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Server products. September 19, 1994. More than three years ago, InfoWorld began running weekly ease studies about businesses implementing client/serv er tech- nology. Today, our real-world studies are one of the most popular departments in InfoWorld.
And for some great reasons. According to our readers, the studies not only help them make informed client/server buying decisions, but also promote the use of such technology in their businesses, justi- fy their purchases and anticipate any chal- lenges during implementation. The first of its kind. With all that experience as the source of weekly client/server information, who bet- ter than InfoWorld to publish the first issue of its kind in the industry and the first in an annual series showcasing the 100 most in- novative client/server implementation strategies.
We call it the InfoWorld 100. We’ll name names: the top businesses that are working with the technology and the top vendors — as identified by leading IS managers- that are helping these businesses succeed. Your products or services could be on the list.
Based on hundreds of in-depth inter- views. Earlier this year, we polled our readers and asked them about their experience with client/server. Then we conducted hundreds of in- depth interviews to arrive at the InfoWorld 100- a valuable, unique resource that will be used time and time again by our readers- thc IS managers who are buying your kind of products and serv ices in volume.
Lots of details in the issue. Readers will learn about the type of busi- nesses that arc implementing client/server technology, where they’re located and what hardware/software they're currently using, such as bus architectures, PC/vvorkstations and LAN/host operating systems. Are the businesses implementing new applications? Or downsizing from legacy systems? We’ll have detailed answers.
We'll also describe how they’re putting the technology to work in financial trading systems, inventory management, election returns tracking, hazardous materials track- ing and a variety of other projects. There will be information on their net- working and application development tools, protocols and topologies.
Not to mention their challenges. And we’ll include the results, benefits and payback analysis of the implementation strategies. Client/server through and through. Virtually all of the September 19 issue, including the columns, reviews and Enterprise Computing section, will be devoted to looking at the big picture of client/server computing today. We'll do a reality check, describing where we are. How that compares to the promises of yesterday and what the future holds— prov iding a great information source for IS managers. And a v ehicle like no other to help you advertise client/server products and services.
If you want to reach the IS managers implementing this technology, and keep on reaching them throughout the year, the September 19 issue of InfoWorld is the place to be. Closing date is August 24, 1994.
So don’t delay. Call your InfoWorld representative today, (800) 227-8365. And come into our world. Copyrighted material NkWbPAPbH U9b ENTERPRISE COMPUTING PRODUCT COMPARISON FOUNDED IN 1978 INFO WORLD Chicago stays true to old applications Its mixture of 32-bit and 16-bit code will fire up operating system services. See page 45 The unknown soldier of data recovery Tape backup software is an invisible yet vital force in data management See page 52 JULY 4, 1 994 THE VOICE OF PERSONAL COMPUTING IN THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME 1 6, ISSUE 27 IBM chip to serve as Pentium upgrade IBM will launch revamped E-mail strategy in fall Plan rivals Microsoft’s Exchange PowerPC chip fits by Cate Corcoran and Tom Quinlan NEW YORK — IBM Micro- electronics is developing a PowerPC chip that promises to transform Intel Corp.
PCs into PowerPC machines. Users will be able to slip the 615 chip into their OverDrive slots — the same upgrade sock- et Intel wants to use for future Pentium chips, sources said. IBM is determining how it will design the processor, and if it will market it directly to cus- IBM PC Server to by Cate Corcoran NEW YORK — IBM’s PC cus- tomers will soon be able to improve processor perfor- mance with symmetrical multi- John Soyring said the addi- tion of an SMP version makes OS/2 more versatile.
In OverDrive slot tomers or try to sell it through other system manufacturers as an upgrade option. The 615 is being designed to have the same number of pin outs as a Pentium upgrade chip, sources said, and could be used to transform a 60-MHz Pentium into a PowerPC. IBM Microelectronics began exploring using the 615 as a Pentium upgrade after IBM’s Power Personal division indi- cated it wasn’t interested in the processor, which is essentially a See POWERPC, page 75 ship in August processing (SMP) machines and software. IBM at PC Expo here last week announced it will ship OS/2 for Symmetrical Multi- processing in August and demonstrated the software and various applications running on a prototype IBM PC Server. The IBM PC Server, which IBM expects to ship when the software is available, comes with two 90-MHz Pentium P54C processors and a special motherboard design to control the two processors. It features 512KB of write-back cache, 64MB of RAM, nine bays, a SCSI-2 controller. Super VGA graphics, and a 1 -gigabyte fast SCSI hard drive.
The server may have a slight- ly different configuration when it ships, IBM officials said. See SMP, page 75 Compaq allies with Oracle for IS support By bob Francis AND MIKE RICCIUTI Compaq Computer Corp.’s campaign to establish itself as a major player in enterprise com- puting will take a leap forward later this month via a strategic relationship with Oracle Corp., similar to one the database company announced with Digital Equipment Corp.
Sources inside Houston- based Compaq said Oracle will optimize its Oracle7 software for Compaq's line of servers, pushing those Intel Corp.- based servers closer in perfor- mance and reliability to that of RISC servers and specialized servers from vendors such as Hewlett-Packard Co. And Pyramid Technology Corp. The two companies will offer IS managers systems and data management tools, connectivi- ty products, and support and consulting assistance in migrat- ing Oracle7 to Compaq’s server platform, sources within Compaq said. For IS managers, the agree- ment signals that PC-based servers can handle mission-crit- ical applications often still con- signed to the corporate main- frame and minicomputer, ana- lysts and users said.
“This could make us IS man- agers a lot more confident in the Intel server platform as a downsizing tool,” said Joanne See COMPAQ, page 75 BY BOB WALLACE To spur development of com- puter-telephony applications. Northern Telecom Inc. Will release by year’s end software so that applications written to the dueling Microsoft Corp. And Novell Inc. APIs can inter- operate with telephone systems from major switchmakers.
The new Tmap software, cre- ated largely by Northern Telecom with support from Microsoft and Novell, allows BY STEVE POULU AND VANCE MCCARTHY IBM plans to get E-mail off the mainframe in a big way this fall, when it reveals an aggressive plan for letting users share multimedia messages, and cal- endaring, and scheduling. IBM’s plan calls for a client/server architecture to compete head on with Micro- soft Corp.’s emerging Exhange messaging server. Its weapons will be a high- performance messaging back- bone based on upgrading tech- applications for Microsoft’s Telephony API (TAPI) to run on networks using Novell’s NetWare Telephony Services API (TSAPI). Although Northern Telecom went to great lengths to devel- op the sorely needed software, a representative for the tele- phone systems giant said the software will be made available later this year for all interested telephone systems vendors — including those that compete with Northern Telecom.
Nologies in its UltiMail TCP/IP multimedia mail client for the Internet and Unix mail. Matched with specially built intelligent client software, the package will let users send mes- sages with audio, images, full- motion video, and even voice- to-text conversion. The UltiMail back end should not be confused with IBM’s current Ultimedia video server products for workgroups using IBM’s LAN Server. “Our customers have asked us time and time again to pro- See IBM, page 75 “We have to make it avail- able to the entire industry because it will eventually mean we’ll all be able to sell more products,” the representative said. “And if we decided to keep it to ourselves, there’s a strong chance that we could be locked out by a competing plan.” Analysts applauded North- ern Telecom’s strategy. “Today, there’s widespread industry confusion because See TMAP page 75 Big Blue to jump on SMP bandwagon with server Q ^.
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Apple will also add Intel’s Indeo com- pression technology to the Macintosh and Windows versions of QuickTime. Apple is now shipping QuickTime 2.0 for the Macintosh and plans to ship the Windows version in the fall. The company also demonstrated an improved 50-MHz 486DX2 coprocessor board for its Power Macintosh systems that will give users better performance and a wider range of software compati- bility than the SoftWindows emulation from Insignia Solutions Inc. That’s cur- rently available. Pricing and availability has not been set, but Apple expects the price will be comparable to its $500 DOS Com- patibility Card for the Quadra 610. Ship- ments will start in the fall.
IBM to upgrade cache in Blue Lightning chips BY BROOKE CROTHERS IBM Microelectronics will make design improvements to its 100-MHz Blue Lightning processor to boost perfor- mance, including a cache upgrade simi- lar to some of the design enhancements Intel Corp. Will implement in its DX2 and DX4 processors. Late this year or early in 1995, IBM will bring out a redesigned 100-MHz Blue Lightning processor that uses a write-back cache and a full-fledged 486 bus.
For the first time, IBM will use a real 486 bus design, not the 386-like bus that it has been using in the SLC line. IBM will also switch from a slower write- through cache to a high-performance write-back cache. A write-back cache can boost perfor- mance by as much as 30 percent over write-through cache designs in lower- end desktops and notebooks that do not use second-level caches.
Intel also said recently that it will con- vert its 66-MHz 486DX2 processor and its IntelDX4 line to a write-back cache. The IBM Blue Lighting line is now divided into two distinct designs: the SX- based SLC, which does not include a floating-point unit (FPU); and a DX2 line with an FPU based on a Cyrix Corp.
Originally dubbed the 486SLC but recently taking on the Blue Lightning label, the triple-speed 33-MHz/100-MHz “SX3” chip is part of the Intel-IBM legacy. IBM was allowed to borrow from Intel X86 designs but was greatly restricted in how it could implement its own varia- tions on the x86 theme. IBM can only sell its Intel drive prod- ucts as part of a board-level solution, not as stand-alone processors. © 1994 Iomega Corporation.
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In addition to taking dictation, the system can be used to initi- ate application commands, in- cluding controlling mouse movements through voice com- mands. These capabilities could be of special interest to the disabled or those suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, the company said. Competitor Kurzweil Applied Intelligence Inc. Recently un- veiled its first Windows speech recognition package, which re- quires the use of DSP boards.
Some analysts believe the Dragon introduction presages the next wave of speech recog- nition offerings. “Before, if you had Windows, speech software wasn’t fully integrated and you couldn't use it with your Windows apps.' Said William Meisel, editor of Speech Recognition Update, in Encino. “I believe all the speech software vendors will move toward the use of stan- dard sound cards.” DragonDictate for Windows 1.0 requires a 33-MHz 486 processor, 7MB of dedicated RAM, and 17MB of free hard disk space.
It will be available in three flavors: the $395 Dragon- Dictate Starter Edition, with a 5,000-word vocabulary; the $695 Classic Edition, with a 30,000- word vocabulary; and the $1,695 Power Edition, with 60,000 words. Vocabularies can be modified to handle job-related jargon. Dragon, in Newton, Mass., is at (617) 965-5200. By YVonne L lee I n another chapter in the long quest for a unified Unix, X/Open Co. Plans to re- lease in the third quarter a specification for a common Unix that X/Open says will break through to a new level of application portability. The SPEC 1170 — jointly sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Novell Inc.’s Unix Systems Group, the Open Soft- ware Foundation, and SunSoft Inc., a division of Sun Microsys- tems Inc.
— has completed X/Open’s fast-track review process and is complete, except for final editing, X/Open’s chief technical officer Mike Lambert told a group of developers late last month. No additions have been made to the specification since Sep- tember. Lambert said.
The specification, which will supercede the current XPG4 specification, has been dubbed SPEC 1170 because it incorpo- rates approximately 1,170 Unix function calls and APIs. The specification defines ter- minal communications, file sys- tem and memory functions, math, TCP/IP network commu- nications, and other core oper- ating system functions. The sponsors developed the set of APIs by examining the inter- By Scott mace New tools for testing and con- necting existing client/server applications and speeding the development of new ones high- lighted last week’s Database & Client/Server World show in Boston. Legent Corp. Of Hern- don, Va., upgraded its Windows-based $10,000 Ace Tester 1. 1 to allow multideveloper testing of Oracle Corp. Applica- tions.
The product lets de- velopers test and debug Ora- cle Forms 3.0 and 4.0 source code, as well as code written in Oracle PL/SQL, the procedural language used by Oracle server applications. Version 1.1 reports cumulative testing on all code and notes parts. Legent also shipped Unix tools to automate job schedul- ing (Ace JobScheduler) and de- fragmenting of databases (Ace Reorg) for $5,000 and $7,500, respectively. Faces used in the 50 most com- mon Unix applications.
An operating system will have to comply with all the interfaces in the specification in order to be called Unix in the future, X/Open officials said. X/Open hopes to release a conformance test suite for appli- cations and operating systems in the fourth quarter of this year; software with the group’s ap- Sponsors of common Unix ♦ Hewlett-Packard Co. ♦ IBM 4 Novell Inc. (Unix Systems Group) ♦ Open Software Foundation ♦ SunSoft Inc. Proved Unix branding should follow by mid-1995. Having a common set of core functions will mean that most applications will be able to run on the various Unix platforms after developers recompile them for the appropriate pro- cessor, said Andrew Allison, consultant and publisher of In- side the New Computer Industry. Progress Software Corp.
Of Bedford, Mass., shipped Pro- gress DataServer, which lets most Progress fourth-generation language (4GL) applications ac- cess data in Oracle and Sybase Inc. Databases with virtually no changes to the Progress applica- tion. The company is now ship- ping Windows clients with Oracle7 and Sybase 4.x servers.
A five-user Win- dows license is $360. KnowledgeWare Inc. Of Atlanta, and Dig- italk Inc. Of Santa Ana, Calif., are shipping a link be- tween KnowledgeWare’s Appli- cation Development Work- bench (ADW) and Digitalk’s Parts Assembly and Reuse Tool Set (PARTS).
The $3,995 PARTS Wrapper for ADW takes ADW models of business requirements into PARTS as components which developers can assemble with other components into client/ server applications. The Wrap- per is available from either com- Major vendors will try to com- ply with the specification because it will increase the num- ber of applications their operat- ing systems will be able to run and because they will not be able to sell their products in Europe without the X/Open branding, Allison added. Still, Unix vendors may add specific features to their OSes that go beyond SPEC 1170 with the aim of differentiating their products, said Dominic Ricchet- ti, principal analyst for worksta- tions worldwide at Dataquest Inc., in San Jose, Calif. Applications that support the additional features of a particu- lar operating system, however, would not be able to run on oth- er Unix systems, which has been a stumbling block for many campaigns toward a common Unix, according to some Unix industry observers.
This has left some users skep- tical of proposed Unix specifica- tions such as SPEC 1 170. “They’ve seen too many ini- tiatives. None have succeeded in unifying Unix and eliminating the jungle,” said Bruce Jenkins, vice president of Daratech Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., CAD/ CAM and technical computing market research firm. Q — Martin LaMonica, Boston correspondent for the IDG News Service, contributed to this story. Digitalk works with Smalltalk, C, or Cobol lan- guages for Windows, OS/2, Windows NT, and Macintosh. Information Builders Inc.
Of New York announced Release 3 of Enterprise Data Access (EDA)/SQL, which will provide access from any Microsoft Corp. Or Sybase SQL Server DB-Lib client or any Distributed Rela- tional Database Architecture (DRDA) client to EDA/SQL. The EDA/SQL gateway pro- vides transparent access to more than 60 different databases and file structures on 35 platforms. Release 3 ships in July. New Hub Servers for OS/2 and Unix, also due in July, will be able to perform database joins via EDA even if the tables are spread among several hard- ware platforms. EDA/SQL Sup- port for the Distributed Com- puting Environment and native single log-on security will ship by year’s end, as well as support for the X/Open SQL Call Level Interface on OS/2 and AIX. Product Spotlight Scitor boosts data field options Version 1.5 of Scitor Corp.’s $695 Project Scheduler 6 for Windows lets users import and export se- lected data fields — a first for project man- agement soft- ware.
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Talked some more last week about its upsizing strategy at the long-awaited launch of dBase for Windows at PC Expo in New York, some corporations impatient to get on the upsizing train have already resort- ed to a little publicized but reportedly powerful solution. The Advantage Xbasc Server, from Extended Systems Inc. Idaho, is a NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) that shipped in August 1993. The data- base uses Xbase code written in Comput- er Associates International Inc.’s CA- Clipper 5.0 for DOS to run on file servers, and lets users convert the data- base to client/server applications that run on both PCs and servers. Once these Clipper applications are converted, the NLM handles all data locking issues, boosting speed and reduc- ing the risk of deadlocks.
Although the installed base of Clipper for DOS applications is significantly smaller than that of dBase or FoxPro, its users claim that the simple but seamless conversion has offered the data security and performance enhancements that Ex- tended Systems' larger upsizing competi- tors are still promising. Some Advantage XBase users say the conversion process, which involves link- ing the application to a new Extended Systems driver, takes only hours if it uses a well-behaved application written in CA-Clipper 5.0 for DOS running on a file server, which Extended Systems claims includes thousands of applications. At Golden Eagle Insurance in San Diego, converting existing Clipper code into a functioning client/server applica- tion involved writing only a few lines of code, plus recompiling and linking, and took only a few hours, said Ken Van Tassel, Golden Eagle project leader. According to industry analysts, this is a fraction of what most downsizing projects require. But the project has brought Golden Eagle comparable performance improvements to those often boasted for downsizing efforts. Using its new client/server application running on an XBase Server, Golden Eagle has greatly increased its output.
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“Before Advantage Xbase Server, we were able to print at best 1,000 to 1,500 checks over a 12-to-15-hour day,” Van Tassell said. “We can now print 2,600 an hour.” The Advantage Xbase application could handle another 300 users without performance being affected. Van Tassell added. The Advantage XBase Server is also dramatically boosting the performance of applications with fewer users. Arlington, Va.-based SatoTravel used to need two PCs running concurrently for 18 to 21 hours to process one week of sales data. “With Advantage Xbase Server, it takes 3 to 3-and-a-quarter hours,' said Keith Venske, manager of Sato’s Settle- ment Plan. Sato's application is used by an average of seven users, or 15 at peak periods.
The application helps Sato track sales, refunds, and exchanged tickets for 1,000 sales offices. At Jostens, a manufacturer of high school and college mementos, a telemar- keting application written in Summer 87 Clipper converted cleanly to Clipper 5.0 and Advantage Xbase Server in 4 hours, said Tom Sands, programmer and analyst in charge of PC development at the Bloomington, Minn., company. Response time for pulling up customer records plunged from 70 seconds to 8 sec- onds, Sands said. The growing number of upsizing suc- cess stories is in part what is attracting the attention of larger companies such as Borland and Oracle Corp.
Both have made it clear they intend to capitalize on the upsizing boom, but so far have offered few tools to do so. “You will see the term upsizing used in Microsoft, Oracle, and Sybase ads, be- cause upsizing is the more important is- sue than downsizing,” said Ken Gardner, vice president of products at Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland. Borland has shipped several upsizing products — SQL Links for dBase, Para- dox DOS, and Paradox for Windows — but users have reported that these solu- tions require extensive coding, unlike Ex- tended Systems' solution. Borland plans to catch up this summer when it ships dBase for Windows. APC Tripp Voted most reliable by 3-to-1 In a recent poll by PC Magazine’s MagNet, APC was voted the most reliable UPS manufacturer by a 3- to-1 margin. That’s dependability that will see you though years of unmatched power protection. MAGAZNE When all elsefaft T here are three types of computer users: those who have lost data due to a power problem, those who are going to, and those who have protected them- selves against the inevitable surge, black- out or brownout with the most reliable UPS they can buy: Back-UPS by APC.
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Other trademarks are the property of their owners. Specs subject to change without notice INFO WORLD JULY 4, 1 994 PAGE 25 Window Manager / Brian Livingston 32-Bit File Access stirs up trouble with some I have heard re- ports for some time about prob- lems with the 32- Bit File Access option in Windows for Workgroups 3.11. But I have not been able to identify what would cause these problems.
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You also should not use 32-Bit Disk Access on PCs with power management features, because Windows might try to access the hard disk when it has been powered down. 32-Bit File Access is a different ani- mal. It is specifically designed to im- prove disk performance. When you enable it, you can set the size of its pro- tected-mode disk cache. Usually, 1MB to 2MB of cache will do. Now, back to the reported problems with 32-Bit File Access. The issue seems to arise when a user starts a DOS session or application under Windows.
In some cases, if 32-Bit File Access is enabled, the DOS session crashes with the mes- sage, “This Application Has Violated System Integrity.” After this message, the system itself may become unstable. Turning off 32-Bit File Access seems to cure this problem, whether it was caused by a plain DOS session or a par- ticular DOS application. But it is a mad- dening problem for applications ven- dors. They get calls from users about the crashes, and the only solution vendors offer is that turning off 32-Bit File Access solves the problem. There is a utility that at least repro- duces the problem so it can be studied and, I hope, corrected. It is called Test32F, and it’s available free from the bulletin board run by Firefly Software Systems Corp. Of Wilsonville, Ore.
Dial (503) 694-2220 with your modem set to 8N1 and download the file TST32F.ZIP. When you decompress this file, you get TST32F.386, which is a Windows vir- tual-device driver, plus a README file and 9KB of assembly-language source code. Place the following line in the 386Enh section of your SYSTEM.INI file: device=x: directory tst32f.386 With 32-Bit File Access turned on, restart Windows. When you start a DOS session, you will receive the message, 'This Application Has Violated System Integrity.” The driver has made a legal disk access (as developers can see from the source code), but the DOS session has crashed anyway. Microsoft is aware that 32-Bit File Access is not compatible with some disk utilities, but that is a bit different from the problem. I’ll continue with their response next week.
Brian Livingston is the author of Windows 3.1 Secrets and More Windows Secrets, and co-author of Windows Gizmos ( IDG Books). Send tips to brianlivingston@- infoworid.com or fax them to (206) 282- 1248. INFOWORLD Copyrighted material Ours. Some People s Idea Of A Hassle-Free Modem. RWO/H.WObps PCMCIA Fax Modem » jjffi j m Id mm am Ft No question.
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