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| TOP | AMazon
Intelligent Environments Inc. 67 South Bedford St. Burlington, MA 01803 617-272-9700; fax 617-272-9300 http://www.ieinc.com | Connects Web servers to corporate legacy systems, including DB2, CICS, APPC, 3270/5250 terminal emulation, VSAM, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and others through ODBC. Communicates with the server using named pipes or TCP/IP. AMazon offers a complete visual development environment for processing data input with any Internet or intranet browser, performing complex logic and calculations, accessing and updating corporate data and generating HTML pages in reply. | Windows NT. Call for prices. |
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| TOP | BASIS and TECHLIBplus OPAC for Intranets
Information Dimensions 5080 Tuttle Crossing Blvd. Dublin, OH 43016-3569 614-761-8083; fax 614-761-7290 http://www.idi.oclc.org | BASIS is an enterprise-class document manager that now uses the Netscape Server API (NSAPI) to integrate with the Netscape Communications Server and the Netscape Commerce Server. TECHLIBplus OPAC for Intranets is extension of the company's automated library management system to allow access from intranet users. The system uses Information Dimensions BASIS WEBserver with the BASIS Document Manager. This provides an environment for publishing and managing large-scale document collections that reside behind a firewall. | IBM AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, and Digital Unix. Prices start at $15,000 for BASIS WEBserver and BASISplus. Prices start at $20,000 for TECHLIBplus OPAC for Intranets. |
| TOP | Black Widow
PostModern Computing Inc. 1885 Landings Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 415-967-6169 http://www.pomoco.com | An object request broker that connects CORBA 2.0 objects with the World Wide Web. With Black Widow, applets developed using Java can be used from Web browsers such as Netscape and Spyglass to communicate with CORBA server objects implemented in Java or C++. Black Widow automatically generates both client-side and server-side Java or C++ code that would otherwise have to be hand-coded. It also ensures fault-tolerance of server objects, allowing companies to easily write continuously available Web servers. It also provides Web connectivity to legacy applications through the use of object wrappers. For improved performance and scalability, Black Widow allows companies to bypass the HTTP and CGI in favor of CORBA Internet Inter-ORB Protocol. | Available Q1 1996; $995; Windows 95, Windows NT, Solaris, and other Unix platforms. |
| TOP | Bolero
EveryWare Development Corp. 7145 West Credit Ave. Building 1, Unit 2 Mississauga, Ontario CANADA L5N6JT 905-819-1173; fax 905-819-1172 http://www.everyware.com info@everyware.com | A tool for logging Web server activity, storing the data in DBMSs such as Butler SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, FoxPro, and others. Tracks Web site activity such as the number of hits or visits, the time of day, and the user's path through the Web site. Produces reports including usage by time periods, estimates of visit length, number of links accessed per visit, popular entry and exit points; breakdown of usage for specific domains and sub-domains; popularity of documents, summary information by domain, session, and URL attributes, and errors. | Macintosh (using WebStar from StarNine), and Unix- and Windows-based Web servers. Prices to be announced. |
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| TOP | CA-OpenIngres/ICE
Computer Associates International Inc. One Computer Associates Plaza Islandia, NY 11788-7000 800-225-5224; 516-342-5224 http://www.cai.com | Web-centric DBMS that allows users to build Web pages with corporate data and deploy Web database applications. Provides embedded HTML access to both server and host-based data sources. Integrates with CA-Unicenter/ICE. | Unix , VAX, OS/2, and Windows NT. Call for prices. |
| TOP | CA-Unicenter/ICE
Computer Associates International Inc. One Computer Associates Plaza Islandia, NY 11788-7000 800-225-5224; 516-342-5224 http://www.cai.com | Distributed management software for securing and managing Windows NT and Unix commerce servers on the Internet and other TCP/IP-based networks. Provides security, event management, help-desk, storage management, resource accounting, and database monitoring. For intranets, provides software distribution and configuration management, monitoring and management of events on the client, and user-based secure access to multiple applications. Also maintains client configuration in its database, allowing help-desk staff to answer user questions and resolve problems. For intranets, also can read error logs, track system and network events, and monitor memory and disk resources. In administering intranets, lets users access information from multiple Web servers with a single authentication. Administrators can group resources such as hypermedia documents, files, printers, and TCP/IP ports. Also provides complete auditing and reporting of data access, attempted security breaches and policy modifcations. | Windows NT and Unix servers, any clients, and DBMSs such as CA-OpenIngres/ICE, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, and Sybase. Call for prices. |
| TOP | Centura Team Developer
Centura Software Corp. (formerly Gupta Corp.) 1060 Marsh Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 800-444-8782; 415-321-9500; fax 415-321-5471 http://www.centurasoft.com | Component-based tools for for developing and deploying 32-bit client/server applications. Supports Internet integration through Internet QuickObjects. Features include support for three-tier application architecture, a full object repository with impact analysis and reverse engineering facilities, portability to a wide range of 32-bit operating systems, and an object compiler. | Windows 95 and Windows NT. Call for prices. |
| TOP | Centura Web Data Publisher
Centura Software Corp. (formerly Gupta Corp.) 1060 Marsh Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 800-444-8782; 415-321-9500; fax 415-321-5471 http://www.centurasoft.com | Allows organizations to publish data from multiple databases on the Web. The new Web Data Publisher maintains an up-to-date repository of information from disparate databases and securely delivers it to any Web browser. Instead of granting direct Web access to corporate databases, administrators can filter data and safely publish it via the Centura Web Data Publisher. | Windows 95 and Windows NT. Call for prices. |
| TOP | Cold Fusion
Allaire, L.L.C. 7600 France Avenue South, Ste. 552 Minneapolis, MN 55435 612-831-1808, fax 612-830-1090 http://www.allaire.com email: info@allaire.com | A development platform for creating Web applications that access relational databases with the Web on intranets and the Internet. Developers build applications by combining standard HTML with high-level database commands stored in templates. Supports data validation, conditional branching, embedded SQL, stored procedure calls, template variables and browser-side variables. | Windows NT, Windows 95; $495 |
| TOP | Commerce: Connection
Sterling Software 8080 North Central Expwy., Ste. 100 Dallas, TX 75206 214-891-8600; fax 214-739-0535 http://www.sterling.com | Electronic commerce-related software products. The Internet-enabled components of Commerce: Connection include Gentran: Director, a Windows-based EDI management and translation product; Commerce: Mail, Commerce: Library, a reference library for information about trading relationships, and Commerce: Forms, a tool for entering and displaying data that is placed in a trading partner's Commerce:Network mailbox in EDI standard format. | Call for platforms and prices. |
| TOP | Concordance
Dataflight Software Inc. 2337 Roscomare Road, Ste. 11 Los Angeles, CA 90077 800-421-8398, 310-471-3414 http://www.dataflight.com email: info@dataflight.com | A text DBMS with Web publishing features. Can retrieve full-text and fixed-field data stored locally, on a LAN or CD-ROM, remotely over the Internet, or at remote locations using a WAN. | Windows and OS/2 |
| TOP | Connection for Java
Open Horizon Inc. 1301 Shoreway Road, Ste. 126 Belmont, California 94002 415-598-1200; fax 415-593-1669 http://www.openhorizon.com | Enables corporate developers to build Java applications that transparently access remote databases, server-resident business logic, TP monitors and legacy applications with integrated security and directory services. Enables access to these services from Java-enabled Web browsers -- without going through a Web server or developing CGI or PERL scripts. Provides direct access to any database through a single Java applet. | Windows NT and Windows 95. Support for HP/UX, AIX and Solaris, will follow. $995 per server. |
| TOP | Crescent Internet ToolPak
Crescent Division of Progress Software Corp. 14 Oak Park Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 800-352-2742, 617-280-4000, or fax 617-280-4025 http://www.progress.com/crescent | Six 32-bit OCX controls and an Internet mail Wizard to help Visual Basic developers build and deploy applications and utilities. Includes: two Internet mail controls, a newsgroup control, a Web/http control, an ftp control, and a client/server control. | Windows (32-bit). $199. |
| TOP | Crystal Reports
Crystal Services Inc. (a Seagate software company) 1095 West Pender St., 4th Floor Vancouver, BC Canada V6E 2M6 604-681-3435; fax 604-681-2934 http://www.seagate.com/software/crystal/ email: webinfo@crystalinc.com | A report writer enhanced to export reports as HTML pages, and to integrate with CGI programs so reports can be executed from HTML hyperlinks. | Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT. |
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| TOP | DataFountain
Dimensional Insight Inc. 111 S. Bedford St. Burlington, MA 01803 617-229-9111 or fax 617-229-9113 http://www.dimins.com | A suite of products designed for enterprisewide data delivery using corporate intranets. Organizations can use the DataFountain family to deploy EIS applications on their Web servers, using data from both legacy systems and relational databases. Components include: Data Integrator, Builder, and DiveNet. | DiveNet runs on Unix Web servers; the Builder and Data Integrator modules support MVS, Unix-based machines, Digital VMS or Alpha, Windows NT, Macintosh, and IBM OS/2. Call for prices. |
| TOP | DataRamp
Working Set Inc. 8 Dover Lane Lexington, MA 02173 617-863-2339; fax 617-863-6220 http://DataRamp.com Email: stevew@dataramp.com | Provides access to ODBC data sources over the Web. Includes server and client components in secure (RSA encryption) or "clear" versions. No modification is needed for existing ODBC-enabled database applications and development tools to access remote databases on the Internet or other TCP/IP network. | Client: Windows NT, Windows 3.1. $39 per user (1 user), $31 per user (10 users), $27 per user (100 users). Server: Windows NT (Windows 95, OS/2, and Unix planned for both server and client). Server $1495 per copy (clear version); $2495 per copy (secure version). Discounts available for multiple units. ownload evaluation version from the Web. |
| TOP | DB2 World Wide Web Connection
IBM Corporation Somers, NY 800-IBM-3333; 520-574-4600 http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/db2wfac2.html Email: askibm-rsvp@info.ibm.com | Connects Web browsers to DB2 data sources. A customer using DB2 WWW Connection can insert, update, or delete DB2 data. Uses HTTP to display pages of HTML. A procedural language is used to map between HTML and SQL. Includes a graphing engine to return results to the Web browser in the form of mixed text and graphics. | OS/2 and AIX. Download evaluation version from the Web. |
| TOP | dbWeb 2.0
Aspect Software Engineering Inc. Honolulu, HI 808-539-3781; fax 808-539-3785 http://www.aspectse.com Email: info@aspectse.com | A gateway using 32-bit ODBC data sources. Includes a VBA-compatible scripting language. Can access data from Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase SQL Server, and Oracle. | dbWeb Service: Windows NT. dbWeb Administrator: Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT. $495. Download evaluation version from the Web. |
| TOP | dbWeb 2.0
Axone Services & Development SA Geneva, Switzerland +41 (22) 342 93 66; fax +41 (22) 820 00 73 http://www.axone.ch Email: andres@axone.ch | An HTML authoring environment based on Microsoft Access and Visual Basic. It lets Web authors create or generate HTML documents that you can store in a relational database or place on a Web server. | Windows 3.1 (authoring environment); Windows NT (planned). Download free from the Web.
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| TOP | DSSWeb
MicroStrategy Inc. 8000 Towers Crescent Drive Vienna, VA 22182 703-848-8600; fax 703-848-8610 http://www.strategy.com email: info@strategy.com | Lets users access data warehouse and decision support applications through Internet browsers. DSSWeb provides a server-based multidimensional interface to data stored in relational databases. It provides ad hoc, autoprompting, and drill down capabilities, including graphs and grids. Based on the vendor's DSS Server, which has native drivers for Oracle, Informix, DB2, Sybase, Red Brick, Teradata, and Tandem Non-Stop SQL. Also supports ODBC. | Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix. Prices for DSS:Web and DSS Server start at $50,000. |
| TOP | DynaWeb
Electronic Book Technologies Inc. One Richmond Square Providence, RI 02906 401-421-9550; fax 401-421-9551 http://www.ebt.com Email: info@ebt.com | Lets Web browsers search and retrieve documents stored in EBT's DynaText electronic book collections. EBT also markets DynaBase, a document repository built on Object Design, Inc.'s ObjectStore. | Windows 3.x; SunOS, Solaris; and SGI-IRIX. Comes with EBT's Pub Pack. |
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| TOP | eApps Frameworks
Lotus Development Corp. 55 Cambridge Parkway Cambridge, MA 02142 617-577-8500; fax 617-693-8939 http://www.lotus.com | Lotus Notes-based "electronic application frameworks" that allow customers to deploy Web-enabled business applications. Each eApp consists of building block components for each target application area. eApps will initially be offered for publishing, marketing, customer service, and electronic commerce applications. Newsstand on the Web will be the first eApp. | Works on Notes-enabled platforms. |
| TOP | Electronic Workforce 4.0
Edify Corp. 2840 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95051 800-944-0056; 408-982-2000; fax 408-982-0777 http://www.edify.com Email: info@edify.com | Visual application development and deployment environment for building interactive service applications (such as human resource and customer service systems), using any medium, including telephone, fax, email, PCs, and the Web. Integrates with back-office applications and corporate databases. The environment has three components: software agents, which provide interactive services on behalf of an organization; the Agent Supervisor, the runtime environment for managing and delivering interactive services; and Agent Trainer, a visual development environment for defining the interactive services. | OS/2 server platform. Integrates with many end user applications in minicomputer, mainframe, and PC environments. Call for prices. |
| TOP | Empress Hypermedia: Web HTML Toolkit
Empress Software Inc. 6401 Golden Triangle Drive Greenbelt, MD 20770 301-220-1919; fax 301-220-1997 http://www.empress.com email: sales@empress.com | An HTML toolkit and HTTP server that lets Web page authors manage large amounts of data through an interface to the Empress multimedia RDBMS. To access data, it uses either SQL calls or the Empress server. It integrates database and administration utilities and creates dynamic Web pages. | HP-UX, AIX, Linux, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, SGI-IRIX, and Solaris/SunOS. Call for prices. |
| TOP | Excalibur RetrievalWare Web Server
Excalibur Technologies Corp. 2000 Corporate Ridge, Ste. 1095 McLean, VA 22102 703-790-2110; fax 703-790-2111 http://www.xrs.com | A Web search system with plain-English and fuzzy text search capabilities, advanced CGI, and macro language for creating HTML pages. Also has an integrated security server. | Unix and Windows NT. Call for prices. |
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| TOP | FrontPage
Microsoft Corp. One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 206-882-8080; fax 206-936-7329 http://www.microsoft.com/MSOffice/Frontpage/ | A visual client/server Web publishing tool for non-programmers and professional Web developers. Designed for distributed, collaborative and multiuser work environments, it supports authoring, scripting, and management of Web site on a personal workstation, across a LAN, or over the Internet. | Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Macintosh version is scheduled for 1996. $695. Download trial version free from the Web. |
| TOP | FRx Enterprise for Windows
FRx Software Corp. 4949 S. Syracuse St., Ste. 620 Denver, CO 80237 800-379-8733; 303-741-0900; fax 303-741-3335 | A financial reporting tool optimized for client/server accounting applications. Supports production needs and ad hoc reporting and decision analysis. Using a rule-based report manager, FRx can generate and distribute reports automatically. Groups of reports can be printed or distributed via email, Internet (via ftp), or Lotus Notes. Remote users can view or print reports using the FRx DrillDown Viewer. FRx provides a visual Reporting Tree Feature for OLAP functionality. FRx also can consolidate multi-currency financial information from different accounting systems at multiple Internet sites. | Windows 95 and Windows NT. Prices range from $15,000 to $25,000, depending on server, accounting system, and number of users. FRx currently works with Great Plains Software, Solomon Software, Fl/exiInternational Software, Macola Inc., State of the Art Software, and US LAN Systems. |
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| TOP | Gamelon File I/O Library
Menai Corp. 1010 El Camino Real, Ste. 370 Menlo Park, CA 94025 800-426-3566; 415-853-6450; fax 415-853-6453 http://www.menai.com info@menai.com | A multiplatform programmer's toolkit that provides an object-based abstraction for the design and implementation of platform-independent structured data files that provide type safety. The objects in these files can be exchanged among programs running on different platforms and can be re-used as models in cumulative programming efforts.Gamelon turns every kind of data (such as numbers, strings, files, and complex collections) into an object. As a result, persistent storage and data access in complex relationships becomes straightforward. Supports loosely-coupled program-to-program Internet data exchanges. | Windows 3.x ($395), Windows 95/NT ($495), OS/2 ($495), Solaris ($429), and Linux. APIs for C++, C, Visual Basic, and Delphi. Call for additional price information. |
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| TOP | HAHTSite
HAHT Software Inc. 4200 Six Forks Road, Suite 350 Raleigh, NC 27609 919-783-7803; 800-996-3222; fax 919-783-7801 http://www.haht.com | A comprehensive Internet/Intranet integrated development environment (IDE) for creating of dynamic Web applications. Includes WYSIWYG page layout, HTML, drag and drop site construction, graphics tools (for processing, dithering, scaling, palette management, standards), Header/Footer Masters, HTML import options, one button "deployment", support for Java Applets, and Web Widgets. Includes a project approach to managing site resources, internal/external URL management, team development support, object sharing and reuse, optional integration with professional version and source control products. Provides a Microsoft Visual Basic syntax-compatible application development environment. Can access or use information from any ODBC-compliant data source or any other data source with an API. | Server: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT. IDE: Windows 95, Windows NT, and Solaris. Call for prices. |
| TOP | HoTMetaL Pro 2.0
SoftQuad Inc. 56 Aberfoyle Crescent, 5th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M8X 2W4 416 239-4801; 800-387-2777; fax 416 239-7105 http://www.sq.com | HTML authoring tool that lets you build Web pages, import and convert documents, and add hypertext links. | Version 2:0: Windows and Macintosh; Version 1.0: Version 2.0: Sun OS 4, Solaris 2.3, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, AIX, or DEC Alpha (Version 2.0 coming soon).
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| TOP | HotSockets
Ensodex Inc. 1850 University Ave W, Ste. 200 St. Paul, MN 55104 612-641-8551; fax 612-641-8566 http://www.ensodex.com | Middleware allowing ODBC applications to access all relational data over any TCP/IP network, including the Internet. Creates a direct, live link between the client and server applications. No specific Web server or network operating system is necessary. Consists of a full set of client drivers and a server for one platform. | Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Sun OS, Sun WABI, HP-UX and IBM AIX. Download 30-day evaluation free. $2495 for the first server platform and $500 for each additional platform. |
| TOP | Hype-It 1000, Hype-It 2000, Hype-It 3000
Cykic Software Inc. 123 Camino de la Reina, Ste. N200 San Diego, CA 92108 800-295-4295; 619-220-7970; fax 619-297-8074 http://www.cykic.com Email: cykic@cykic.com | A Web server written as an application in Cykic's MultiBase, a relational database and multitasking operating system that supports Xbase programs. Hype-It 1000 is an outbound mail server only. Hype-It 2000 is a full SMTP server. It also allows detailed tracking of user activity. Hype-It 2000 also provides an ISMAP creator and enhanced ftp functions. Hype-It 3000 includes a complete application development environment. . | DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2. H-1000 $595; H-2000 $1995; H-3000 call for prices. Download evaluation version from the Web. |
| TOP | HyperStar Web Developer's Kit (WDK)
Vmark Software Inc. 50 Washington St. Westboro, MA 01581-1021 508-366-3888; fax 508-366-3669 http://www.vmark.com | Enables users to access corporate and organizational data via Web-based client/server applications. Users can build applications which enable any Web browser to dynamically interact with a wide variety of relational and legacy databases. Compatible with all Web browsers, all Web servers that support the CGI standard, and most databases, including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, UniVerse, Ingres, Microfocus Cobol ISAM and PI/open. Each kit contains a visual query builder, a C-compatible API, and a database-specific access server. | Unix. Down a free 90-day trial from the Web. |
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| TOP | Informix-ESQL/C CGI Interface Kit
Informix-4GL CGI Interface Kit Informix Software Inc. Bohannon Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 800-331-1763; 415-926-6300; fax 415-926-6593 http://www.informix.com Email: moreinfo@informix.com | Interface kit that lets Informix developers adapt new or existing Informix-4GL and Informix-ESQL applications to the Web. Each kit contains the complete source code to help write CGI programs that can interface with Informix databases and produce dynamic HTML. Each kit also includes examples. | Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, and IBM AIX. Download free from the Web. |
| TOP | InterAct
ProtoView Development Co. 2540 Route 130 Cranbury, NJ 08512 609-655-5000; fax 609-655-5353 http://www.protoview.com | An OLE control for creating, editing, viewing, and printing diagrams. Diagrams can be designed that allow the user to navigate and jump to Web pages. This allows developers to associate Web pages with entities in the diagram. | Windows 3.x (Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland C++, Delphi, PowerBuilder, and other OLE- and DLL-capable languages). $395. |
| TOP | InterBase InterClient
Borland International Inc. 100 Borland Way Scotts Valley, CA, 95066 408-431-1000 http://www.borland.com | Client and server connectivity components that connect Java applications to InterBase databases. | Call for platforms and prices. |
| TOP | InterNotes Web Publisher and Lotus Notes Server
Lotus Development Corp. 55 Cambridge Parkway Cambridge, MA 02142 617-577-8500; fax 617-693-8939 http://www.lotus.com | InterNotes Web Publisher lets organizations extend Notes information and applications to users of the Internet or private intranets. Automatically publishes Notes documents and forms to the Web, translating them into HTML, and captures information from forms submitted via the Web, incorporating it into Notes business process applications. The Lotus Notes Server is a version of Lotus Notes that directly supports WWW protocols such as HTTP, HTML, and Java technology. It allows users with either Notes clients or Web browsers to benefit from the full range of Notes team-oriented applications. | InterNotes Web Publisher runs on Windows NT. Requires a Notes server. Download free from http://www.lotus.com/inotes/ |
| TOP | iResults DataWeb 2.0
Integral Results Inc. 404 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94107 415-541-8593 http://www.iresults.com | An Internet/Intranet development tool that connects databases to the World Wide Web. A free trial is available from the company's Web site. Uses HTML and ANSI SQL commands to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data. Works with Oracle, Sybase, Access, and other data sources including spreadsheet files or legacy databases. Creates HTML dynamically and substitutes data from the database as necessary. | Windows NT, and Windows 95. $225. |
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| TOP | JAM/WEB (Web Enterprise Builder) and Jam/WEB Toolkit
JYACC Inc. 116 John St. New York, NY 10038 212-267-7722; fax 212-608-6753 http://www.jyacc.com | A development tool for building server-based database applications for the Web that can integrate with existing client/server applications and three-tiered systems. Using JYACC's JAM, developers build virtual JAM/WEB forms and deploy them on a server. JAM/WEB converts the forms into dynamic HTML for display on a browser. When the user requests a transaction, the request is passed to JAM/WEB, which executes the business logic and generates SQL. JAM/Web then generates a new HTML form, including the result data, and returns it to the browser for display. JYACC will offer a free JAM/WEB Toolkit to current JAM users. | Deploy on Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Motif, Macintosh, OS/2 Warp. Will include access to Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and ODBC. Price to be announced. |
| TOP | Java Developer's Kit
Sun Microsystems Inc. 2550 Garcia Ave. Mtn. View, CA 94043-1100 800-821-4643, 415-960-1300, or fax 415-969-9131 http://java.sun.com | Tools for building Internet applications with Sun's object-oriented Java programming language. Comes with the Java Applet Viewer (for running and testing applets), the Java Compiler, the Java Language Runtime (interpreter), and the Java Debugger API and Prototype Debugger. Works with Sun's HotJava browser, a modular, applet-aware, extensible World-Wide Web browser written entirely in the Java programming language. | Solaris 2.3 or higher (SPARC), Windows NT or Windows 95.
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| TOP | JETConnect
XDB Systems Inc. 9861 Broken Land Parkway Columbia, MD 21046 410-312-9300; fax 410-312-9505 http://www.xdb.com | Provides a DBMS-independent solution for database access from Java applications. JETConnect is a set of class libraries and drivers that allows access between Java and any DBMS that supports ODBC. Supports the full range of ODBC functionality including the support for DBMS-specific features. | Download beta from the Web. Call for platforms and prices. |
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| TOP | Latte, Borland Debugger for Java, and AppAccelerator
Borland International Inc. 100 Borland Way Scotts Valley, CA, 95066 408-431-1000 http://www.borland.com | Latte is a visual development environment for building Java applications. A phased delivery of Latte is planned, beginning with the add-on components for Borland C++ and resulting in a Delphi-like integrated visual development toolset. In addition to compilers and tools, the development suite will offer class libraries, RAD, native database connectivity, data-aware controls and cross-platform RDBMS connections. Borland Debugger for Java is a graphical debugger (written in the Java language) for Java applications. The debugger can be used to fix Java applet code locally or remotely across networks on any machine that hosts the Java virtual machine. Using the debugger with Sun's Java Developers Kit, programmers can develop compact platform-independent Java applets and applications. AppAccelerator is a "just-in-time" compiler that enhances Java performance performance on Windows 95/NT accelerator-equipped development and target machines. The debugger and the compiler are the first components of Latte. | Windows 95 and Windows NT. Call for prices. |
| TOP | LegacyLink
CEL Corp. 9650-20 Ave., Ste. 112, Edmonton, Alberta T6N 1G1 800-338-8491, 403-463-9090; fax 403-430-1153 http://www.celcorp.com | Standalone CGI application that connects Web browsers to legacy mainframe and minicomputer applications. Browsers look like they are communicating directly with legacy system applications. | Works in conjunction with StarNine's Webstar Web server (formerly MacHTTP). Call for price. |
| TOP | LivePage WebMaster
The Information Atrium Inc. 158 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario Canada, N2L 3E9 519-885-2181; fax 519-746-7362 http://www.inforium.com/inforium.htm email: info@inforium.com | Toolset for creating, managing, and storing Web content in relational databases. Stores HTML documents in an Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, or Watcom database. Includes tools (WebMaster Builder, LivePage Updater, WebMaster Publisher) to administer, update, and browse LivePage documents stored in SQL databases. The vendor also sells a Client/Server Developer's Kit. | Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT. $995 introductory price. |
| TOP | LiveWire and LiveWire Pro
Netscape Communications Corp. 501 E. Middlefield Rd. Mountain View, CA 94043 800-NETSITE; 415-528-2600; fax 415-528-4120 http://home.netscape.com Email: info@netscape.com | Web application development tools. The Pro version incorporates the Rogue Wave database libraries into the Netscape scripting language, so Web browsers can query Informix, Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft databases. (A future version will support ODBC data sources.) | Windows 95, Windows NT, and Unix. |
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| TOP | Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
Microsoft Corp. One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 206-882-8080; fax 206-936-7329 http://www.microsoft.com/inforserv | A Web server integrated with, and optimized for, Windows NT Server. Integrates with Microsoft BackOffice products for developing Web-enabled applications and database systems. Provides fault tolerance, security, and encryption for secure communications. The Internet Service Manager centralizes administration for multiple servers from a single desktop, and allows secure administration over the Internet. Also includes Microsoft Internet Explorer. Supporting standards such as CGI and PERL, along with the open Internet Server API (ISAPI), an extension to the Win32 API. ISAPI can be used to provide server extensions such as customer communications, site management, and business solutions like accounting, order-entry, and catalog databases. The included Internet Database Connector provides integration with SQL Server, Microsoft Access, or other ODBC-compliant databases. Through Microsoft Exchange Server, IIS will tie Web-based information into corporate-wide mail and messaging systems. | Windows NT (Intel, Alpha AXP, MIPS, and PowerPC). Available for free from the Internet, or in the Windows NT Server Network Value Pack. |
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| TOP | NetCraft
SourceCraft Inc. 20 Mall Road Burlington, MA 800-462-5328; 617-221-5665 http://www.sourcecraft.com | A visual browser/server development environment that generates Java source code. Includes a browser, menu editor, methods editor, forms builder, and a code generator and browser-based debugger for Java. NetCraft is based on the vendor's ObjectCraft client/server development tool, which generates standards- C++ source code and provides OLE and ODBC compliance. It includes a browser, methods editor, menu editor, forms builder and a code generator and debugger for C++. | Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, and Windows 95 (in English and Japanese versions). $995. Free promotion runs until June 30, 1996. See the company's Web site. |
| TOP | Neuron Web Element
Neuron Data Systems 1310 Villa St. Mountain View, CA 94041 800-876-4900; 415-528-3450 faxback: 415-943-2762 http://www.neurondata.com | A development tool for building and integrating interactive WWW-based software components into business-critical applications. The Web Element enables developers to embed Web browsers directly into business-critical applications. Developers can also customize Web browsers with Web Element Pro, which adds a Web Control and a C/C++ API. The Web Element also lets you integrate Web components into distributed applications with ObjectScript Applets (written with Neuron Data's Elements and ObjectScript Language). ObjectScript Applets running on a client machine are fully functional, distributed applications that can direct communications to relational databases or other distributed objects. Web Element contains the embeddable browser and the Web Link Navigator. The Web Element Pro contains the embeddable browser, the Web Control, and the API. | Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, and Solaris. Price starts at $45 per user, with a 500-user license. |
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| TOP | O2Web
O2 Technology 3600 W. Bayshore Rd., Ste. 106 Palo Alto, CA 94303 415-842-7000; fax 415-842-7001 http://www.o2tech.com Email: o2info@o2tech.com | Object-oriented tools for building and administering Web server applications. Lets Web browsers access text, multimedia, and complex data from the O2 Database System, an ODMG-compliant DBMS for C++ developers. Modules include O2Web Gateway, O2Web Dispatcher, and O2Web Server. The Web client sends a URL HTTP format (the URL contains an OQL query). The HTTP server passes the query to O2Web Gateway. The O2Web Gateway connects to O2Web Server, which runs the query, and transforms the result into HTML and returns it to the client. | Unix platforms including SunOS and Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, OSF1, and NeXTStep, SCO, and Windows NT. $1500 per O2Web module. |
| TOP | OpenPath/I-Way
Trilogy Technology International 17870 Castleton St., Ste. 325 City of Industry, CA 91748 818-854-6288; fax 818-854-6289 http://www.openpath.com | An development tool for Web applications. Supports the creation of applications that can access data in heterogeneous relational databases without CGI. Based on Trilogy's Remote Data Access Engine. Compatible with the HTML 2.0 widget set, OpenPath/I-Way uses HTML forms supported by WWW browsers for input, modification, and retrieval. | Call for platforms and prices. |
| TOP | OpenScape
Business@Web Inc. 219 Vassar St. Cambridge, MA 02139 800-700-8598 http://www.busweb.com/ | A component-based environment for developing Internet and intranet applications. Lets developers to create shareable, reusable software components--both visual and logical--that can be assembled to create GUI-based client/server applications, workflow applications, and Web applications for intranets and for the Internet. OpenScape uses a distributed component architecture. Configurations include OpenScape, OpenScape Workgroup, and OpenScape Enterprise. OpenExtensions are also available to provide access to third-party computing systems and environments, such as OSF DCE and SAP R/3. All versions include the Visual Component Builder for painting and scripting reusable visual components; the Component Workbench for storing, categorizing, and browsing components; and the Component Engine, which allows components to execute in a variety of computing environments simultaneously. The Component Engine also handles the communication and interface translation between disparate standards, such as OLE and DCE. | Windows95, Windows NT, and Windows 3.x. Calling for prices. Download free standalone Internet version from the Web. |
| TOP | Orbix
IONA Technologies 55 Fairbanks Blvd. Marlboro, MA 01752 508-460-6868; fax 508-460-6099 http://www.iona.com | Allows developers to build distributed applications that access object components across the Internet. Integrates IONA's Common Object Request Broker (CORBA) implementation with the Java Internet development language. This enables the creation of Java applets that can access multiple, shared backend services located across the Internet. Integrated with Object Design Inc.'s ObjectStore object-oriented DBMS and Isis Distributed Systems' distributed computing technology. | Windows 95, Windows 3.x, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh System 7.5, various Unix, VxWorks, QNX, and LynxOS. Call for prices. |
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| TOP | Platinum Final Exam Internet Test
Platinum Technology Inc. 1815 South Meyers Road Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 708-620-5000; fax 708-691-0718 http://www.platinum | A system tool for analyzing the performance of clients and servers in Internet applications in response to various Web-user load levels. Supports HTML objects and automatic capture/replay. A component of Platinum's Final Exam Test Suite. | Call for platforms and pricing. |
| TOP | Platinum Paradigm Plus
Platinum Technology Inc. 1815 South Meyers Road Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 708-620-5000; fax 708-691-0718 http://www.platinum | An object-oriented analysis and design tool that supports Enterprise Component Model (ECM), reverse engineering, and code generation. For Internet applications, generates Java class definitions with attributes and member functions. Designs for C++ can be redeployed as Java applications. | Windows platforms start at $4000; Unix platforms begin at $7700. |
| TOP | Powersoft Optima++
Powersoft Corp. (a Sybase Company) 561 Virginia Road Concord, MA 01742 508-287-1500; fax 508-369-3997 http://www.powersoft.com | Part of Sybase's web.works architecture, Optima++ is a RAD tool that lets developers use C++ for building client/server and Internet applications. Based on a component-centric architecture, Optima++ lets developers to leverage OLE and native component technology to build native 32-bit applications with drag and drop programming. Applications can be deployed as a single EXE file or with DLLs. Optima++ will include both data-aware bound controls and PowerBuilder technology, including the DataWindow DataPipeline and InfoMaker. Optima++ will enable users to develop Internet client and server applications as well as Sun Java applets, Microsoft OLE sweeper controls and Netscape browser plug-ins. | Windows 3.1 with Win32s, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Call for prices. |
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| TOP | QA Partner 3.2
Segue Software Inc. 1320 Centre St. Newton Centre, MA 02159 800-287-1329; 617-796-1000; fax 617.796.1610 http://www.segue.com email: info@segue.com | A full-featured client/server testing tool that also that supports testing of Java applets. Works with leading browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Sun Microsystems' Hot Java. | Windows95, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, and most variants of Motif. Internet features included in base product. Call for prices. Current Segue customers upgraded at no charge. |
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| TOP | R:Web
Microrim Inc. 15395 S.E. 30th Place Bellevue, WA 98007-9918 800-628-6990; 206-649-9500; fax 206-649-2785 http://www.microrim.com Email: jodis@microrim.com | Enhancement to R:BASE 5.5 for Windows (included) that lets companies take orders for products or provide services through over the World Wide Web. Converts R:BASE forms to HTML and interacts with R:BASE and other ODBC data sources. | Intel-based Windows NT Server; $995. |
| TOP | Roaster
Natural Intelligence Inc. Cambridge, Mass. 800-739-1616; 617-876-7680 fax 617-492-7425 http://www.natural.com | Integrated development environment for creating applets in Java. Includes a code editor, Java source code compiler, and project window. | Macintosh. $299. |
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| TOP | Salvo
Simware Inc. 2 Gurdwara Rd. Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2E 1A2 800-267-9991, 613-727-1779, fax 613-727-3533 http://www.simware.com | Allows access to enterprise applications through a Web Browser, by translating 3270 datastreams into HTML and vice versa. It is a plug-and-play application that installs on the user's PC. It requires no changes to host applications and no programming by the user. | Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, Windows NT, and HTML 2.0-compatible Web browsers. Download free evaluation from the Web. |
| TOP | Sapphire/Web
Bluestone Inc. 1000 Briggs Rd. Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 609-727-4600; fax 609-778-8125 http://www.bluestone.com Email: info@bluestone.com | Client/server application development tool for creating Internet and Intranet applications running on the World Wide Web. Creates applications that use HTML as the user interface. Works with Oracle, Sybase, and Informix DBMSs. Uses a visual development technique for reducing the coding effort. | SunOS, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and SGI IRIX. $2495. |
| TOP | SNiFF+ 2.2
TakeFive Software Inc. 20823 Stevens Creek Blvd., Ste. 440 Cupertino, CA 95014 408-777-1440; fax 408-777-1444 http://www.takefive.com email: info@takefive.com | An integrated Unix development environment for building Internet applications. Supports development in Java, C, and C++. Ships with a Java parser, browsers, source code management tools, a documentation editor, and the Java Developer Kit. | Solaris 2.; future plans are to port it to all currently supported Unix platforms |
| TOP | Spider 1.5
Spider Technologies Inc 1054 Elwell Court Palo Alto, CA 94303 415-969-6665; fax 415-969-6883 http://www.w3spider.com Email:info@w3spider.com | A Web/database application development tool that provides a development module that lets you visually relate HTML form fields or Java fields to database fields. A deployment module executes Spider applications and interacts with Informix, Oracle, or Sybase DBMSs. | SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX. Call for prices. |
| TOP | Star/Web
Cuadra Associates Inc. 11835 West Olympic Blvd., Ste. 855 Los Angeles, CA 90064 310-478-0066; fax 310-477-1078 | A common gateway interface (cgi-bin) that provides an interface between the multiuser STAR information management software and any HTTP Web server. It provides interactive access to STAR databases on a Unix host. | Requires STAR 3.4 or later, running on a Unix host with standard Web server software. Call for prices. |
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| TOP | Tango
EveryWare Development Corp. 7145 West Credit Ave. Building 1, Ste. 2 Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5N 6J7 905-819-1173; fax 905-819-1172 http://www.everyware.com info@everyware.com | A visual development tool that integrates SQL databases, such as EveryWare's Butler SQL, with Macintosh Web servers. An ODBC version is available. Tango lets Web administrators create Web pages that access databases without writing any SQL or HTML code. | Macintosh; call for prices. |
| TOP | Tivoli/net.commander
Tivoli Systems Inc. 9442 Capital of Texas Hwy. North Austin, TX 79759 800-284-8654; 512-794-9070 http://www.tivoli.com | An application in the Tivoli Management Environment for configuring, monitoring, and controlling Internet application environments. | Call for platforms and pricing. |
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| TOP | Visigenic ODBC DriverSet, ODBC Software Development Kits, and ODBC Test Suites
Visigenic Software Inc. 951 Mariner's Island Blvd., Ste. 460 San Mateo, CA 94404 415-286-1900 http://www.visigenic.com | A set of ODBC tools now adapted to give Java developers cross-platform database access via ODBC. Maps the Java JDBC API to the Visigenic ODBC product family. | Unix, Macintosh, OS/2, and Windows. Call for prices. |
| TOP | VisualWave Development Environment and VisualWave Server
ParcPlace-Digitalk Inc. 999 East Arques Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4593 408-481-9090; fax 408-481-9095 http://www.parcplace.com | The VisualWave Development Environment is an object-oriented environment (based on ParcPlace Smalltalk) for building Web-based applications. Modules include a Personal WWW server, which gives developers a local view of the application as the user will see it; hot loading, which lets developers revise "parcels" incrementally, without interrupting the application; compatibility with various Web browsers; session management, for maintaining user sessions and providing continuity in the use of the application; client/server integration, which provides access to relational and legacy data sources. It uses ParcPlace's optional Database Connect for DB2, Oracle7, and Sybase connectivity. VisualWave also integrates with distributed object environments. Note that applications can run on the client, or on application servers. The VisualWave Server is the deployment environment. | Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 and popular Unix systems. $4995 for the Development Environment. $9995 for the server. |
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| TOP | Web DataBlade and Informix-Universal Server
Illustra Information Technologies Inc. 1111 Broadway, 20th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 510-652-8000; fax 510-869-6388 Informix Software Inc. Bohannon Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 800-331-1763; 415-926-6300; fax 415-926-6593 http://www.illustra.com http://www.informix.com Email: info@illustra.com | The Web DataBlade is an Illustra Server object library (with tools, functions, and examples) that ease development of interactive Web-enabled database applications. The Web DataBlade dynamically generates HTML pages from page templates stored inside the database. By embedding SQL in HTML documents, the results are "exploded" onto the page in the form of text, images, video, or any other selected data type. Hot links to related information are also dynamically generated from the database. Informix recently acquired Illustra, which has announced plans to combine Illustra with Informix RDBMS technology to produce the Informix Universal Server. | Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, Windows NT; Requires Illustra Server. Call for prices. |
| TOP | Web Publisher and askSam Professional
askSam Systems 119 S. Washington St., PO Box 1428 Perry, FL 32347-9968 800-800-1997; 904-584-6590 http://www.asksam.com | askSam Professional is a text DBMS that includes support for importing and exporting HTML files into an askSam database. It supports full-text indexing and retrieval of large text bases. Web Publisher is a tool for creating and publishing full-text searchable documents and databases on the Internet, without HTML and without programming. Imports word processing documents, text files, HTML, and data files in many formats. | Web Publisher ($1495): Windows NT 3.51 and Windows 95 Web servers; askSam Professional ($395): Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2. |
| TOP | web.sql
Sybase Inc. 6475 Christie Ave. Emeryville, CA 94608 800-8-SYBASE; 510-922-3500; fax 510-922-9441 http://www.sybase.com | Provides high-speed open links between Sybase System 10 and System 11 databases and Web servers. Lets you embed SQL statements and Perl scripts within an HTML document. web.sql includes Sybase Open Client, and is part of Sybase's Web.works architecture for the Internet. | Sun Solaris, SGI-IRIX, IBM AIX, and HP-UX. Windows NT version to follow. $1,200 to 5,000 per license, depending on the operating system and processor size. |
| TOP | WebDBC
Nomad Development Corp. 81 Vine St., Ste. 203 Seattle, WA 98121 206-448-1956; fax 206-448-1761 http://www.ndev.com Email: info@ndev.com | A Web/database application development tool that supports Microsoft's ISAPI, Netscape's NSAPI and Spry's BGI interfaces. Provides Web-based "Instant-Page" wizards. | Windows NT, Windows 95, Sparc Solaris, and Macintosh; $595. |
| TOP | WebObjects
NeXT Software Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 415-366-0900; fax 415-780-3929 http://www.next.com | Tools for building applications for the Internet or intranets, using standard Web browsers as clients. Provides the WebScript scripting language for building dynamic applications. Through NeXT's Distributed OLE for Windows, WebObjects can communicate with OLE/COM objects and future versions will support CORBA. WebObjects can dynamically distribute requests across heterogeneous architectures. Through NeXT's Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF), Web-based applications can access databases such as Oracle, Sybase, and other RDBMSs without writing database specific code. Also supports security protocols such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and SHTTP to enforce security of the information going across the network. Available in standalone, "Pro," and "Enterprise" versions. WebObjects Pro adds the ability to compile in C, C++, and Objective C code. The Enterprise package includes EOF. | Windows NT, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, and NeXT's MachOS. Download standalone version beta for free from the Web. WebObjects Pro $2999 per processor. WebObjects Enterprise $24,999. |
| TOP | WebOLAP and WebOLAP Content Server
Information Advantage 7401 Metro Blvd. Minneapolis, MN 55439 800-959-7015; 612-820-0702; fax 612-820-0712 http://www.infoadvan.com/index.shtml | An enhancement to the vendor's DecisionSuite Server that provides access from the Internet to structured content found in data warehouses. WebOLAP provides a means of distributing reports as dynamic HTML documents. Users can drill on report dimensions, append messages and collaborate with other users over an intranet. The WebOLAP Content Server is a structured content server for Internets and intranets. It is designed for organizations that want to rapidly deploy Internet and intranet data warehousing applications. WebOLAP Content Server includes Information Advantage's DecisionSuite Server and Red Brick Warehouse for Workgroups from Red Brick Systems Inc. | Runs on major Unix platforms. Call for prices. |
| TOP | WebSeries
SBT Internet Systems 1401 Los Gamos Drive San Rafael, CA 94903 415/444-9900; fax 415-444-9901 http://www.sbt.com email: sbt@sbt.com | Tools for developing and deploying electronic commerce applications over the Internet. WebTrader provides HTML tools and form templates, email integration, and RSA secure transactions. Integration with SBT accounting systems is optional. WebStreet provides complete managed Web site service. WebAlert provides event-driven business monitoring with email and HTML alerts. | Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT. |
| TOP | WebServer 2.0 and WebSystem
Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 800-633-0596; 415-506-7000; fax 415-506-7200 http://www.oracle.com | WebServer 2.0 is a scalable platform for building Web sites and applications for use over corporate intranets and the Internet. It integrates security and native database connectivity into a single server. WebSystem is a suite of Internet products that includes Oracle WebServer, Oracle WebServer Option, and Oracle PowerBrowser. | Most Unix platforms; $2,495. |
| TOP | WebSite
O'Reilly & Associates Inc. 103 Morris St., Ste. A Sebastopol, CA 95472 800-998-9938; 707-829-0515; fax 829-0104 http://website.ora.com Email: website@ora.com | Web server that supports Visual Basic for CGI programs that interact with ODBC data sources and other desktop products. | Windows NT and Windows 95. Call for prices. |
| TOP | WebTest
Mercury Interactive Corp. 470 Potrero Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 800-837-8911, 408-523-9900, or fax 408-523-9911 http://www.merc-int.com | Testing tool specifically designed for the Web. Tests functionality of Web site and performance and capacity of Web server. Available as an extension to WinRunner, XRunner, and LoadRunner. | Supports Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Ingres, SQL Server, ODBC, and Tuxedo database architectures. $19/5, plus base package: WinRunner ($195), XRunner ($495), and LoadRunner ($995). |
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