---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Product/Service Announcements SunFLASH Vol 28 #15 April 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- As usual, inclusion of an article here does not imply an endorsement by Sun Microsystems. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AutoPLAN - A NEW Project Management Tool Writeable CD-ROM system: "CD-Maker" announcement OSFAX New Version Running Macintosh Apps on X Workstations NetFind, whitepages service for the Internet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: comp.newprod Subject: AutoPLAN - A NEW Project Management Tool Dear Readers: The following article is from a friend of mine. Any response on this topic may please be sent at the address shown at the end of the article. Thankyou... *************************************************** * * * AutoPLAN - A NEW Project Management Tool * * * *************************************************** AutoPLAN is a comprehensive project management system designed for corporate users using network of Sun Workstations. Making use of Graphical User Interface (GUI) under the OpenLook environment and X Windows flexibility AutoPLAN makes managing your project real easy. Multiple users can plan and track projects at the same time. AutoPLAN supports interactive PERT Charts, Gantt Charts, Histograms and presentation quality output (WYSWYG) either on color monitors, post script printers or multicolor plotters. AutoPLAN uses advance PERT/CPM/Precedence Network algorithms to automate the schedules and perform what-if-analysis. It uses client server architecture there by combining multiple projects or managing resource for multiple projects is possible. AutoPLAN provides you with over 100 user selectable reports and an interactive report writer for customizing your reports. AutoPLAN combines the power of a mainframe planning tool with the ease of use of workstation technology to deliver the best Power/ Simplicity and best Price/Performance. AutoPLAN is a clear choice for Open Systems. AutoPLAN features include: - GUI, WYSIWYG, OPEN WINDOWS - PERT/CPM/PRECEDENCE Network - Over 10,000 Activities/Project - Mile stones, Critical Path, Dead line - Super Network/Sub Network - Over 100 Reports, Barcharts, Histograms - Multi User, Network Support, Site Licence - Resources Analysis Module - Leveling, Resource Constrained Scheduling - Earned value/Cash Flow Analysis - Unique WBS for progress Monitoring - Post Script Printer/Plotter For more Information, please write to : HAL MILLER, Manager Software Sales OR Mohan Uttarwar, President Digital Tools, Inc. 18900 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014. Phone : (408) 366 6920 Fax : (408) 446 2140 E-mail : uunet!apple!motcsd!dti!mohan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: comp.newprod Subject: Writeable CD-ROM system: "CD-Maker" announcement From: yngmnds!stapltn@ucrmath.ucr.edu **********Writable CD-ROM System for Sun's and PC's*********** Young Minds, Inc. announces "CD-Maker", a Writable CD-ROM System for the Sun-3s, Sun-4s, SPARCstations and PCs. Sun and PC users can now create actual CD-ROMs on their desktop that can be read by any CD-ROM drive on the market. Utilizing Young Minds' "Makedisc" CD-ROM formatting software and driver technology in combination with the Sony CD Write-Once (WO) technology, Sun and PC users have the ability to create prototypes and generate low cost, low volume CD-ROM production runs in-house. Actual CD-ROMs for software or data distribution that support UNIX (TM) file naming (using Young Minds' "Original Name Recovery" facilities) can be created with just two easy-to-use commands. The recording medium is an organic dye disc that has a projected media life of more than 10 years and is available for under $40 per disc. For larger volume production runs software vendors and data distributors have the option of mass producing their CD-ROMs. This can be done for as little as $1.60 per disc plus a mastering fee as low as $800. The mastering facilities include a 2 color label and a plastic jewel box in these prices. The Unix program "Makedisc" formats any file set, up to 660 MB, to the international CD-ROM file format standard, ISO 9660. No dedicated hardware is required and NFS accessible network resources can be utilized for source files or output. Even novice users can produce and test CD-ROM images on their Unix workstation. Makedisc automatically handles Unix style names, symbolic links and the many intricacies of ISO formatting. Makedisc then outputs the ISO compliant CD image to tape, CD-WO disc or any other appropriate electronic media. A CD manufacturing facility can take this output and create a metal master that is used for the mass production of CD-ROM discs. "Makedisc", is also available independent of CD-Maker and operates on Sun-3, Sun-4, SPARCstation, 88open architectures, HP 9000UX, IBM RS/6000, Apollo, and NeXT workstations. *************************************************************************** "Makedisc" is an ideal product for software publishers and computer companies to use in replacing magnetic tape with low-cost CD-ROM as their primary distribution medium. *************************************************************************** "CD-Maker", including the Sony CD-WO hardware and Young Minds "Makedisc" software and driver technology lists at $35,500. Young Minds is active in the development and promotion of CD-ROM standards related to Unix. YMi was the first company to produce an ISO 9660 compliant CD-ROM disc for the Unix market, the Free Software Foundations "GNU" library of software source code. Other products from Young Minds include Motif/ OPEN LOOK/Sunview CD-ROM retrieval software and Unix CD-ROM file system drivers. For more information contact: Tom Stapleton (yngmnds!stapltn@ucrmath.ucr.edu) Young Minds, Inc. 308 W. State St. Suite 2B Redlands, CA 92373 Ph: (714) 335-1350 Fax: (714) 798-0488 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: OSFAX New Version From: timw@osiris.osiris.oz.au (Tim Wooller) Newsgroups: comp.newprod The following is the text of the press release for OSFAX. Any questions are best sent by facsimile to the number shown below. OSIRIS TECHNOLOGY RELEASE NEW VERSION OF OSFAX Osiris Technology has just released the newest version of OSFAX, an Australian designed and manufactured high perfor- mance multiuser facsimile management system capable of 9600 baud facsimile transmission and reception. OSFAX consists of a suite of software, a user manual and a facsimile modem which connects to a single RS232 serial port on your host CPU. The OSFAX modem is Austel approved for the Australian environment. OSFAX will receive Group 3 facsimiles at 9600 baud. Upon receipt the facsimiles may be assigned to individual users who are informed by electronic mail of their incoming fac- simile. There are OSFAX utilities to support the printing and viewing of facsimiles on a wide range of devices, including dot matrix printers. OSFAX will transmit either PostScript language or plain text documents via Group 3 facsimile. With OSFAX you can transmit mixed text and graphics for the best possible presentation. Transmission is fully automatic, including automatic retransmissions if errors occur. OSFAX saves money by not retransmitting pages of a multipage document which have already been successfully received. The output of desk top publishing systems may be sent straight to facsimile. You can send your purchase orders and invoices directly to the supplier/customer! OSFAX supports transmission to multiple recipients in one process. You may send form letters directly by facsimile. Other special features of OSFAX include:- o supports programmable page headers, including the total number of pages in the facsimile, on all pages; o available for UNIX and proprietary operating systems; o frees facsimile machine for manual documents; o accounts for outgoing facsimiles by user and destina- tion, allowing for billing/costing of communications; o provides quality output at the receiving end, with near to laser printer resolution; o holds a flexible "address book" for frequently called numbers; o can automatically send faxes in response to incoming calls from facsimile machines in poll mode; and o may be used on same phone line as facsimile machine (this needs a facsimile to modem switch if the receive option is enabled). OSFAX is available on many platforms including: SUN 3 SUN SPARC (SUN 4 and 4c) MIPS Pyramid IBM RS/6000 and any hardware running: ISC UNIX Intel System V, release 4 SCO UNIX/Xenix OSFAX is sold in varying licence sizes, dependent on the number of terminals with access to the software. OSFAX is currently installed and operating in many loca- tions. References can be provided on request. You can pur- chase OSFAX from a network of dealers. Please contact Osiris for the name of an appropriate dealer. Osiris Technology Pty Ltd Tel: +61 2 4176299 PO Box 353 Fax: +61 2 4177334 LANE COVE NSW 2066 AUSTRALIA Tim Wooller, Osiris Technology -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Running Macintosh Apps on X Workstations From: dano@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Dan Sedlacek) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Organization: Sterling Software, Bellevue, NE. product name is XPort, and a description of it follows: Product Description Perfect Products' new XPort package turns the Apple Macintosh into an X Window System Client. Adding XPort to your X Windows environment now makes it possible to execute all Macintosh O/S applications (such as Excel, Hypercard, Microsoft Word, etc.) from any X workstation or X terminal. It is compatable with all workstations (IBM, SUN, DEC, HP, etc.) that support X Windows via TCP/IP. XPort Features: o The only X Windows System Client available for the native Macintosh operating system. o Allows any X server workstation user to execute Macintosh applications. o Lets users cut and paste text between X and Macintosh applications. o Conforms to all releases of the X Windows System software. o Works with MOTIF, Open Windows, DEC Windows and other common window managers. o Supports the Macintosh's local or network printers and disks. o Supports any monochrome display on the Macintosh. o Supports Apple's MacTCP networking software. To use XPort, you telnet into the Macintosh and logon just like any other system. The Macintosh screen appears on your workstation and you can run it just like any other X client application. No workstation software is required (other than telnet and X11 server capabilities). XPort is available now from: Perfect Products 1015 Creighton Rd Papillion, NE 68128 (402) 339-5507 Try it, you'll like it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NetFind, whitepages service for the Internet From: xcaret@csn.org (Xcaret Research) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Organization: Colorado SuperNet Inc. NetFind, from Xcaret Research, Inc., is a whitepages service for the Internet. Given a person's name and location or organization, NetFind returns their Internet electronic mail (email) address. NetFind differs from other whitepages facilities by offering fast and up to date service from your own machine. NetFind runs from the UNIX command line. To find John Smith at Bigstate University, you just type: % netfind smith bigstate NetFind returns the email address. Its that simple. NetFind operates on a Sun3 or Sun4 computer running SunOS 4.0 or later with access to the Internet. Uses only 4MB of disk space. Since NetFind runs from the command line, you can use NetFind from any remote terminal, Mac or PC that accesses a Sun. NetFind uses a unique method to actively search the Internet for your target. It does not attempt to keep a database of users across the Internet; that would be quite large and constantly out of date. Instead, NetFind uses the natural database of the Internet itself: it sends multiple parallel requests across the Internet to machines where it suspects the target may reside. NetFind queries these machines for the name you provide as well as for leads on other machines nearby. NetFind in turn searches these discovered machines and so on down the hierarchy until the address is found or there are no more machines to search. The whole process is surprisingly fast, because NetFind sends searches out in parallel. NetFind uses a reference file for domains and a location index. They take up about 3MB. The first file is a partial list of Internet domains. NetFind uses this list to prime its search. The list is by no means all of the computers it can search. Rather, it will use the information obtained from querying those machines to further its search. The second file is an index of location words. When you say: % netfind smith bigstate NetFind looks in this index for "bigstate". Then it resolves the information it sees with specific machines in the domain file and begins its search. So, the whole process goes from location word to index to domain file and then in parallel searches throughout the Internet. The name can be either a last name or a username. The location words are generally geographical or organizational (i.e., switzerland or sun) and can be combined to narrow the search (i.e., netfind smith bigstate university ). NetFind is sold with a single user license for $159. Please call for educational discounts and site licensing. You may order by phone, e- mail or postal mail (include P.O. number, check or credit card). Please specify your domain name, Sun3 or Sun4, and the format (electronic, floppy, 60MB, or 150MB tape). We don't charge for floppies, but cartridge tapes are an additional $30 to cover cost. Xcaret Research, Inc. 2060 Broadway, Suite 320 Boulder, CO 80302 (800) 736-1285 netfind@xcaret.com chibacity:jgore% ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. 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