SOLARIS X86 SOLUTIONS PROGRESS 4GL and RDBMS for Solaris x86 PROGRESS(R) Version 6 application development environment offers users of SunSoft's Solaris(TM) x86 operating environment a 100% solution for application development, deployment and maintenance in extended enterprise computing configurations. PROGRESS delivers the ease of use, flexibility and range of capabilities to handle every phase of the application life cycle, from simple tasks to complex revisions. The PROGRESS application development environment comprises a fourth-generation language (4GL), a relational database management system (RDBMS), and a library of powerful development and end-user tools. These well integrated products are designed for implementing applications with the flexibility, portability and interoperability to address evolving business needs and exploit developing computer technologies. A Stable, Open Platform Solaris x86 is a powerful and versatile UNIX operating environment for the Intel(R) x86 platform. Designed as a foundation for enterprise computing, it supports major industry standards and provides high-performance 32-bit UNIX multitasking, multithreading and multiuser capabilities. Solaris x86 is compatible with Solaris SPARC, ensuring full interoperability between the leading CISC (x86) and RISC (SPARC) platforms. And Solaris x86 is scalable from desktops to supercomputers, so that customers can configure heterogeneous enterprise networks and expand them easily as their computing needs evolve. Solaris x86 provides native ONC+(TM) technology-based LAN and WAN networking to support broadly distributed computing and system management. Solaris also includes powerful application and Graphical User Interface (GUI) development tools through the OpenWindows(TM) facility, and a rich suite of user productivity applications under DeskSet(TM). Numerous commercial third-party applications, including many Microsoft(R) Windows and DOS applications, run on the Solaris x86 environment. PROGRESS Version 6 Features and Benefits * PROGRESS 4GL: a complete development language that includes ANSI-standard SQL. Offers developers the power and control to produce complex applications quickly without writing 3GL code * PROGRESS RDBMS: a powerful client/server database engine that supports distributed processing across a wide range of operating systems, hardware platforms, network protocols and data managers. Features high throughput, roll- forward recovery, flexible record-locking controls, on-line backup, two-phase commit, and multithreading, multiserver architecture * DataServer Architecture: provides database-specific DataServers that allow PROGRESS applications to read from and write to a variety of databases and file managers, including Oracle(R), RMS and Rdb/VMS * PROGRESS Help System: allows users to retrieve full screen descriptions of any PROGRESS or operating system error. Includes 4GL syntax diagrams for all supported 4GL statements. Provides reference information needed to create complex applications in PROGRESS * Data Dictionary: the central repository for database definitions, business rules and application defaults. Controls user permissions, maintains referential integrity rules, and stores information about DataServer database structures * Procedure Editor: a full-screen, interactive one-stop editing tool that allows a programmer to quickly and easily enter, modify and test blocks of code through an integrated edit, compile and test loop. Editor immediately displays all error messages, provides direct access to the integrated Help System, and provides smooth integration to the PROGRESS Compiler for syntax checking and unit testing * PROGRESS RESULTS(R): provides simple menu-driven procedures for end-users to access heterogeneous data. Users can browse a database, update and compile data, perform calculations and generate custom reports For more information on PROGRESS products, please contact Progress Software Sales at 617-280-4700. Solaris x86 Features and Benefits * Provides enterprise computing power and true client/server architecture - Scalable to accommodate a wide range of hardware, from PCs to supercomputers - Fully interoperable with Solaris SPARC * Offers time-tested 32-bit operating system functionality derived from SunOS(TM) - Multiprocessing, multithreading, multiuser operating environment * Includes tightly coupled tools and facilities for enterprise networking, application development and end-user productivity - Industry-standard ONC+ network technology supports heterogeneous LAN and WAN configurations, allows users to work interactively with others regardless of location - OpenWindows environment provides toolkits that simplify application and GUI development, including industry-standard OSF/Motif(R) toolkit - DeskSet comprises a versatile, integrated set of user productivity applications, running under SunSoft's GUI. * Runs a wide variety of commercially oriented applications, including popular word processing, spreadsheet and DBMS programs * Incorporates new Wabi(TM) technology designed to run Microsoft Windows applications directly on the Solaris operating environment at native performance levels * Open, non-proprietary architecture provides for open-ended system and network expansion, integration of new applications, and choice of peripherals For more information on Solaris x86, call 1-800-SUNSOFT in the U.S. For international inquiries, call 415-960-3200. 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