Developers can use Personal Oracle Lite with Oracle's other development tools to deploy database applications. Oracle plans to replace Blaze, the relational database within Oracle Power Objects, with Personal Oracle Lite. The Oracle Software Manager prov ides a central graphical console that lets administrators update software on remote systems automatically through dial-up or mobile radio connections. Oracle Sales and Marketing, a sales force automation application, uses the Personal Oracle Lite mobile package to exchange information about new sales leads, forecast reporting, and fulfill literature requests by communicating with an enterprise server.
Personal Oracle Lite is currently available for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Support for Macintosh and bidirectional replication are forthcoming. Contact Oracle Corp., 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065; 415-506-7000 or fax 415-506- 7200; http://www.oracle.com.
The Team Developer is a component-based application development environment that offers application scalability, Internet integration, and the ability to connect all of the databases and users in a project. The Ranger contains universal data replication facilities that can synchronize corporate and/or mobile databases. Developers can embed this functionality in applications developed with any OLE-compliant development tool, including Team Developer. The Web Data Publisher helps organizations publish dat a from corporate systems over the Internet or an Intranet. Finally, the Application Server offers application partitioning facilities for Centura applications.
Centura Team Developer is scheduled for release in March 1996, and it will cost $4995. Centura Ranger will also ship in March, with prices starting at $495 per user. The Web Data Publisher and Application Server are expected in the second and third quart ers of 1996, respectively, with pricing to be announced. Centura has also licensed the Java language from JavaSoft, the newly formed division of Sun Microsystems Inc., and plans to embed the Java interpreter in an upcoming version of Centura Team Develop er. Contact Centura Corp., 1060 Marsh Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025; 800-444-8782, 415-321-9500, or fax 415-321-5471.
WinRunner 4.0 includes a Script Wizard that automatically navigates the entire user interface of the application being tested to automatically develop GUI test scripts for immediate use. Mercury's test planning and managing tool, TestDirector 2.0, contai ns a Plan Wizard, a new, process-oriented user interface, extended bug-reporting capabilities, and support for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
TestSuite 4.0, WinRunner 4.0, and TestDirector 2.0 are scheduled to ship in March 1996. TestSuite 4.0 Standard Edition, which includes WinRunner 4.0 and TestDirector 2.0 for testing applications on Windows 3.1, is priced at $3495. TestSuite 4.0 Professio nal Edition includes both products with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT support, and is priced at $4495. Contact Mercury Interactive Corp., 470 Potrero Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086; 408-523-9900 or fax 408-523-9911; http://www.merc-int.com.
All Delphi 2.0 versions contain a 32-bit native-code compiler, scalable database programming tools, and a library of drag-and-drop visual components in an object-oriented development environment. Delphi 2.0 supports OLE automation controllers and servers , Microsoft OCXs, ODBC, and Microsoft's Remote Automation technology, as well as multi-threading, Unicode, and MAPI.
A New User license for Delphi Desktop 2.0 is $499.95, and an upgrade from version 1.0 ranges from $149.95 to $199.95. The New User license for Delphi Developer 2.0 is $799.95, with version 1.0 upgrades ranging from $249.95 to $299.95. A New User license for Delphi Client/Server Suite 2.0 is $1999.95, with version 1.0 upgrades ranging from $999.95 to $1699.95. Contact Borland International Inc., 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA 95067; 800-233-2444, 408-431-1000, or fax 408-431-4122; http://www.borland. com.
MetaSolv Software (Dallas) announced version 3.0 of its PowerFrame Framework Library. Enhancements to the product include a Quick Start Application Generator, which creates a skeleton project PowerBuilder Library File complete with an application object, MDI frame, menus, and .ini files. Also new is the Message Manager, which standardizes error and information messages, handles multiple transaction errors, and supports several common DBMS errors. (Contact Metasolv Software, 214-239-0623 or fax 214-239-0653; http://www.metasolv.com.) Comshare Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.) is shipping Commander Decision, a decision-support, 32-bit planning, analysis, and reporting system that contains Detect and Alert software for monitoring, and NewsAlert , an electronic newspaper interface that monitors news services and automatically identifies information that requires the user's attention. (Contact Comshare Inc., 313-994-4800 or fax 313-994-5895.)
Visible Systems Corp. (Waltham, Mass.) is shipping Visible Analyst Workbench 6.0, the object-oriented version of the company's client/server CASE application development tool. (Contact Visible Systems Corp., 617-890-2273 or fax 617-890-8909.)
Having finally purchased all available companies on the market, Platinum Technology Inc. (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.) announced that it is the final stages of acquiring itself. (Contact http://www. aprilfools.com).