 1992 index
• RMT/VMS Toolkit - Advanced Software Products Group Inc.'s decision support tool for managing systems capacity and utilization - New Products: Mainframe: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• CDB/SuperReorg version 2.0 for DB2 - CDB Software Inc.'s software for reorganizing DB2 indexes and table spaces - New Products: Mainframe: DB2 Tools - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• ShelfSpace - Infodata Systems Inc.'s document management software - New Products: Mainframe: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• AS/SET Workstation Development Kernel for Unix - System Software Associates' program converts AS/SET developed RPG applications for the AS/400 into C programs for the RS/6000 and SCO-Unix workstations - New Products: Minicomputers: Case - Brief Article -
• TrackStar - T and B Computing's project management software - New Products: Minicomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Focus for Unix Release 6.5 - Information Builders Inc.'s fourth generation language/application development product - New Products: Minicomputers: Data Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• DMS/IB for OS/2 - Sterling Software's PC hard disk backup and file management program - New Products: Microcomputers: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Systems Engineering version 4 - LBMS Inc.'s repository-based multiuser computer-aided software engineering program - New Products: Microcomputers: Case - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Calendar
• Towards lucid language - the importance of programming clearly understandable code - Forum: Open Files - Column
  by Jerry Sitner
• Start-up joins integrated CASE market - Software Emancipation Technology Inc.'s ParaSet computer-aided software engineering product line - Newsfront - Brief Article
• PowerSoft adds multivendor C/S framework - PowerSoft Corp. signs agreements with Microsoft Corp., Bachman Information Systems Inc. and LBMS Inc. for its Client/Server Open Development Environment - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Product Briefs - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Partnerships key - DEC's Alpha computers will depend on third-party software vendors for success, according to company officials - Field Report: Industry - Brief Article
  by Mike Bucken
• Desperately seeking database independence: options for accessing diverse corporate data growing, but multiplatform transparency elusive - Database Management/DBMS
  by Lori Weitz
• Paris Metro riding DCE as route to distributed; early user migrating Unix applications; OSF, others to supply missing pieces - the Regie Autonome des Transport Parisiens' use of the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment - Global Sof
  by Marsha W. Johnston
• Cobol Analyst maintains CICS applications - Seec Inc.'s Seec/Care Cobol Analyst/CICS 1.5 - New Products: Microcomputer - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• ExtrAuditnaire/MVS release 1.1 - Audit Serve Inc.'s expert system for data center and software development life cycle reviews - New Products: Mainframe: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Multitrak version 2.8 - Multitrak Software Development Corp.'s project and resource management system - New Products: Mainframe: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• CodeCenter 4.0 - CenterLine Software Inc.'s Unix C programming environment - New Products: Minicomputers: Case - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• CustomerQ 2.0 - Quintus Corp.'s customizable customer information system - New Products: Minicomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• DEC FullSail - DEC's modular applications for distributed Unix system management - New Products: Minicomputers: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• MagicWin - Magic Solutions Inc.'s Windows-specific front-end module for Support Magic-Help Desk and Asset Management Software - New Products: Microcomputers: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Micro Focus Cobol version 3.0 - Micro Focus's program development software - New Products: Microcomputers: Case - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Project/2 Series X - Project Software & Development Inc.'s project management software package - New Products: Microcomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• AD/today: a guide to application development - IBM's AD/Cycle products and services - special advertising supplement
• Bachman to use start-up's tools in C/S effort - Bachman Information Systems Inc. will use technology from Evolutionary Technologies Inc. for converting legacy data to relational database management systems in client/server environments - Newsfront - Brief
• Siemens Nixdorf joins hands with Microsoft - Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. sign a cooperative agreement - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Film institute grooms professionals for multimedia - the American Film Institute's AFI-Apple Computer Center offers seminars and workshops on the 'moving image computer media' market - Newsfront - Brief Article
• IBM lends a standard; OIW adopts CPI-C as first non-OSI API - the Open Systems Environment Implementors Workshop adopts the common programming interface for communications technology as its recommended application programming interface for transaction pro
  by Henry Heffernan
• Survival secrets: Cincom credits open shift for long life - Cincom Systems Inc. Pres, CEO and founder Tom Nies - Field Report: Q & A - Interview
  by Mike Bucken
• A survival guide for administrators: what you need to know for overseeing an open, mixed, distributed system - Systems Management
  by Jim Johnson
• WordPerfect 5.1 released for the X Window System - WordPerfect Corp.'s WordPerfect 5.1 word processing software package - New Products: Minicomputer - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Graphical Network Control version 2.0 - Software Engineering of America's network monitoring and control program for Vtam resources in SNA networks - New Products: Mainframe: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Unload Plus version 1.2 - BMC Software Inc.'s unload utility program - New Products: Mainframe: DB2 Tools - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• TreeSoft version 2.1 - +1 Software Engineering's Unix-based software engineering environment - New Products: Minicomputers: Case - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• ObjectStore - version 2.0 of Object Design Inc.'s object-oriented database management system - New Products: Minicomputers: Data Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• AceFile 2.0 for Windows - Ace Software's file management software package - New Products: Microcomputers: Data Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Snap - version 5.0 of Sales Technologies Inc.'s sales and marketing software package - New Products: Microcomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• NT looming over Unix space - Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT creates uncertainty in the Unix market - Editor's Letter - Editorial
  by John Desmond
• Unix workstations moving down to within MIS reach - Hewlett-Packard Co. Workstation Systems Group Gen Mgr Gary Eichhorn on the Unix workstation market - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Oracle promises link to Sybase DBMS - Oracle Corp. develops application programming interfaces to competing database management systems - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Lotus replaces Agenda with Organizer - Lotus Development Corp.'s Agenda personal information management software is deemphasized in favor of the company's new personal information management program, Lotus Organizer - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Software targets PC theft - IDX Technologies Inc.'s Computer Owner Protection code-bearing software uniquely identifies personal computers - Newsfront - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• News in Brief - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Queue jocks go on air; WordPerfect, Lotus add support traffic reports - Lotus Development Corp. and WordPerfect Corp. provide live entertainment while callers to their telephone support lines wait for technicians - Field Report: Client/Server Computing
  by Steve Polilli
• Field Report: Briefs - new executive appointments, marketing agreements and other software industry news
• IBM's APPN battling to control backbone; mainframe version delays, licensing fees, Cisco's APPI all plague IBM's net protocol - the Advanced Program-to-Program Networking protocol - Client/Server Computing
  by Paul Korzeniowski
• Software financiers feed industry's growth; Morby of TA, Patterson of Accel among leading software venture capitalists - TA Associates Sr Gen Partner Jacqueline Morby and Accel Partners Managing Partner Arthur Patterson - Cover Story
  by John Desmond
• Vital Signs for Vtam 2.0 - BlueLine Software Inc.'s Vtam performance monitor for MVS, VSE and VM sites - New Products: Mainframe: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• iXBuild 2.0 - iXOS Software GmbH's OSF/Motif graphical user interface development tool - New Products: Minicomputers: Case - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Vision 2.0 Enterprise Geographic Information System - from GeoVision Systems Inc - New Products: Minicomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• RoboCharge V3 - CIS's resource accounting and chargeback system - New Products: Minicomputers: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• SuperStor Pro - Addstor Inc.'s data compression software package - New Products: Microcomputers: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Sterling TestPro 5.0 - Sterling Software's program development software - New Products: Microcomputers: Case - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• FrameMaker 3.0 for Windows - Frame Technology Corp.'s document publishing software package - New Products: Microcomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Redevelop in pieces - Business Process Reengineering must be implemented by corporate information systems departments - Forum: Open Files - Column
  by Stephen Errico
• HP:RDBMS players unlikely to add OO layer - Hewlett-Packard Co. OpenODB Marketing Mgr Douglas Dedo says relational database management system vendors cannot enhance their products with object-oriented database functionality - Newsfront - Brief Article
• Gemstone supports 100 users in test - Sequent Computer Systems Inc.'s symmetric multiprocessor accommodates 100 concurrent users of Servio Corp.'s Gemstone object-oriented database management system - Newsfront - Brief Article
• IBM touts interoperability; Texas lab to develop multivendor systems - IBM's U.S. Open Systems Center multivendor development and testing lab - Field Report: Open Systems
  by Steve Polilli
• Using documentation as a life-cycle tool; integrating document, development tools improves quality throughout product's life - computer-aided software engineering
  by Mary Hanna
• MainScript for DOS allows 3270 session automation - AutoSoft Inc.'s micro-mainframe scripting tool - New Products: Mainframe - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• APMPower - Programart Corp.'s application performance analysis system - New Products: Mainframe: Systems Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Playback 5.1 - Compuware Corp.'s automated testing tool for the DB2 applications programming - New Products: Mainframe: DB2 Tools - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Deskpad - Macro 4's electronic mail, meeting scheduler and personal diary system - New Products: Mainframe: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• A+ Warehouse Management - version 2.0 of Daly & Wolcott's warehouse module for its Application Plus inventory management product line - New Products: Minicomputers: Applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Reporter Nomad for VAX/VMS - Must Software International's report writer - New Products: Minicomputers: Data Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Fulcrum Ful/Text version 6 - Fulcrum Technologies Inc.'s indexing and text retrieval software package - New Products: Microcomputers: Data Management - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• A 'do-it-yourself' guide - the software engineering implementation life cycle - Technology Transfer - Column
  by Roger S. Pressman