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Articles in March, 1996 issue of Software Magazine

• Sybase to buy Visual Components as OCXes get hotter - OLE custom controls - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Cross-platform kit has Noorda backing - Willows Software's source libraries and binary code for its TwinXPDK; the company is backed by Ray Noorda - Product Information - Brief Article
• Dun & Bradstreet will say good-bye to parent - Dun & Bradstreet Software is put up for sale by parent Dun & Bradstreet Corp - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
  by Jack Vaughan
• Developers benefit from a process blueprint - an 'assembly-line' approach to software development ensures repeatable processes - includes related articles on Carnegie-Mellon's Capability Maturity Model, and on the customization of process-management softw
  by Richard Adhikari
• SQA LoadTest 4.0 - SQA Inc's load, stress, and multiuser testing package for Windows client/server applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• NetWorker Database Module for Oracle - Legato Systems Inc's online backup software for Oracle7 databases on Unix - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• OS/390 is born, long live MVS - IBM Watch - Our Back Pages - Product Information - Column
  by Mark Lillycrop
• Corrections & omissions - Correction Notice
• New Mac tools, including a Roaster for Java - Apple's Essential Tool Objects and Macintosh Programmers Workbench Pro development software; Natural Intelligence Inc's Roaster Professional for developing Java applications on the Macintosh - Brief Article -
• Object-relational ties that bind: while Informix buys Illustra, Sybase taps Persistence - Informix Software Inc acquires Illustra Information Technologies Inc, and Sybase joins with Persistence Software to develop integrated object-relational database pro
  by Daniela Cimino
• Acquisitions, mergers - Random Events - News Briefs
  by Kim Hefner
• Total FrameWork addresses business process - Cincom Systems Inc's component-based assembly environment for creating customized business process applications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Pronto Secure - CommTouch Software Inc's secure e-mail package - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Tun Plus 8.0 - Esker's PC communications software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• IBM gathers Moss & Co - IBM acquires Tivoli Systems Inc; Tivoli head Frank Moss will lead IBM's systems management product line - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Quick Server messaging served up by Wayfarer - Wayfarer Communications Inc's Quick Server message Router - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Fact on Unix - Fact Inc's Fact EnSync CAM software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Textron stays on client/server course - Textron Financial Corp migrates its mission-critical legacy applications from a mainframe environment to client/server - Company Operations - Cover Story
  by Michael Bucken
• GO! - Seque Software Inc's packaged test script for automatic software testing - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• SM-Arch Database Backup Module - Software Moguls Inc's database backup software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• April calendar - News Briefs
• IBI looks outside for "satellite technology." - Information Builders Inc signs development agreements with several third parties for its EDA/SQL middleware - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Lotusphere brings Notes components - Lotus's Notes Components debut at the Lotusphere show - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Help desks, too, get Internet fever; Answer, Vantive update their offerings for Websters - Platinum Technology's Answer Systems Lab provides Aspen Technology with a beta of the Apriori Hands-Free Internet-based help desk software, and Vantive Corp's VanWe
  by Jack Vaughan
• New ventures, expansions - Random Events - News Briefs
  by Kim Hefner
• CKS MyNet provides secure single sign-on - CKS North America's LAN security software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Desktop Observatory 4.0 - Pinnacle Technology's OS/2 network security software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• HTML Transit - InfoAccess Inc's publishing software transforms word processor and graphics files into Web pages - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Letters - Letter to the Editor
• At Novell, WordPerfect is out - Novell sells the WordPerfect word processing software line and other desktop applications to Corel Corp - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Challengers eye U.S. enterprise tools market; with SAP thriving, a host of firms will go for the gold - Industry Trend or Event
  by Elizabeth Harding
• Agreements - Random Events - News Briefs
  by Kim Hefner
• Dixons delivers on command - Dixons Stores Group's automated distribution centers use Boole & Babbage Inc's Command/Post systems management software - Product Information
  by George Black
• SmartGate - Virtual Open Network Environment Corp's transaction-based network security software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Reflection for Windows 95 and NT - WRQ's host connectivity software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• TI heeds Internet call - Texas Instruments forms an Internet unit to leverage its Composer client/server software for the Internet - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• FileNet agrees to acquire Saros - FileNet Corp acquires Saros Corp - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Where the money goes - a Dataquest report on IT software spending - Industry Trend or Event - Brief Article
• When security isn't what it seems - security in distributed computing environments - includes a related article on the role of firewalls in corporate Internet strategies - Technology Information
  by Rosemary Cafasso
• QC/Recall - CenterLine Software Inc's quality automation software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• BudTool 4.4 - PDC's network backup and retrieval management software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Lotus and IBM renew marriage vows in Florida - Lotus Notes Release 4 debuts at the Lotusphere '96 show in Orlando - Reporter's Notebook - Our Back Pages - Company Business and Marketing - Column
  by Colleen Frye
• A 4GL future? - fourth-generation languages for creating enterprise applications - Technology Information - Column
  by Martin A. Goetz
• Tot ziens, Vermeer! - Microsoft acquires Vermeer Technologies, which recently introduced the FrontPage software for creating and maintaining interactive Web sites - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Tools vendors look to milk Java: How quickly can a language go from 0 to 60? - development software for Sun's Java language - Technology Information
  by Jack Vaughan
• Executive moves - Random Events - News Briefs
  by Kim Hefner
• Object efforts gravitate - Microsoft's OLE architecture and the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture - Technology Information
  by George Lawton
• The Enterprise Process Continuum 4.0 - EPC - Platinum Technology Inc's client/server-based process and project management software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• ServerStor 2.0 - McAfee's network storage management software for NetWare - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• OS/2 Warp gets Blyth endorsement - Blyth Software Inc will port its Omnis client/server development platform to OS/2 Warp - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Boole finds Synergy partners - Boole & Babbage's Synergy program for its Ensign R3 event management products signs up three new partners - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Gupta: the next generation - Gupta Corp reorganizes - Company Operations - Brief Article
  by Deborah Melewski
• Miscellaneous - Random Events - News Briefs
  by Kim Hefner
• AR System help desk available for Windows NT - Remedy Corp's Action Request System 2.1 for Windows NT help desk software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• PowerTelNet - FSA Corp's encrypting remote login system for secure data communications - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• MultiView DeskTop Plus - JSB Corp's MultiView Desktop Unix connectivity software bundled with Spyglass's Mosaic browser and ICL's Embla e-mail software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Performance Software opens door on test tool - version 5.0 of the V-Test automated software testing tool - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Internet colors document doings - Novasoft's NovaWeb integrates Netscape Communications' Navigator Web browser with the NovaManage document management software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Life at the high end - Landmark Systems Corp's NaviPlex software simplifies performance management in IBM's Parallel Sysplex environment - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• Empower to the people - employee self-service in client/server human resource management systems - Technology Information
  by Kym Gilhooly
• Insure++ 3.0 - ParaSoft Corp's automatic runtime error detection software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• LANtegrity for NetWare version 3.4 - Network Integrity Inc's network backup software - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• It's client/server time, but the movin' ain't easy - Editor's Letter - Editorial
  by Michael W. Bucken
• Of American Software - American Software joins with Intellimedia Sports Inc to form Intellimedia Commerce Inc, which will develop Internet-based point-of-sale systems - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
• Briefly noted - News Briefs - Brief Article
• IT decision-making on the move? - Software Fact - Brief Article - Illustration
• Whistle while you workflow - how the employee self-service model can streamline human resources management - Technology Information
  by Kym Gilhooly
• PVCS Tracker 3.0 - Intersolv Inc's problem-tracking software for application development - Brief Article - Product Announcement
• FDR/Upstream version 2.4.5 - Innovation Data Processing's micro-mainframe communications software for unattended backup and restore of PC and LAN data on mainframes - Brief Article - Product Announcement