Posted April 1996
Tradeshow/Exhibit participants in the 1996 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) are listed below in alphabetical order.
A B C D E F H I L M N O P-Q S T V W-Z
3D WEB develops real-time 3-D rendered authoring tools for the World Wide Web. Their flagship product, SPINNER, is a 3-D Web (VRML) authoring tool and ActiveX control for creating and deploying 3-D Web sites.
It features an intuitive real-time rendered 3-D interface, 2-D views for moving objects one plane at a time (for people who have difficulty "thinking" in 3-D) the ability to import many 3-D file formats (including DXF, 3DS, OBJ) and over 30 different texture formats (including PCT, BMP, JPG, GIF, TGA) . You can also embed or anchor hyperlinks (URLS) to 3-D objects. With this feature you can direct people who visit your 3-D Web page to other 3-D or 2-D (HTML) Web pages. Minimum requirements are a 486/50 MHz machine with Windows® 95 (or 3.11 with Win32s®).
ACI US, Inc. was founded in 1987 as the U.S. publisher of the 4th Dimension relational database and is a subsidiary of ACI SA located in Clichy, France.
NetLink/4D for Windows is an efficient and fast way for World Wide Web servers to communicate with 4D databases and SQL databases such as SQL Server. NetLink/4D support Microsoft's Internet Server API.
For more information about ACI and 4th Dimension please visit the ACI US World Wide Web page at ACI US - http://www.aci-4D.com.
For information about NetLink/4D, which allows you to connect a 4D database to the Web, please visit Foresight Technologies, the publishers of NetLink/4D, at http://www.fsti.com/productinfo/netlinkwin_announce.html.
http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat/pdc.html
Adobe, the world's third largest PC software company is committed to developing products that enable people to express and use information in imaginative and meaningful ways.
Acrobat is the fastest and easiest way to publish on the World Wide Web or corporate intranet. Acrobat allows you to view, navigate, and print portable document format (PDF) files right inside the Internet Explorer's Window.
As the leading developer of corporate intranets, Attachmate helps major corporations worldwide leverage enterprise information to its fullest and build seamless links to the Internet.
Attachmate's Emissary Host Publishing System allows companies to Web-deploy applications and to link World Wide Web Servers to IBM mainframes. With any Web browser, mainframe data within applications can be viewed by the end user. Emissary Host Publishing System will include support of Microsoft's ActiveX controls as part of a complete set of tools designed to help companies maximize their IT investment, easily build powerful client/server applications, and build corporate intranets.
Black Diamond Consulting, Inc. is an industry leader in the creation of custom software solutions, consulting, product development, and multimedia development services.
The Surround Video SDK is a collection of tools that developers can use to add 360-degree panoramic images to an application, as well as an ActiveX control to allow the use of Surround Video images in HTML documents or Web pages. The Surround Video SDK supports progressive rendering, hot-spotting with URL links, and development of Internet and native multimedia titles.
Blue Sky Software is dedicated to providing Smart Development Tools for Windows 95, Windows NT®, and Windows 3. x. Blue Sky Software plans to support Microsoft's Internet initiatives and announced two new ActiveX controls: ActiveHelp and ActiveWeb.
Award-winning products include RoboHELP® 95 and WinHelp Office 95. Both allow you to quickly and easily create professional Windows Help systems and HTML from a single source with the newly released HTML Editions. The new Help-to-HTML Kit lets you convert any Windows 3.1 or 95 Help (HLP) file to HTML, GIF, and MAP files in seconds, without the need of source code.
Borland International, Inc. is a leading provider of products and services targeted to software developers. Borland's products include: Delphi, Delphi Client/Server, Borland C++, Visual dBASE, Paradox, and InterBase.
Borland plans to support Microsoft's Internet initiatives, including the forthcoming ActiveX SDK which will be supported in Borland's existing Windows development tools, such as Borland C++ and Delphi.
Bristol Technology, Inc. develops, markets, and supports the Wind/U(R) family of products, cross platform development software that enables developers to build Windows, UNIX and OpenVMS applications based on a single source code.
Wind/U 3.1 enables you to create native UNIX/Motif applications with the Microsoft Win32® API and MFC. Your applications have the look and feel of Motif on UNIX or OpenVMS, but all the functionality of your Windows 95 versions.
Release 3.1 includes full support for Microsoft ActiveX Technology, full OLE support, MFC 4.1, Rich Edit Control, common dialogs, MDI, new support for IBM's AIX 4.1 and HP-UX 10 operating systems, online help and printing.
Business@Web has created the first component-based development environment that spans corporate intranets, the enterprise, and the global Internet.
OpenScape allows developers to create reusable software components, both visual and logical, that are easily assembled to create GUI-based client/server applications; dynamic workflow applications integrating familiar desktop products, and secure, graphical Web applications.
CDI offers a secure electronic commerce technology solution for companies seeking to increase sales and profits. The service includes: online registration, revenue capture, and complete software piracy protection.
Self Serve Software, the technology platform of the CDI Service Bureau, is based on proprietary "Secret Key Encryption" incorporating a number of leading edge and proprietary services: Multichannel Synchronous Communications, ActiveX control technology, Coded Key Verified Signature Processing plus Wrapper and Fingerprinting technologies.
CenterView Software, Inc. is a leading provider of component based development tools that extends Microsoft Visual Basic® and Internet Development environments enabling organizations to rapidly develop and deploy multiuser business applications.
For companies building corporate intranet or commerce applications, CenterView's Component Application Server, which includes an Internet Data Control, Object APIU and server components, allows you to easily link ActiveX controls to relational databases enabling rapid development and deployment of Internet Applications.
Centigram Communications Corporation is a leading provider of communications solutions. Centigram licenses TruVoice, its patented text-to-speech software, and solves communications problems by integrating voice, data and facsimile, and by providing access to this multimedia information through a telephone or PC.
TruVoice converts any text into spoken American English, French, German, Spanish, or Italian. TruVoice Version 5.0 include an intelligent preprocessor for reading e-mail messages, fax headers, and other messages. An extensive set of context-sensitive rules compensate for the poorly-crafted text commonly found in these message forms.
Cerebral Systems Development Corp. is a leading provider of HTML authoring tools. Their Webber family consists of Webber, Webber/Dataport, and Webber/Active (expected to ship late 2nd quarter 1996).
Webber is a powerful text-based HTML editor with built-in SGML validation, syntax highlighting, customizable tagbar, WYSWYGish table editor, spell checking, drag-and-drop, and multilevel undo and redo. Webber/Dataport adds the ability to populate static HTML pages with data from ODBC compliant data sources. Webber/Active is one of the first authoring tools to allow the user to browse and preview ActiveX controls, set properties and attributes, and insert them into a document along with VB Script event handlers.
For more information see our Webber/Active PDC page: http://www.csdcorp.com/pdc.htm
CheckPoint Software Technologies is the leading vendor of network security software with more than 40% share of the firewall market (according to International Data Corporation). With thousands of installations in small to Fortune 100 companies worldwide, CheckPoint FireWall-1 has emerged as the standard for enterprise-wide network security. CheckPoint's products are sold through distributors, resellers and Internet service providers worldwide, including SunSoft, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, and UB Networks and their respective distribution channels.
As the first shrink-wrapped fire wall package, and the first to employ an easy-to-use graphical user interface, FireWall-1 is consistently recognized by trade publications and users for its usability, flexibility, extensibility, and high performance. With more than 5,000 installations worldwide as of March 1996, FireWall-1 is more widely tested in the field than any other network security solution. Based on CheckPoint's unique, patent-pending "stateful inspection" architecture, the product is the most flexible, easy-to-install, -configure, and -maintain fire wall product available. More than 120 applications, services, and protocols are supported out-of-the-box, and administrators can easily customize the fire wall to incorporate new and in-house applications. FireWall-1 allows the enterprise's customized security policy to be created, monitored, and maintained from a single workstation, and enables network managers to configure and manage multiple firewalls throughout the enterprise from one, centralized management station.
CheckPoint Software Technologies, Inc.
For more information, please call (800) 429-4391, e-mail info@checkpoint.com or visit CheckPoint at http://www.checkpoint.com.
Citrix is the leader in enterprise application deployment technologies and products that extend the reach of Microsoft Windows applications to remote users over the public Internet and the extended corporate network.
WinFrame is multiuser Windows application server software based on Windows NT under license from Microsoft that supports enterprise application deployment across the extended corporation network and public Internet. WinFrame's ICA-based universal thin-client software supports Dial-up, LAN, WAN and Internet connections.
Common Ground Software is the leading provider of portable electronic software, specializing in distribution of documents on the World Wide Web.
Common Ground for ActiveX technologies (previously code-named Sweeper) turns any document--no matter what computing platform, application, or fonts were used to create it--into an OLE Document Object that can be viewed within a DocObject container such as Internet Explorer.
Crescent enhances the success of Visual Basic developers, by delivering tools and services that heighten their productivity and provide the foundation for creating reliable, scaleable, business critical applications. We are focused on delivering business value and meeting customer needs, not just selling "cool tools" or the latest "widgets."
Crescent Internet ToolPak is your window to the world of the Internet for Visual Basic 4.0. Build Internet-enabled applications without low-level coding or in-depth knowledge of Internet protocols. There's a wizard that walks you through your Internet application, building the groundwork for your project. Controls include Internet Mail (SMPT and POP), USENET Newsgroups, Web/http, FTP, and client/server, and they all conform to applicable RFC standards. Internet ToolPak works in event-driven mode and the numerous demo programs and sample code make it easy to learn and use.
Established in 1984, Crystal is a world leader in client/server database reporting and an emerging player in the fast-growing business intelligence software market.
Crystal Reports, now the #1 award winning data access and reporting tool with over 2 million units shipped worldwide, is bundled in over 120 shrink-wrapped products by vendors such as Microsoft, PeopleSoft and Netscape.
Launched in 1995, Crystal Info is a 3-tier client/server reporting system that meets the needs of business users for database information. Crystal Info has since won many reviews and awards, including the prestigious PC Week ITX award for best client/server query and reporting tool (April 1996).
Crystal's Internet strategy is bringing these powerful tools to the Internet to become the industry standard reporting solution for the World Wide Web.
Dart Communications manufacturers and licenses TCP/IP software components and products to developers and users.
PowerTCP Toolkits make any Windows application "Internet-aware" with ActiveX controls for TCP, TELNET, FTP, SMTP, POP3, UDP, TFTP, and SNMP.
David Solomon Expert Seminars offers unusual Windows programming seminars by well known industry experts. All seminars are personally developed by the instructors that present them.
Instructors include experts Jeffrey Richter, Matt Pietrek, Richard Hale Shaw, Jamie Hanrahan and David Solomon. Topics include Windows NT Device Drivers, Windows NT Internals, Windows 95 Internals, "Black Belt" Win32, and Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) (including Internet extensions).
DevelopMentor is a complete Windows development campus for the C++ and Visual Basic developer with courses on OLE, C++, and Visual Basic.
The training curriculum includes Windows Architecture, Win32, MFC and Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM), and Windows NT Device Drivers. All courses are hands-on, and are offered as public courses at our facility in Southern California, or on-site.
Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.
At the IPDC, Digital Equipment Corporation featured Microsoft's Internet Information Server running on Digital's Prioris Intel Servers, and Digital's high performance Alpha Servers. We also featured Digital's Internet Roadmap CD, which was made available to all attendees. Digital also featured our award winning new technology, FX!32, which allows users to run 32-bit Intel binaries on the Alpha platform at RISC performance levels.
D.T.L. is a database and Internet search software development company. The company is creating powerful database search tools for the enterprise intranet and Internet applications.
DataSpot server for the Internet enables the Internet publisher to provide users with intuitive access to large, heterogeneous databases. DataSpot allows programming-neutral publishing process, accepts intuitive plain-language queries and supports Microsoft's ISAPI and ActiveX technology.
Durand Communications Network, Inc. was founded in 1991 in Santa Barbara, CA. Durand develops and markets applications, software tools, and services to the online and Internet community.
Mindwire NT is the first LIVE Internet application server available for Windows NT. It offers businesses a platform for live applications such as videoconferencing, which can be run over Internet, LAN, or direct Dial-up.
Enterprise Alternatives specializes in command scripting for Windows and Windows NT.
RxScript Server is an ISAPI Application that offers Web authors scripting they can easily learn and use incrementally. RxScript allows scripting right in your HTML page definitions so Web authors can take their current static HTML page definition and simply add programmed content. RxScript is the easiest way to make your page content dynamic, that is changing each time it is displayed.
RxScript is a "Not JAVA" alternative for those that do not know C, C++ or similar languages such as JAVA and can't take the time to become proficient in the complexities of these languages.
See our Web Site for an example of Rx embedded scripting. Our Web site is http://www.ablecom.net/~winrexx; but will soon be changed to http://www.winrexx.com.
Fulcrum Technologies provides information-retrieval software for the entire enterprise. This software can be used on computer networks, on CD-ROMs and on Internet and WWW sites.
With Fulcrum® Surfboard, organizations can use the Internet to allow customers worldwide to navigate effectively through corporate publications and information. Fulcrum is the company behind the world-leading client/server text-retrieval software.
An innovative software developer, hip communications, Inc. not only develops tools to facilitate the development of interactive Web sites, hip also designs, develops and operates sophisticated Web sites that depend on the same powerful tools.
The hip web kit: A powerful, easy to install Perl development package. The Perl interpreter in the kit is an ISAPI DLL that plugs into Microsoft's IIS, providing a significant performance to Perl scripts.
InContext Corporation is a software developer and publisher specializing in SGML and HTML software products. Products include InContext Spider, InContext WebAnalyzer, and InContext 2.
InContext spider allows an individual or business to quickly and easily author and maintain Web pages. InContext WebAnalyzer allows individuals to analyze the structure and integrity of Web sites and to download entire sites for later review.
Intergraph Computer Systems Hardware products include personal workstations and servers. A member of the Fortune 1000, Intergraph is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computers graphics systems.
Intergraph offers a complete line of Internet servers running Windows NT Server and IIS. These products span a range of applications, from a small departmental intranet to a full commercial site requiring high availability.
Intervista Software Inc. is a pioneer in Internet 3-D technology. WebMaster Inc. is the publisher for Intervista's WorldView.
WorldView is an Internet Access product (browser) based on VRML and Reality Labs/DirectX. WorldView is also an ActiveX control based on the ActiveX technology. WorldView was licensed by Microsoft and was the basis for the VRML plug-in in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Internet Studio. We are also adding support for Active VRML into WorldView, and work very closely with Salim Abiezzi on this technology.
WebMaster Inc. also has a complete Web server suite which complements Microsoft's BackOffice®, and includes NewsRoom (a news server), ConferenceRoom (the first IRC server for Windows NT), WebConsole (remote administration over the Web), HyperList (mailing lists over the Web), and VRServer (VR "on the fly"). The WebMaster suite offers a complete Web server solution for Microsoft® Windows NT®.
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products develops speech recognition, text-to-speech and coding technologies for the computer, multimedia, telecommunications, consumer, and automotive markets. Available in multiple languages.
Lernout & Hauspie's products include the L&H.asr1500/M speech recognition engine, and the L&Htts.2000/M text-to-speech engine. Lernout & Hauspie demonstrated ActiveX versions of its technology that can be used by Internet developers and content provider to "speech-enable" their applications or Web sites.
Lenel is a leading developer of object-oriented multimedia technologies for Microsoft Windows.
Lenel Gallery OCX is a graphical user interface tool for developers to present, access and manage data visually. It integrates graphical thumbnail galleries, menus, and toolbars into applications. MediaDeveloper OCX provides the tools to quickly build multimedia applications with virtually any Windows 95 and Windows NT development environment. Developers can integrate graphics, digital video, analog video, animation, BLOB database support and audio capabilities into their applications.
Lenel MultiMedia Internet Digital Video and Audio ActiveX controls enable Web pages to play video or audio as they are downloading from Web servers without waiting for the entire file to be downloaded.
Macromedia Inc., the leader in digital arts, multimedia and Web publishing software, offers a full range of products for the Windows and Macintosh platforms. The company's flagship products include: Free Hand, Authorware®, Director featuring Shockwave, Extreme 3D, Sound Edit 16, Fontographer®, Deck II , and Macromedia xRes. For additional information about Macromedia please visit our World Wide Web site.
Fontographer® 4.1 for Windows 95, Windows 3.1 , and Windows NT is the most powerful way to modify and create fonts. Targeted at graphic designers and artists designing cross-platform fonts for their print, multimedia, and Internet projects, Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 for Windows has the flexibility and power to allow novices and professionals to create both Windows and Macintosh fonts.
Mainsoft allows cross-platform deployment from one Windows source code base on Unix and OpenVMS for the following technologies: MFC, OLE2, Help, Visual SourceSafe, Visual Test, and soon for Internet Explorer V3.0 and VBScript.
Visual SourceSafe supports Web content author management and source code control for Windows, Mac and Unix. White papers are available on Web team management.
Mainsoft delivers the Windows API on Unix and through MainWin Studio delivers Microsoft development tools on Unix. ActiveX controls technology is supported today on Sun and on the other popular Unix systems later this year.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., MCI is the nation's second largest long-distance carrier and the world's third largest carrier of international calling. MCI offers consumers and businesses a broad portfolio of services including long-distance, wireless, local access, paging, Internet software and access, information services, outsourcing, business software, advanced global telecommunications services, and music distribution and merchandising.
The following products were available at our booth: Workplace Alternatives, Call Center service and Interactive Commerce. Also learn about our Global Alliances MCI has with BT (Concert), Stentor, and Banzcci (Avantel).
MicroHelp develops and markets software that empowers everyone, from programmers to end users, through easy access to complex technologies.
MicroHelp's OLETools is the premier collection of 16- and 32-bit ActiveX controls for visual programming with RAD tools such as Visual Basic and Visual C ++®. Offering more than 100 16/32-bit ActiveX controls in one package, it is an incredibly diverse add-on tool. Controls for interface building, multimedia, time management, and more are included as well as many data aware controls.
The planned enhancements to OLETools will allow developers to build functionality such as progressive rendering of pictures and progressive loading of data into their Web page applications and automate that functionality with Visual Basic® Script. Combined with coming security initiatives such as Microsoft's digital signing, this will make OLETools, and other MicroHelp visual programming products primed for strong Internet application acceptance.
http://www.microsoft.com/DEVONLY/community/cbisv_1.htm
The Component Builders Program offers co-marketing opportunities and early technical information to ISVs for add-ons for Microsoft development tools.
http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/
The Microsoft Developer Network provides technical information and API-level toolkits for all developers worldwide who write applications for Microsoft operating systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/
Microsoft FrontPage is a tool that provides users with the fastest and easiest way to develop and maintain professional-quality Web sites for the Internet or Intranet, without programming.
http://www.microsoft.com/mind/
Fawcette Technical Publications creates an elite set of information tools for computer professionals including: Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, Microsoft Interactive Developer magazine, VBITS conferences, the VBCD, and the Developer's Exchange-www.windx.com
Microsoft Interactive Developer (MIND) is the premier source of information covering the Internet, the We3b, Intranet technology, Web page development, graphics, code, advise and consent, tips and techniques. Written by, and for, professional developers, MIND focuses on creative, multimedia applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/vbasic/
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 is the latest version of the world's best-selling client/server development tool. Visual Basic can now create 16 and 32-bit applications for Windows 95 and Windows NT, as well as Windows 3. x. Using the new Microsoft Internet ActiveX controls or ones available for many third parties, one can easily Internet-enable a new or existing Visual Basic Application.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualc/
Microsoft Visual C++® lets you take advantage of ActiveX technologies in your applications and components. Highlighted at the Professional Developers' Conference was the subject of how to use Visual C++ and the included Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to:
MicroQuill is a leading development tools company. Founded in 1990, the company's product line of C/C++ and database development tools include SmartHeap, HeapAgent, SwapTuner, and CereBase.
CereBase is an object-relational database. CereBase's data storage is sparse and variable length, making it ideal for storing (and indexing) large text. It's also ideal for constantly evolving applications because you can add or delete columns (even via HTML) without a data reorganization.
Motorola is a leading provider of semiconductors, wireless communications, and advanced electronic systems, including PowerPC microprocessors, computers, communications equipment and automotive, defense and aerospace electronics.
PowerPC microprocessors are a truly open standard for advanced computing and run a variety of popular operating systems including Windows NT. Visitors at the booth saw Windows NT applications from Microsoft and other companies running on PowerPC-based systems.
Mystic River Software develops SBL for Internet, multi-platform, and client/server applications, and since 1991 has provided it to makers of communications, control, reporting, accounting, database, testing, multimedia, and other application packages.
SBL is the leading multi-platform embeddable scripting language used by ISVs and IHVs for Windows, client/server, and the Internet applications. Compatible with Visual Basic for Applications, SBL provides unsurpassed embeddable scripting technology, ease of integration, and support for OLE Automation.
NCompass create ActiveX based Internet and Intranet solutions for the business and home developer markets.
NCompass makes a wide range of ActiveX based Internet/intranet applications. The latest version of the NCompass ActiveX Plug-in for NetScape has two impressive new features: Support for Microsoft's DocObjects & compatibility with Microsoft's Internet Explorer specifications.
Japanese Text-to-Speech / Voice recognition Engine.
NEC's Engine is 32-bit code, running on Windows 95 and supports Microsoft's Speech API.
NetManage, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETM) develops, markets, and supports the integrated set of TCP/IP based Intranet applications, Internet connectivity software, server and development tools for Microsoft Window, Windows 95, Windows NT and Mac OS.
NetManage's NEWT Intranet Toolkit is a full set of ActiveX controls based on NetManage's Chameleon award winning TCP/IP application suite for building custom intranet applications. ActiveX controls for: WinSock, WinCGI, clients for: (FTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP3 and HTTP, with HTML 3.0 extensions.)
NuMega, the world wide leader in Windows automated error detector and advanced debugging technology, will demonstrate its BoundsChecker and SoftICE products. These products are used by developers to improve productivity and software quality.
BoundsChecker, which detects over 85 unique programming errors and validates over 5,000 API calls, now provides support for Active X and Internet-enabled development. BoundsChecker performs reference counts, parameter validations, and return validations on ActiveX controls and Internet API interfaces and controls.
BoundsChecker checks all of the code and interfaces including ActiveX, URLMON and HLINK. Additionally, BoundsChecker validate hundreds of new DLL functions including the Internet's most popular programming interface, the WinSock API.
OnLive! Technologies is a developer and market of client/server software that enables real-time virtual experiences between people online.
VRML Browser allows real-time voice communication between groups of people in a 3-D virtual environment. Users navigate through communities of a 3-D world represented by their own 3-D avatars and converse in real time.
Oracle Corporation is the world's largest supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of approximately 3.5 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products along with related consulting, education and support services, in more than 90 countries around the world.
WebServer 2.0 is an application development platform for building Web-based database applications. WebServer 2.0 will enhance the Internet Information Server as an application development platform by using Internet Information Server as the built in http requester for Microsoft Windows NT. WebServer 2.0 will also support Visual Basic Scripting Edition as an application development language, PowerBrowser is an application development platform for creating data-rich applications.
Pinnacle Publishing is a leading provider of technical newsletters, special reports, electronic publishing, and software tools for developers. At the Internet Professional Developers Conference, Pinnacle displayed a broad set of high value information products for ActiveX Developers.
"The Pros Talk Internet" is a series of five special reports that provide in-depth information for developers using ActiveX technologies to develop Internet applications. "Microsoft Internet Server Professional" is our newest monthly newsletter, and includes insightful articles and step-by-step instructions to help you exploit the power of Microsoft Internet Information Server and the soon-to-be-released Proxy, Media, and Merchant servers. Visit our Web site to tap into this valuable information resource for Microsoft ActiveX developers: http://www.pinpub.com.
Powersoft leads the client/server development tools industry with technology that addresses the needs of users at every level of complexity throughout the enterprise.
Optima++, the hot new RAD tool powered by C++, and PowerBuilder 5.0, the industry's favorite client/server development environment, will soon offer powerful Internet deployment capabilities, and build Internet clients and server, including support for Microsoft ActiveX controls.
Progressive Networks, based in Seattle, develops and markets software products and services design to enable users of personal computer and other digital devices to send and receive audio and audio-based multimedia services using the existing Internet infrastructure,
Progressive Network's RealAudio system is a client-server based audio-on-demand delivery system for the Internet. With the RealAudio Encorder and Server, providers of news, entertainment, sports and business content can create and deliver audio-based multimedia content through the Internet. With the RealAudio Player, users equipped with conventional multimedia personal computers and voice-grade telephone lines can browse, select, and play back audio-on-demand, without download delays. RealAudio System Version 2.0 adds to the current release by incorporating live broadcast capability, music, multimedia synchronization, and the ability to broadcast to much larger audiences.
Saros Corporation, the document management market leader, delivers advanced software that transforms PC data into safe and reusable information assets available on demand, anytime and anywhere.
Saros Document Server for BackOffice, the BackOffice librarian, is a special version of Saros Mezzanine designed expressly for the Microsoft BackOffice family of server products. Saros Document Server uses the power and reliability of BackOffice to create an enterprise-wide electronic information library. BackOffice users benefit from network-wide Smart Search, check-in/check-out, version control, object level security and more. Functionality is optimized to take full advantage of the rich set of services provided by BackOffice products and designed to provide the accuracy and manageability needed for reliable enterprise collaboration and information management.
Sax Software's Smarter Components let developers reap all the benefits of Microsoft's ActiveX technologies. Visit Sax at http://www.saxsoft.com for more detailed information. Sax Webster Control is a royalty-free, embeddable Web browser in an ActiveX control. Webster supports 32- and 16-bit development and level 3.0 HTML. You can use VBA to control Webster from within Visual Basic or Access to put interactive Web access into existing Windows applications. Sax NetSell Server works with Microsoft Information Server to turn your web server into an online sales force. NetSell manages your virtual store's customer database, maintains a subscription service, processes credit-card orders securely, handles inventory management, and more. Sax NetSell Server lets you use the Internet's technology to your company's best advantage.
http://www.sbt.com/sbtlib/ls-mssbt.html
WebTrader Client/Server is an Intent order-entry system, using Microsoft's BackOffice. SBT connects existing business applications to the Internet using links to establish information systems. These links will use the Microsoft-sponsored Internet Server application programming interface (ISAPI) as a programming interface to Microsoft's BackOffice. The combination of WebTrader Client/Server and Microsoft BackOffice will allow robust, secure transaction processing and server enforced data integrity. With WebTrader C/S, you can have a dynamic catalog for your Internet site that can be updated instantly as well as a "shopping cart" that allows customers to easily track and purchase products. Visit our home page at http://www.sbt.com.
SPIDER TECHNOGIES, Inc., is dedicated to providing leading Web/database applications and solutions to companies and developers leveraging the Web as a new business environment.
SPIDER is a visual Web/database application builder that allows customers to quickly and easily build and maintain Web/database applications, without programming.
Spyglass develops and licenses World Wide Web component client and server technologies that are designed to be embedded in a variety of applications and services.
Spyglass Mosaic is client technology for viewing World Wide Web (WWW) content. The Spyglass Server SDK is a high-performance development kit for building applications ranging from high-traffic commercial sites to personal Web servers.
Software testing, training and engineering services, events, and information for developers of Windows Internet and communications software.
Stardust WinSock Labs provides comprehensive hardware, software, and network resources for testing the interoperability of WinSock Software. Applications can be tested against over fifty different Ethernet, Dial-up and gateway WinSock implementations, and various fire walls.
Summit Software develops, markets, and supports BASIC-language scripting engine technologies and related development tools.
BasicScript version 2.2 is a complete, embeddable scripting language with powerful OLE Automation and Internet scripting capabilities, with support for ActiveX controls. BasicScript is available for more than twenty platforms, including Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, OS/2 and Mac OS.
Summit Software has nearly one hundred licensees. Delrina Corporation, Intel Corporation, Autodesk, Inc., Frame Technology Corporation, and Symantec Corporation are just a few of Summit's current customers.
Sylvan Ascent Inc. is revolutionizing the desktop mapping industry with its mapping ActiveX control, and now an ActiveX control for the Internet.
SylvanMaps/OCX is a powerful Geographic Mapping and Analysis (GIS) ActiveX control for the Internet. Embedded into a VBScript application the ActiveX control enables mapping of data in any ODBC database, even huge data warehouses.
Template Graphics Software, Inc. combined with its European subsidiary G5G, is the largest independent vendor of cross-platform, standards-based, 3-D graphics software tools for application developers.
Visual 3Space Browser Control is a 3D/VRML Browser ActiveX control, used to add Internet 3-D functionality to Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic and Internet Explorer.
Open Inventor for Win32 is a 3-D C++ graphics development toolkit, used to create applications in simulation, modeling, data visualization and VRML markets.
TVobjects Corp., a leading manufacturer of Internet development tools, announced the release of VBnet 2.0--a Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 add-in that allows Visual Basic to generate client/server Internet applications.
With VBnet, developers prototype standard client/server applications using Visual Basic and then invoke the VBnet Internet Wizard to generate a robust Web application directly from the Visual Basic project. VBnet creates ActiveX controls and Java-enabled Web pages that can be viewed by Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 2.0. In addition, VBnet automatically generates Web ODBC database access for database-bound controls found in the Visual Basic project.
VDOnet Corporation has developed and markets VDOLive technology and products enabling desktop video broadcasting and desktop videoconferencing on the Internet and over regular telephone lines and private networks.
VDOLive enables real-time video over the Internet by conquering the technical challenges of low bandwidth on the Internet. The VDOLive Video Server continually maximizes the quality of the video depending on the network speed available. The VDOLive Player works with any browser and is available free to download at http://www.VDOLive.com
Verity topicSEARCH for Microsoft Internet Information Server: With topicSEARCH for Microsoft Internet Information Server, Webmasters can now build enhanced publishing application that include sophisticated search and retrieval functionality. TopicSEARCH for Microsoft Internet Information Server complements the traditional hypertext navigation capabilities of Web Servers with the power of the Topic search engine for cataloging and searching of information across the Internet.
Videosoft VSFlex Internet Version includes FlexArray, a control that presents an innovative approach to spreadsheet or grid controls. It give you and your user total flexibility to select how to display, sort, merge, and format information. FlexArray is not only compact and extremely fast, it's also light in system resources. FlexArray enables users to dynamically create ad-hoc reports by visually pivoting columns.
Visioneer Inc. develops and market products that provide a fast and easy way to get paper into computers and put it to work.
PaperPort allows users to get documents of any size to and through the Internet. The PaperPort Viewer Plug-in will allow all Internet users to view the document regardless of whether they have PaperPort software.
Fawcette Technical Publications creates an elite set of information tools for the computer professional including: Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, Microsoft Interactive Developer magazine, VBITS conference, the VBCD, and the Developer's Exchange www.windx.com.
Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, targeted at the exploding Windows development market, delivers critical hands-on coverage of the latest Windows tools for Programmers using Visual Basic, C++, and OLE. VBPJ is published monthly by Fawcette Technical Publications.
VMARK Software, Inc., Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., is one of the fastest growing suppliers of software services for the client/server business solutions market.
Object Studio 5.0 application development environment features extensive support for IKE 2.0/COM. Applications developers can build better quality applications with new functionality significantly faster because Object Studio combines the benefits of programming, client/server technology and ActiveX componentware.
At the IPDC, Wall Data was proud to show RUMBA® OFFICE 95/NT; a product that further extends Wall Data®'s product leadership position in host and server connectivity. We demonstrated getting the business user connected to information they need through a powerful user interface designed to optimize the capabilities of Microsoft®'s 32-bit desktop platforms. Supported hosts are IBM® Mainframe, AS/400®, VAX and UNIX® systems. AS/400 connectivity was demonstrated on the show floor. Built as a set of ActiveX controls, RUMBA OFFICE 95/NT offers unparalleled functionality for business users and application developers. Developers can work with a set of RUMBA ActiveX controls to quickly generate custom client/server solutions.
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Wayfarer Communications, at the Microsoft IPDC, announced that its QuickServer Internet application server now supports full client integration with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 through the QuickServer ActiveX control, enabling users to download and run high-performance client/server applications for their Internet Explorer Web browser.
Wayfarer's QuickServer Internet application server software combines the power of client/server technology with the reach of corporate intranets and the Internet. QuickServer offers an API that works with the leading ActiveX-compliant development tools like Visual Basic. Developers can create multi-tier applications that are automatically performance-tuned for the Internet. QuickServer reduces network usage by 11 times or more, delivering LAN-level response times even over 14.4 modem connections. That means high-performance applications are available for customers, employees, or suppliers through any intranet for Internet connection.
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