Linux Commercial HOWTO Martin Michlmayr, tbm@cyrius.com, http://www.cyrius.com/tbm v3.54, 31 January 1997 This document contains a listing of commercial software and applica­ tions which are offered for Linux. It is maintained by Martin Michlmayr . 1. About this document This is the Linux Commercial HOWTO. It contains a listing of commercial software which is available for Linux. The Commercial HOWTO doesn't contain any information on Linux distributions -- this is covered by the Distribution HOWTO. This document was originated by Harald Milz . It is now maintained by Martin Michlmayr . If you need to know more about the Linux Documentation Project or about Linux HOWTO's, feel free to contact the supervisor Greg Hankins . Greg Hankins will post the listing to several national and international newsgroups on a monthly basis. In addition, the Commercial HOWTO can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cyrius.com/tbm/Commercial-HOWTO. New versions of the Commercial HOWTO are always placed at this site first, so please be sure to check if the copy you are reading is still up to date! The Commercial HOWTO is not a forum for product announcements or marketing hype; it is a service for potential customers and the whole Linux community. Resellers will not be listed; the list is for companies who produce their software themselves. Two main goals are being aimed at: · It shall help companies who want to run Linux to find software solutions and applications. The international distribution of this list will enhance the contact opportunity. · It is meant to prove the commercial useability of Linux and thus to encourage other vendors to port their software as well. Companies and developers who are offering their products for Linux and interested in joining the Commercial HOWTO are invited to fill out the following form and contact me at tbm@cyrius.com. This HOWTO contains tabular entries for each product (example follows). The entry format is similar to the Linux Software Map (LSM) entry (field/stanza lengths are arbitrary). If you want me to add your entry please keep short, otherwise I'll have to shorten your data. Furthermore, please send me plain ASCII data; no HTML, and no PostScript. Category: Databases, Data Visualisation, Development tools, Financial Software, Mathematics, Network Management, Text Processing, X Windows or Other Software. Name: The name of your application. Description: SHORT description of the package, just the basic functionality. Licensing Policy: Whatever applies. Is there a free demo or shareware version available via FTP or WWW? Where? OS Provisions: Kernel version, XFree86 version, Motif version, RAM, harddisk usage, etc. Documentation: Printed documentation, page number, online help, language. Extra Features and Add-Ons: (and their prices) Price Range: Whatever it costs. Vendor: Address: Phone: (U.S. and Canada: if you like to be reachable internationally, please don't enter only a 1-800 or 1-900 number) Fax: EMail: Url: Contact: 2. Copyright Information This HOWTO is Copyright © 1996, 1997 by Martin Michlmayr. A verbatim copy may be reproduced or distributed in any medium physical or electronic without permission of the author. Translations are similarly permitted without express permission if it includes a notice on who translated it. Short quotes may be used without prior consent by the author. Derivative work and partial distributions of the Commercial HOWTO must be accompanied with either a verbatim copy of this file or a pointer to the verbatim copy. Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however, the author would like to be notified of any such distributions. In short, we wish to promote dissemination of this information through as many channels as possible. However, we do wish to retain copyright on the HOWTO documents, and would like to be notified of any plans to redistribute the HOWTOs. We further want that all information provided in the HOWTOs is disseminated. If you have questions, please contact Greg Hankins, the Linux HOWTO coordinator, at gregh@sunsite.unc.edu. 3. Disclaimer This HOWTO is not actually a HOWTO in the sense of the Linux Documentation Project. Instead, it is an instrument to investigate the commercial Linux opportunity and to list applications which were already ported and marketed in a native Linux version. As a software vendor, you probably know that you can alternatively offer Linux users a statically linked SCO version of your application which would probably run under the iBCS2 emulator (albeit with a small performance penalty and higher memory requirements). Such applications will not be listed here (see the iBCS2 documentation at ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/BETA/ibcs2). I will not select nor deselect any particular product. Instead, everyone who wants to have her product included will be serviced. However, I reserve the right to shorten individual entries to keep things in shape. If you don't find a particular product or vendor in this list, this is probably due to one of the following reasons: · I never heard of that product or vendor and thus didn't try to get in contact. · I did get in contact, but the vendor didn't answer yet. · I did get in contact, but the vendor stated positively that he doesn't sell his product for Linux (yet). In any case, please get in contact if you feel someone's missing; also if you discover any errors in the file. Sometimes two vendor's addresses are mentioned in the ``Vendor:'' field. In these cases I received the information from the German subsidiary/distributor. The original manufacturer's address is always mentioned first. 4. Related Information There's another HTML page which covers commercial Linux software. It is maintained by Alan Cox and can be found at http://www.linux.org.uk/LxCommercial.html. In addition, feel free to visit the All-Linux Shopping Mall at http://www.all-linux.com. 5. Linux for the Commercial Market? Copyright © 1996 iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin Courtesy of iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin! People keep asking me ``When is Linux going to be ready for the commercial market''. I guess the first thing to discuss is what is meant by "commercial" in this context. Some CD-ROM vendors have put the word "commercial" in their name, only to have the technical people think their product is good only for use by banks and insurance companies. Other people look at their product with disdain and say that ``Linux is not commercial quality'', because it is missing some feature they need, or they feel it is unstable (usually without ever trying it even one time). To me, the word ``commercial'' has lost as much meaning in the marketplace as some of the other buzzwords: · ``Open'' vs ``Proprietary'' (People are now saying UNIX is ``Proprietary'') · ``Workstation'' vs ``PC'' (What is a workstation, anyway?) In the old days of computing the commercial market was banks, insurance companies and business-oriented facilities where the use of COBOL or RPG was the mainstream. The technical market was scientific, engineering and manufacturing where FORTRAN and assembly language was used. Somewhere along the way the term ``commercial'' seems to have gotten twisted around to mean ``ready for the mass market'', versus ``ready for hackers''. For the purpose of this article I will take the second meaning, and address whether I think Linux is ready for commercial purposes rather than the hobbyist and hacker market, and ready for the mass market rather than limited markets. For those of you who hate reading long articles, or who are short on time, let me give you my conclusion right now. Then you can go out and drink beer or other fun activities: ``Yes, Linux is ready for the commercial market...in some cases''. In order for an operating system to be ready for the mass market it must have several attributes: · have lots of applications · be relatively easy to install · have lots of applications · be relatively easy to maintain · have lots of applications · be relatively easy to use · have lots of applications · not crash (much) · have lots of applications · be economical · have lots of applications But you can eliminate all of these considerations in today's mass market if only one thing is true: You have lots of applications. after all, there would not be 170,000,000 DOS systems in the world if any of the others had to be true. I almost added that is has to be economical, but history has actually proven me wrong on that. If people added up the total cost of ownership, then Apple would certainly have won over the PC. But people ignore the human costs of someone else (or even themselves) beating their head against the wall trying to get something to work, or the system crashing repeatedly, or the fact that the one keystroke they can hit the easiest (through practice) is In the old days people were content to spend several hundreds of dol­ lars on a simple ASCII text editor, or deal with a simple spreadsheet. And it took an act of mangement to get them, with lots of Purchase Orders. Today, they want multi-media integrated with their operating system, and have all the applications available that their neighbor (or boss, or compatriot) has available on their system. And they want to get these applications easily, certainly no harder than to call up on the phone to order them through a catalog, or go down to their cor­ ner store to get them. Now what causes this plethora of applications for an operating system? Ease of programming? Good software development tools? Features inside the operating system? Stability of the interfaces over time? The answer is ``none of these''. While all these attributes may help convince an application developer to port, the one overriding issue is volume of the operating system platform. Again, if MSDOS were compared to MacOS, or even to UNIX and volume were not taken into account, we know which two operating systems would have the most applications, and they would not be from Microsoft. While it is true that several Linux vendors are working on getting these applications for the mass market (read this " your mother and father"), the number of applications that run on Microsoft platforms have been estimated as high as 35,000. SunOS has an estimated 10,000 applications, with other `commercial UNIX'' systems (including Solaris 2.x) much lower in number. It will take the Linux vendors a long time to get the number of applications necessary to hit the really large mass market, particularly if they did not depend on iBCS2 and DOS/Windows compatibility (which could supply a fair number of current applications), but depended on ``native'' Linux applications. So applications are king (and queen) for the mass market, and installed base (volume) or the promise of explosive growth (volume) is the key to these. But is the mass market the only ``commercial'' market? The answer is ``no''. The mass market is a subset (albeit very large one) of the commercial market. So let's look at what the rest of the commercial market needs. We will look at this by segmenting the market into: · turnkey systems · large end-user customers · specialized markets 5.1. Turnkey systems When I speak of turnkey systems I typically mean a computer system that has one specific (or not so specific) application that runs on it. Examples of turnkey systems are point-of-sale terminals, reservation systems, CAD systems, etc. But in a larger sense, other applications such as Web servers, nameservers (such as BIND), etc. could also be considered ``turnkey'', since they have only a few necessary programs that have to run on the system. Usually turnkey systems are ones that an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) or Value Added Reseller (VAR) will chose a hardware system, an operating system, port an application to it, then duplicate that system 500 to 1000 times without change to the basic application. These ISVs and VARs will try to chose the lowest cost solution to fit their customer's needs. Linux is perfect for these types of applications. The operating system is stable enough for the developer to port their application and test the application fully. Once it is fully tested and stable, the entire package is ``frozen'' and duplicated any number of times for the end customer. Since the operating system may be freely copied, and it runs on inexpensive hardware, their variable costs are minimal. Even a developer who is not familiar with the Linux system (so they need help getting it running on a platform) will quickly pay back the porting and system programmer costs they accrue by not paying $200-$500. per license for the operating system. Plus they have all the source code for the entire system, in case they run into trouble later on. You can buy a lot of Linux support for $200-$500K. As I said before, I include Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as part of this ``turnkey'' environment, for both external internet and internal internet. Why overload your expensive, high-powered, highly complex general-purpose server to do Web serving when a smaller, simpler box can offload it? Why not run your NIS slaves on a Linux box? Or perhaps your BIND server? In the early days of Digital UNIX (known then as DEC OSF/1) we did not have very many applications. In fact we had none. The marketing staff came to me with sad faces asking if it was possible to sell an operating system that had no applications. I invented a term called ``Turbocharging'', which allowed a Digital UNIX system using the speed and power of the Alpha processor (as well as the throughput of our networking devices) to offload NIS, NFS, BIND and other services from people's overloaded, slower SPARC machines. We also showed people how they could use the rsh(1) command to allow the Alpha to do a portion of their very CPU intensive processing while delivering the result back to the SPARCs on their desk. This allowed the SPARCs to work more on applications and less on the other ``system administration'' tasks that they were performing. We sold lots of Digital UNIX systems based solely on executing those tasks. Today, of course, Digital UNIX has a lot more applications, and particularly very large memory databases that are extremely fast. But the same principle applies. The database engine runs on the Alpha system, supplying data to the slower SPARC engines as a ``Turbocharger''. I could see Linux systems headed in the same direction, following the same path. 5.2. Large end-user customers Very large customers often have their own home-grown applications which they need to deploy across a wide network of people. Or they can have management dictate a certain suite of applications, which then can be ported to Linux. Since these customers are so large, their operating system costs are huge, and utilizing the savings using the Linux operating system they may completely cover the expenses of porting their software. Or these very large customers may ``influence'' their layered product providers to port to the Linux platform. Finally, they may even change some of their computing habits (to use existing programs) if the cost savings are enough to warrant it. Companies like Caldera are creating a suite of applications and approaching these very large customers to show them the operating system savings that they can achieve if they switch to Linux. While it is true that every application the customer could ever conceive of running may not run on Linux, by using the native applications, the iBCS2 applications, the DOSEMU applications, and applications that run under WABI, a nice suite of applications could be built to solve their needs. 5.3. Specialized markets Finally there are what I call ``specialized markets''. Markets that might buy Linux simply because it is Linux, and not because of the application suites that it provides. In the education field there are three main markets: · administrative · ``campus computing'' · computer science education The administrative part is the ``business'' aspect of the market. They are looking for easy-to-use systems that can also handle complex administrative tasks that might cover a community the size of a small city. The ``campus computing'' is the supply of computing power and service for majors of all types, web services and research into non-computer science (for example, molecular modeling) research. Finally there is computer science education, both on the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as research into computer science. While the administrative sub-market typically relies more on shrink- wrapped applications, the other two rely on them to a lesser extent (with the computer science education market relying the least). The other two markets can utilize a lot more of the freeware and shareware applications that are already ported to Linux. This gives them a very low-cost (from a software perspective) platform while allowing them to see and (often) modify the source code for the applications they use. More importantly, in the computer science research area, the results of the research can be freely distributed to others working in the field, or even published as source code to illustrate the results. This can not be done with ``commercial'' operating systems. Some universities are utilizing Linux more and more to run their campus. From a ``commercial'' standpoint, their needs are the same as many large businesses. Students graduating from college will know about Linux, and bring the word to their future employers. Finally, there is the computer hobbyist and software developer market. I relate this market to the amateur radio market. In the amateur radio market the radio is often used to simply talk to other people, but at the same time the users investigate new ways of using radio, and improving it. Many electrical engineers started out as amateur radio users. So it can be with Linux, since for the first time both the prices of the hardware and the prices of the operating system source code are within the reach of mortal people. In conclusion, I feel that Linux does have the items needed for several types of ``commercial'' uses: · stability and quality · low variable costs for turnkey applications · explosive growth in volume to attract ISVs What Linux really needs is for the ``commercial'' community to understand what is going on, and to embrace it where it will be useful. This will increase the volume numbers even more, which will attract more applications. Along these lines I would like to ``advertise'' a joint effort of USENIX and Linux International to happen in January of 1997 in Anaheim, California of the United States. There will be a joint USENIX/Linux development conference, and while a certain part of the Linux conference will be oriented towards the development of the Linux operating system, the bulk of the conference will be oriented towards application developers and marketing people, to better understand the Linux operating system and how to sell their applications and services into the Linux market. We hope to show ISVs, VARs, resellers and distributors how they can make money by selling their applications and services on top of the Linux operating system. To join in this effort, please view http://www.usenix.org/linux.html and encourage your VARs, ISVs and resellers (or even yourself!!) to attend. We call the conference "USELINUX", and we hope that we can prove to people at that event that it is time to just USE LINUX. 5.4. Biography Jon ``maddog'' Hall is a Senior Leader in the Digital Equipment Corporation UNIX group. He has been in the computer industry for twenty-five years, UNIX for sixteen years and has guided the emergence of six operating systems, including Alpha Linux. He has an MS in Computer Science. 6. Databases 6.1. Just Logic/SQL Description: Relational Database Management System Distribution Media: 3 1/2" diskettes. Licensing Policy: Unlimited runtime included. OS Provisions: N/A Documentation: Printed manual, examples. Product Support: EMail, fax or phone. Extra Features and Add-Ons: · client-server option: lets run applications on several computers running Windows or Linux, that access a central database on a Linux system. · web-enabling option: passthrough between an HTTP Web server and a Just Logic/SQL database. No C or Perl required. SQL commands are embedded directly within HTML files. Compatible with Netscape, Apache, NCSA and all other CGI-compliant HTTP servers. Available Since: 1993. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: US$149-$395. Vendor: Just Logic Technologies PO Box 63050, 40 Commerce St. Nun's Island, Montreal, H3E 1V6 Canada Phone: (514) 761-6887 Fax: (514) 642-6480 EMail: sales@justlogic.com Url: http://www.justlogic.com Contact: Luc Vallieres Last modified: November 24, 1996. 6.2. Raima Database Manager++ Description: Low-level database engine with C API and C++ class library, for embedding in applications. This database is used in thousands of leading commercial applications. Distribution Media: Download from Raima Corporation. Licensing Policy: Pay for development license, distribute runtime copies freely. OS Provisions: N/A Documentation: Extensive documentation available from Raima Corporation, dealing with all aspects of database, C API and C++ class library. Product Support: Available from Raima Corporation on annual basis, training available. Extra Features and Add-Ons: C++ class library encapsulates database navigation and object storage and retrieval into C++ classes, adding an object- oriented interface. Source code included. Supports multiple database models, including relational, network model, and combined. Available Since: 1984 originally called db_VISTA. Countries with Distribution: Germany, England, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Estonia, Argentina, Columbia, Singapore, Malaysia, U.S., Australia, Finland, Taiwan. Price Range: Depends on machine class; lowest is US$3,995 without system utilities; US$6,195 with system utilities. Vendor: Raima Corporation 1605 NW Sammamish Rd., suite 200 Issaquah, WA 98027 U.S.A. Phone: 800 327 2462, +1 206 557 0200 Fax: +1 206 557 5200 EMail: sales@raima.com Url: http://www.raima.com Contact: Larry Stefonic Last modified: January 22, 1997. 6.3. SOLID Server Description: SOLID Server is a database engine for new applications and products. It is extremely easy to set up, and has a small footprint. SOLID Server is standards-compliant and full of power. It is perfectly suited for distributed use in countless copies. Its maintenance is care-free, requiring minimal or no administrator attention. Distribution Media: Diskettes, WWW and FTP. Licensing Policy: Copy-protected. OS Provisions: At least 2 MB RAM, recommended are 8 MB; harddisk about 3-4 MB. Documentation: English manuals and online help. WWW. Product Support: Available. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: 1994. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: SOLID Desktop US$99, SOLID Workgroup US$199/seat. Vendor: Solid Information Technology Ltd Huovitie 3 FIN-00400 Helsinki Finland Phone: +358-9-477 4730 Fax: +358-0-577 242 EMail: info@solidtech.com Url: http://www.solidtech.com Last modified: October 11, 1996. 6.4. Yard SQL Description: The YARD company offers 4 SQL products as follows: · YARD-SQL -- Relational SQL client/server database with compliance to X/Open XPG4 and ANSI SQL 92 including network support for accessing remote databases · YARD-ESQLC -- Embedded SQL for C · YARD-ODBC -- ODBC interface for MS Windows clients · YARD-X -- Motif client for database access (No development tool) Distribution Media: Floppy disk and streamer tapes. Licensing Policy: License number and activation key for each product and installation with user dependent licenses. A Private Edition (limited to 1 user and 5 MB database) for non commercial private use and for evaluation is available at ftp://ftp.yard.de. OS Provisions: Linux 1.2.13 and all following ELF versions; Motif 1.2.3; RAM usage: 1 MB (minimum) for Shared Memory, 500 KB per User; disk usage: YARD-SQL 10 MB, YARD-ESQLC 1 MB, YARD-ODBC 1.5 MB, YARD- NET 1 MB, YARD-X 5 MB. Documentation: Printed 600 pages reference and users guide in German. English documentation is available only as PostScript file. Product Support: Without maintenance agreement: Release Update: 35% of regular price Version Update: 65% of regular price With maintenance agreement: Release Update: free Version Update: 30% of regular price Maintenance agreement: 25% of turnover, DM 1200 minimum Extra Features and Add-Ons: All products also available for other widely distributed Unix systems (e.g. SCO UNIX, SPARC Solaris, IBM, HP, SGI). Available Since: January, 1994. Countries with Distribution: Current worldwide distribution through Distributor Ordix Software , Paderborn, Germany. Price Range: Prices specified are for the Linux platform YARD-SQL DM 690,00 (1 user), DM 170,00 any additional user YARD-ESQLC DM 490,00 (1 user), DM 90,00 any additional user YARD-ODBC DM 390,00 (1 PC) YARD-X DM 490,00 (1 user), DM 190,00 any additional user For technical matters contact: YARD Software GmbH Wikingerstr. 18 D-51107 Köln Germany Fax: +49 (0)221/98664-99 EMail: yard@yard.de Url: http://www.yard.de FTP: ftp://ftp.yard.de Contact: Thomas Schonhoven For sales matters contact: ORDIX Software AG Westernmauer 12 D-33098 Paderborn Germany Fax: +49 (0)5251/1063-99 EMail: info@ordix.de Last modified: January 17, 1997. 7. Data Visualisation, CAD CAD tools, renderers, OCR software, etc. 7.1. IDL Description: IDL is the pioneering software for data analysis, visualization, and application development. IDL's features include flexible I/O, 2D plotting, 3D graphics, volume rendering, image processing, mathematics, statistics, a cross-platform GUI toolkit, plus a high-level, array-oriented programming language. Use IDL for visual data analysis, rapid prototyping, or application development. IDL programs are portable across Linux, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Mac, PowerMac, UNIX and VMS. Distribution Media: CD-ROM and anonymous FTP. Licensing Policy: Free demo CD-ROM available or download via ftp. OS Provisions: IDL supports linux kernel version 1.2.8 dynamically linked using Slackware 2.3. Statically linked version also included for use with Linux versions less than 1.2.8. 16 MB RAM minimum recommended. 50 MB disk space. Documentation: 1600+ pages of documentation on paper and hypertext online help. Product Support: Customer support service, maintenance/update service, training and consulting are available. In addition, a Usenet group is devoted to IDL. Extra Features and Add-Ons: HDF support, animation, volume slicer, high resolution mapping built-in. Available Since: September, 1995. Countries with Distribution: Ask vendor. Price Range: Contact vendor/distributor. Vendor: Research Systems, Inc. 2995 Wilderness Place Boulder, CO U.S.A. Phone: +1 (303) 786-9900 Fax: +1 (303) 786-9909 EMail: info@rsinc.com Url: http://www.rsinc.com Contact: Andrea Bevis Last modified: October 7, 1996. 7.2. Megahedron Description: A flexible and powerful 3D graphics engine controlled by a high- level interpreted language called SMPL. With it, you can learn about 3D, write your own interactive simulations, animations, and ray-tracings. You can even write your own shaders, customize procedural objects and motions, and use up to 64 computers at once for net rendering. Includes executables for Windows 95, Windows NT x86 and Alpha, SGI Irix and Linux. Distribution Media: CD-ROM, ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge. Licensing Policy: Very flexible. The owner is allowed to run as many copies as they can, on any platforms. Demo version, full documentation and sample images and scripts available on our web site. OS Provisions: Supports kernel 1.2.8 or 1.3.15. Non-ELF, a.out executable (QMAGIC). 16 MB of RAM minimum recommended. 7 MB free disk space recommended. Documentation: In HTML on CDROM. Product Support: Private news server, EMail. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Everything included on one CD-ROM. Available Since: August 1996. Countries with Distribution: World wide, direct and through dealers. Price Range: US$99 Vendor: Syndesis Corporation 235 South Main Street Jefferson, WI 53549 U.S.A. Phone: (414) 674-5200 Fax: (414) 674-6363 EMail: syndesis@threedee.com Url: http://www.threedee.com Contact: John Foust Last modified: October 5, 1996. 7.3. Tecplot 7.0 Description: Tecplot is a plotting program for visualizing and analyzing engineering and scientific data. Tecplot supports XY, 2D, 3D- surface, and 3D volumetric plotting. With Tecplot you don't have to write a program, just input your data and start visualizing immediately. For more information, see the Amtec Engineering home page. Distribution Media: Anonymous FTP, CD-ROM. Additional media types for extra charge. Licensing Policy: Either personal licenses (node locked) or network licenses. Evaluation copies available on CD-ROM or by anonymous FTP. OS Provisions: 12 MB minimum, Linux 2.0 or better, currently requires Motif 2.0 libraries on user system. 32MB ram is recommended. Documentation: Printed User's and Reference Manuals, full online help. English. Product Support: Update and technical support included with license for first three months. Extra charge (ask for EUSS) after that. Training courses available. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: V7 since September 1996, V6 since August 1993. Countries with Distribution: Many, see Amtec home page. Price Range: US$1795 for personal license, US$2395 for single-user network license, US$1795 for each additional user. All prices the U.S.A. and Canada only. Vendor: Amtec Engineering, Inc PO Box 3633 Bellevue, WA 98009-3633 U.S.A. Phone: 206-827-3304 (800-676-7568 in US/Canada Fax: 206-827-3989 EMail: tecplot@amtec.com Url: http://www.amtec.com Last modified: October 8, 1996. 7.4. XVScan Description: Image scanning and manipulation software for HP ScanJet scanners. Distribution Media: FTP or EMail preferred. 4mm DDS2 DAT tape or floppies (additional US$15 in the U.S.A., US$25 international). Licensing Policy: XVScan is based on XV and is not available in demo version due to licensing restrictions. Distributed with full source code. OS Provisions: Linux, tested with 1.2.x and 2.0.x, requires a recent generic SCSI driver support to be built in (no earlier than 1.1.79). Motif is not required. Any XFree version (X11R5, X11R6). Documentation: Online, WWW, English. Product Support: Updates free for first year. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Also available for HP-UX, BSD/OS 2.2 and 3.0 and FreeBSD. Available Since: May, 1995. Countries with Distribution: Worldwide. Price Range: US$50 for FTP or EMail shipping. Additional US$15 for media in the United States, US$25, internationally. Mastercard, Visa and Discover Credit Cards accepted. Vendor: tummy.com, ltd. #807 300 S 16th Street Omaha, NE 68102 U.S.A. Phone: (402) 344-4426 Fax: (402) 341-7119 EMail: xvscan@tummy.com Url: http://www.tummy.com/xvscan Contact: Sean Reifschneider or Evelyn Mitchell Last modified: October 5, 1996. 8. Development tools Compilers, development environments and so on. 8.1. Amzi! Prolog & Logic Server Description: Full-featured, Edinburgh-standard (no data typing) system for embedding Prolog rule-based modules in C/C++ and other languages. Includes: compiler, listener, debugger, linker, EXE generator, and call-in/call-out Logic Server API. Distribution Media: 3.5" diskettes. Licensing Policy: The Professional Edition includes an unlimited, royalty-free license. The Personal Edition is limited to distributing applications for non-commercial use only. OS Provisions: About 250KB RAM for typical small application, 3-4MB disk. Documentation: Printed 250pp manual. Various technotes on disk. Product Support: Subscription Plus service provides automatic updates for a full year, $150. Custom development services available. Linux Support: No Linux system included. For Amzi! software, free tech support for registered users by phone, fax and EMail. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: November 3, 1995. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: Personal, $98. Professional, $298. Vendor: Amzi! inc. 40 Samuel Prescott Drive Stow, MA 01775 U.S.A. Phone: +1 508 897 7332 Fax: +1 508 897 2784 EMail: info@amzi.com Url: http://www.amzi.com Contact: Mary Kroening Last modified: October 30, 1996. 8.2. Basmark QuickBASIC Description: The Basmark QuickBASIC Compiler is a multi-user IBM-PC BASICA, MBASIC and Microsoft QuickBASIC Compiler designed to provide performance and consistency across a variety of machines (e.g. i386 and i486, Pentium, SPARC, RS/6000, HP PA-Risc) under Unix, AIX, SunOS, Linux, HP-UX, Xenix. Distribution Media: 3.5" diskette Licensing Policy: Per machine, no run-time restrictions. OS Provisions: GNU GAS and LD must be installed. Documentation: 400+ page manual, release and installation notes. Product Support: Updates available for US$39 less shipping. Maintenance contracts available. Extra Features and Add-Ons: C-ISAM (Informix Inc.) Interface in C source code form. Cost US$35. Available Since: December 1993. Countries with Distribution: To purchase from manufacturer directly. Price Range: US$195 (less shipping) Vendor: Basmark Corporation P.O. Box 40450 Cleveland, OH 44140 U.S.A. Phone: +1 (216) 871-8855 Fax: +1 (216) 871-9011 EMail: jgo@basmark.com (for orders) Url: http://www.XBasic.com Contact: Joseph O'Toole (for orders) Last modified: October 5, 1996. 8.3. Dynace Description: Dynace (pronounced like ``dynasty'' without the ``t'') is a preprocessor, include files and a library which extends the C language with advanced object oriented capabilities, automatic garbage collection and multiple threads. Dynace is designed to solve many of the problems associated with C++ while being easier to learn and containing more flexable object oriented facilities. Dynace is able to add facilities previously only available in languages such as Smalltalk and CLOS without all the overhead normally associated with those environments. Distribution Media: Full C source at http://www.edge.net/algorithms Licensing Policy: One license per programmer; Applications are royalty free. Information and demo on http://www.edge.net/algorithms. OS Provisions: Any Linux, any Unix, any Windows and DOS. Documentation: 310 pages printed. Product Support: Dynace-support@edge.net Extra Features and Add-Ons: Complete Windows development system. Available Since: December 1993. Countries with Distribution: N/A Price Range: US$599. Vendor: Algorithms Corporation 3020 Liberty Hills Drive Franklin, TN 37067 U.S.A. Phone: +1 (800) 566-8991 or +1 (615) 791-1636 Fax: +1 (516) 791-7736 EMail: blake@edge.net Url: http://www.edge.net/algorithms Contact: Blake McBride Last modified: October 5, 1996. 8.4. Finesse Description: OSF/Motif GUI for shell scripts. Distribution Media: Free full featured developer version available via FTP. Licensing Policy: Finesse is a fully commercial product for other Unixes where nodelocked licenses are possible. The Linux version is freely available via FTP. Floppy medium is DM 90. OS Provisions: ELF Libraries. X11R6. No Motif required. Documentation: PostScript File. Product Support: No support for free version. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Not appropriate. Available Since: Linux version since May 1995. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: Free demo. Commercial version with support on request. Vendor: science + computing GmbH Hagellocher Weg 71 D-72070 Tübingen Germany Phone: +49 (0) 7071/9457-0 Fax: +49 (0) 7071/9457-27 EMail: info@science-computing.uni-tuebingen.de Url: http://www.science-computing.uni-tuebingen.de Contact: Olaf Flebbe Last modified: October 9, 1996. 8.5. Insure++ Description: Runtime Error Detection Tool. Distribution Media: CD-ROM, FTP, tapes. Licensing Policy: Machine licenses or floating network license. OS Provisions: SunOS, HP, IBM AIX, SGI, SCO, Linux. Documentation: v3.0.1. Product Support: N/A Extra Features and Add-Ons: TCA (coverage analysis), Inuse (memory monitor). Available Since: 1993. Countries with Distribution: Japan, Korea, Germany, UK, France, Australia, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia Price Range: Starts at US$1995. Vendor: ParaSoft Corporation 2031 S. Myrtle Ave. Monrovia, CA 91016 U.S.A. Phone: (818) 305-0041 Fax: (818) 305-9048 EMail: info@parasoft.com Url: http://www.parasoft.com Contact: Joe Valdez Last modified: October 22, 1996. 8.6. INTERACTER Description: INTERACTER is a portable user-interface and graphics subroutine library for Fortran software developers. INTERACTER-based programs are portable to a wide range of Fortran compilers running on Unix, VMS, Windows, DOS and OS/2. The Linux version supports f2c and g77 (a.out and ELF) and Absoft f77 (ELF). Functions include menus, text windows, forms, graphics primitives, presentation graphics, hardcopy (many formats) and operating system interface. Distribution Media: 3.5" tar diskettes or 4mm DAT. Licensing Policy: INTERACTER-based programs can be distributed royalty free. Linux demo program available at http://www.demon.co.uk/issltd. OS Provisions: Linux version supports X Windows (via Xlib), graphics terminals or Linux console (colour text-mode). Requires g77, f2c or Absoft f77. Documentation: Two-volume English language printed manual. Product Support: Free lifetime technical support. New releases every six months. Chargeable software updates. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Optional INTERACTER Toolkit provides form designer, graphics file viewer, online help, hardcopy post-processor and set-up file editor. Available Since: October, 1995. Countries with Distribution: Distributors in North America, Europe and Australia. Price Range: Linux version: US$675 (UK £450). Vendor: Interactive Software Services Ltd. Westwood House Littleton Drive Huntington Staffs WS12 4TS United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 1543 503611 Fax: +44 (0) 1543 574566 EMail: support@issltd.demon.co.uk Url: http://www.demon.co.uk/issltd Last modified: October 8, 1996. 8.7. Metacard Description: MetaCard is a GUI development and multimedia authoring tool compatible with Apple Corporation's HyperCard. Anyone can use MetaCard to build GUI applications and hypermedia documents using a powerful, direct manipulation editor and an easy-to- learn scripting language. MetaCard goes beyond HyperCard by including support for color controls and images, vector graphics, scrollbars, and dialog boxes. MetaCard's scripting language has support for arrays, custom (user defined) object properties, and is based on high- perforance "virtual compiler" technology. Stacks developed with MetaCard are portable among all popular Unix platforms and Windows 95/NT and can be distributed with without licensing fees or royalties. Distribution Media: Anonymous FTP and 3.5" diskettes. Licensing Policy: MetaCard can be licensed to a single, named individual, but can be used on any machine or combination of machines by that user. Multiple user packages are also available. The save-disabled distribution is available via anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard and ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/MetaCard. OS Provisions: The Linux engine is build on a 1.2.13 ELF system. Minumum 8 MB RAM for runtime, 16MB RAM for development. Minimum 640x480x8 screen resolution for runtime, 800x600x8 for development. Development system requires about 5MB disk space. GUI is Motif- compliant, but does not require Motif libraries. Documentation: Complete online documentation is supplied. Printed documentation is an extra-cost option. Product Support: Free EMail technical support, phone support available at extra cost. Extra Features and Add-Ons: A library version of MetaCard that can be linked directly to C programs (Embedded MetaCard) is available at extra cost. Available Since: June 1992. Countries with Distribution: Direct sales world wide. Price Range: US$995 for single-user all-platform development license. Vendor: MetaCard Corporation 4710 Shoup pl. Boulder, CO 80303 U.S.A. Phone: +1 (303) 447-3936 Fax: +1 (303) 499-9855 EMail: info@metacard.com Url: http://www.metacard.com Last modified: October 5, 1996. 8.8. Webthreads Description: Webthreads is a very lightweight browser and server independent CGI script package, developed under Linux, that adds state and an extremely fast HTML scripting extension called "iHTML" that enables web designers to build sites that react one on one with visitors. In addition, the CGI interface has been expanded to enable parameter passing on a per visitor basis between scripts running on different pages. Distribution Media: WWW Licensing Policy: 30 Day fully functional eval available from http://www.webthreads.com OS Provisions: Any version of Linux on x86, a.out and ELF. Documentation: Web site and online provided with the package. Product Support: EMail support. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Msql interface. Registration site management addition. Available Since: June, 1996. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: US$895 per license. Vendor: Webthreads, L.L.C. 1919 Gallows Road, 10th floor, Vienna, VA 22182 U.S.A. Phone: 703-848-9027 Fax: 703-848-2444 EMail: info@webthreads.com Url: http://www.webthreads.com Contact: Gavin Suttcliffe Last modified: November 6, 1996. 8.9. SEDIT, S/REXX Description: SEDIT is a powerful UNIX (tm) text editor patterned after IBM's XEDIT editor. It operates with a GUI under X windows or in character mode from a tty device. S/REXX is a full UNIX implementation of IBM's SAA procedural language except that the numeric digit specification is limited to 15 digits. S/REXX functions as an imbedded macro langauge for SEDIT as well as providing a powerful modern programming language alternative to shell scripting languages. SEDIT and S/REXX may be purchased in a bundle or individually. See http://www.sedit.com for more information including introductory pricing for Linux, etc. For additional information, please contact one of the local distributors listed on the web site or mail us at sedit@dialup.FranceNet.fr Distribution Media: The Linux version is available for ftp download or on diskettes. Licensing Policy: SEDIT and S/REXX are licensed products. See the above WWW site for details. For demo purposes, a short term license key will be provided on request to anyone who obtains the product via ftp. OS Provisions: We believe these products will work with any recent stable Linux kernel since 1.1.49. Motif is fully bound with SEDIT and SEDIT is distributed with XFree86 3.1 shared libraries for use if your system is not at that level. Documentation: Documentation is furnished in PostScript form, in extensive online help files, and in optional printed manuals. Product Support: Technical support is available for all licensed users. For maintenance, see the above URLs. Extra Features and Add-Ons: A REXX interactive graphical debugger is available as an optional feature as are printed manuals, physical media, and on going maintenance. See the above URLs. Available Since: The original Linux version has been available since 3rd quarter 1995. Countries with Distribution: SEDIT and S/REXX are available worldwide. The URLs should be consulted for current information. Price Range: Pricing information should be requested from the local distributor responsible for your country. An economical 2 user license is available for Linux without media or printed documentation with other options for more users, S/REXX, hardcopy manuals, etc. Vendor: Benaroya 31 Rue de Constantinople F-75008 Paris France Phone: +33 1 47 22 22 13 Fax: +33 1 47 22 06 17 EMail: sedit@dialup.FranceNet.fr Url: http://www.sedit.com Contact: Robert Benaroya Last modified: September 28, 1996. 8.10. VirtuFlex 1.1 Description: VirtuFlex 1.1 is a versatile tool for building dynamic Internet and Intranet applications. VirtuFlex provides the power to transform web sites into live applications by integrating databases, fax, EMail and pagers with the web. The simple VirtuFlex macro language saves hundreds of hours of CGI programming by providing sophisticated functionality that can be added to web sites by any HTML developer. Distribution Media: Licensing Policy: VirtuFLex is licensed on a per domain basis. A free evaluation copy is available on web site. OS Provisions: Linux ELF binary format (1.2.x kernels or higher). VirtuFlex runs on standard Unix workstations with 8 MB of RAM minimum, 16 MB recommended. Documentation: Available for download from our web site, English. Product Support: N/A Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: N/A Countries with Distribution: N/A Price Range: US$995, educational discounts available. Vendor: VirtuFlex Software Corp. 930 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. Phone: 1 617 497 8006 Fax: 1 617 492 0486 EMail: comments@virtuflex.com Url: http://www.virtuflex.com Contact: Dan Housman Last modified: January 29, 1997. 8.11. XBasic Description: XBasic is a comprehensive visual program development environment that integrates a powerful editor, advanced 32/64-bit BASIC compiler, debugger, GuiDesigner and GraphicsDesigner. XBasic is written entirely in XBasic and is available for Linux/Intel, Windows 95, Windows NT and SCO Unix. Distribution Media: Either 3.5" diskettes or via Internet/FTP. Licensing Policy: Each copy is licensed on a per machine basis. OS Provisions: Linux (ELF 1.2.13 or higher). Documentation: 300+ page (8.5 inches by 11 inches) manual. Product Support: US$3 per minute, 15 minute minimum. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Enterprise (socketized internet-TCP/IP) edition is available. Available Since: January 1996. Countries with Distribution: Not specified. Price Range: US$795-$955 Vendor: Basmark Corporation P.O. Box 40450 Cleveland, OH 44140 U.S.A. Phone: 216-871-8855 Fax: 216-871-9011 EMail: jgo@basmark.com Url: http://www.basmark.com Contact: Joseph G. O'Toole Last modified: October 6, 1996. 9. Financial Software All about financial tools. 9.1. BB Stock Pro and BB Stock Tool Description: BB Stock Pro and BB Stock Tool are powerful stock tracker and analysis tools. Features include charting, technical analysis, portfolio management, customized alert, automatic stock split detection, personalized watch list, auto run and profit test. Distribution Media: WWW or FTP download. Licensing Policy: Per machine license. Free evaluation version is available at http://www.falkor.com OS Provisions: Linux 1.2, gcc 2.6.3 or later. Documentation: Online help and PostScript document. Product Support: Free technical support. Frequently asked questions and answers available at WWW. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: Sun SPARC version available since December 1993. Linux version available since April 1995. Countries with Distribution: USA, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan. Price Range: Linux version is US$99. Vendor: Falkor Technologies P.O.Box 14201 Fremont, CA 94539 U.S.A. Phone: +1 (510) 505-0700 Fax: None EMail: skyline@falkor.com Url: http://www.falkor.com Contact: Henry Chen Last modified: October 9, 1996. 9.2. TimeClock v1.07 Description: Employee time and attendance package for small to medium sized businesses. Includes custom report module, interface to barcode/magnetic card readers (Employee ID), and data export module. Distribution Media: 3 1/2 inch and 5 1/4 inch diskettes. Licensing Policy: One CPU, unlimited users. OS Provisions: N/A Documentation: Printed manual and online HTML manual included with software. Product Support: Free, usually 20 minute response time. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Barcode/magnetic card interface. Available Since: 1992 XENIX and MS-DOS version, 1994 AIX version, October 1996 Linux version. Countries with Distribution: U.S.A. Price Range: US$699 Vendor: Quality Software Solutions, Inc. 1322 Dodds Ave. Chattanooga, TN 37404 U.S.A. Phone: 423-821-5757 Fax: 423-629-0744 EMail: dbryson@tclock.com Url: http://www.tclock.com Contact: Donald Bryson Last modified: October 11, 1996. 10. Mathematics 10.1. Maple V Description: Maple V Release 3 is a powerful general purpose computer algebra system. Maple V is a system for solving mathematical problems symbolically (instead of using paper and pencil and a lot of time) and numerically. Maple V's graphics (various types of 2D, 3D, animation) visualizes the solutions. Maple V has also a programming language (Pascal like) which allows to extend the library of 2500+ functions. Distribution Media: 3.5" disks. Licensing Policy: License for unlimited use in time of the bought version, floating license with user based pricing. OS Provisions: Linux kernel 1.0; XFree86 or Motif possible but not necessary; release number 2100: at least 8 MByte RAM suggested. Documentation: 3 books ("First Leaves: A Tutorial Introduction" 253 pgs., "Language Reference Manual", 267 pgs. and "The Maple Handbook" 497 pgs.), Installation Manual. Manual pages of all functions and commands, help browser, keyword search. Documentation and help in English, some books in various languages exist. Product Support: Updates/maintenance depending on license, please call the distributor or WMSI. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Share library via EMail and FTP. Free mailing list available (maple_group@daisy.waterloo.edu). Available Since: September, 1994. Countries with Distribution: US/Canada, Europe, Asia Price Range: N/A Vendor: Waterloo Maple Software 450 Phillip Street Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 5J2 Phone: +1 (519) 747-2373 Fax: +1 (519) 747-5284 EMail: info@maplesoft.com Vendor in Germany: Scientific Computers GmbH Franzstr. 106 D-52064 Aachen Germany Phone: +49 (0)241/47075 Fax: +49 (0)241/44983 EMail: maple@scientific.de Contact: Andreas Himmeldorf Last modified: October 30, 1996. 10.2. MATCOM and MATCOM MATH LIBRARY Description: MATLAB is a Matlab to C++ compiler and C++ MATRIX MATH LIBRARY. MATCOM compiles Matlab source files (M-Files) to C++ source code. The resulting code is linked with the supplied C++ Matrix class library to create standalone executables or MEX files. The C++ code and library can be integrated in products, royalty free, saving the need to translate the algorithm prototype. Compiled code runs significantly faster than the original interpreted source. Matrices of doubles, floats, ints and chars are supported, providing lower memory usage for many applications, especially Signal and Image Processing. MS Windows and many Unix platform are supported with a variety of C++ compilers. Evaluation version (fully functional, 30 days limited) is available for free download from our web site. Distribution Media: WWW only. Licensing Policy: From single license to site license. Contact The MathTools for details. OS Provisions: Linux 1.2, gcc 2.6.3 or later, 8 MB RAM, 15 MB on disk. Documentation: Users manual and Library Reference in various formats (MS Word, MS Write, plain text, PostScript) Product Support: A Fast product support is given by email only. The support section in the WWW page give immediate access to a wealth of resources, technical support, answers to frequently asked questions, technical documents and more. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: May 1995. Countries with Distribution: Through our web site. Price Range: Upon request. Vendor: MathTools, Ltd. P.O.Box 855 Horsham, PA 19044-0855 U.S.A. Phone: None Fax: 1-888-MATHTOOLS, 1-215-957-1719 EMail: info@mathtools.com Url: http://www.mathtools.com Contact: Ophir Herbst Last modified: October 7, 1996. 10.3. Matlab and Simulink Description: MATLAB is a high-performance, interactive numeric computation and visualization environment that combines the advantages of hundreds of packaged advanced math and graphics functions with a high-level language. SIMULINK is a powerful, interactive software package for modeling, analyzing, and simulating dynamic nonlinear systems. Distribution Media: CD-ROM. Licensing Policy: SiteID-Locked - Contact The MathWorks for details. OS Provisions: Linux 1.2, 16 MB RAM, 20 MB disk space. Documentation: Printed documentation, online help, MATLAB Reference Guide (HTML) Product Support: The MathWorks supports a variety of Internet-based services to provide product information and services 24 hours a day. These services give immediate access to a wealth of resources, product data sheets, technical support, answers to frequently asked questions, user-contributed materials, open-forum discussions, and more. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Toolboxes: Fuzzy Logic, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Spline, Symbolic Math, Neural Network, Nonlinear Control Design, Control System, Robust Control, Mu-Analysis & Synthesis, System Identification, Optimization, Statistics, Real-Time Workshop. Blocksets: Fixed-Point Blockset, DSP Blockset. Available Since: June 1995. Countries with Distribution: Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Israel, Poland, Germany, France, Italy, Austria. Price Range: Upon request. Vendor: The MathWorks, Inc. 24 Prime Park Way Natick, MA 01760 U.S.A. Phone: +1 (508) 647-7000 x7322 Fax: +1 (508) 647-7002 EMail: efroio@mathworks.com, brian@mathworks.com Url: http://www.mathworks.com Contact: Enza Froio (Marketing), Brian Bourgault (Technical) Last modified: October 9, 1996. 11. Network Management 11.1. Venus Description: Venus is an distributed administration tool for any network built of Unix workstations from different hardware vendors. A Venus network presents itselfs to the user as a homogeneous computer system and guarantees transparent access to any network resource. It provides software tools for major cluster management tasks: configuration management, software distribution, user and filesystem administration. Distribution Media: N/A Licensing Policy: Commercial. OS Provisions: Currently build on top of the S.u.S.E distribution. Documentation: Printed doumentation, online help. Product Support: Hotline, EMail, courses ... upon request. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: 1994. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: Upon request. Special prices for educational institutions. Vendor: science + computing GmbH Hagellocher Weg 71 D-72070 Tübingen Germany Phone: +49 (0) 7071/9457-0 Fax: +49 (0) 7071/9457-27 EMail: info@science-computing.uni-tuebingen.de Url: http://www.science-computing.uni-tuebingen.de Contact: Olaf Flebbe Last modified: October 9, 1996. 12. Text Processing All kind of text processing, ASCII- and GUI-based 12.1. Edith Pro for X11 Description: Edith Pro is a powerful and easy-to-use text editing package, for editing plain text such as EMail messages, HTML, LaTeX and programming languages. It is aimed at people who want a flexible editing tool but who are not prepared to spend much time into learning and configuring their application. It includes a fast text-only web browser with access to the system manual and info. Distribution Media: Fully operational copies are available from the ZFC web pages. A licence includes EMail support, a printed manual and an encrypted authentification file. Licensing Policy: You are only allowed to download Edith from the ZFC web pages for personal use. Without a licence, Edith will regularly issue messages stressing that the copy used is not licenced. Personal use without a licence is allowed, but organizations are required to buy a licence. OS Provisions: ELF binary. 1MB is sufficient for editing normally sized text. Documentation: Online HTML help covers the printed manual completely. The printed manual contains illustrations not in the online help. Product Support: Free updates can be downloaded from the ZFC web pages. Licence holders will be notified of updates. Licence holders can contact ZFC by EMail for immediate support. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: January 1, 1997. Countries with Distribution: World wide directly from ZFC. Price Range: NLG 100 single host, NLG 500 maximum. 50% discount for educational organizations and students. Vendor: ZFC P.O. Box 15813 1001 NH Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 4 208 248 Fax: None EMail: zfc@zfc.nl Url: http://www.nl.net/~zfc/index.html Contact: Annius V. Groenink Last modified: January 5, 1997. 13. X Windows related products Alternative X Windows servers, widget sets, window managers. 13.1. BXwidgets Description: BXwidgets is a supplementary widget set to develop especially commercial Motif applications. It includes special widgets for tabulars, masks, formatted input field and the full support for a complete help system. All has Motif look and feel and is platform independent. Distribution Media: 3,5" DOS diskette. Licensing Policy: Source code licence. OS Provisions: Any kernel, X11R5 or X11R6, Motif 1.1 or Motif 1.2. Documentation: About 250 pages of documenation with examples. Several demo programs. Product Support: Support and update service is available (DM 1200 or about US$750) Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: 1992. Countries with Distribution: Germany, UK, USA. Price Range: DM 1600 (about US$1000) for a full source code licence. Vendor: BREDEX GmbH Fallersleber-Tor-Wall 23 D - 38100 Braunschweig Germany Phone: +49 / 531 / 24 33 0 - 0 Fax: +49 / 531 / 24 33 0 - 99 EMail: info@bredex.de Url: http://www.bredex.de Last modified: October 8, 1996. 13.2. BXwidgets/DB Description: BXwidgets/DB is a supplementary widget set to access relational databases. Data can be automatically queried form the database, displayed in various forms, changed and stored in the database. All applications built with BXwidgets/DB are database independent. The database access is performed by transaction- servers. Transaction-Server and database may reside on other hotsts in the network. Distribution Media: CD-ROM. Licensing Policy: Per OS License, no run-time restrictions, Evaluation-License available. OS Provisions: X11R5 and Motif1.2 must be installed. Documentation: Printed manual in English. Product Support: Support and update service is available. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Available Since: 1996. Countries with Distribution: N/A Price Range: DM 4900. Vendor: BREDEX GmbH Fallersleber-Tor-Wall 23 D - 38100 Braunschweig Germany Phone: +49 / 531 / 24 33 0 - 0 Fax: +49 / 531 / 24 33 0 - 99 EMail: info@bredex.de Url: http://www.bredex.de Last modified: October 8, 1996. 13.3. X Inside X Servers Description: Commercial grade X display Server for Linux. Complete, accelerated support for over 420 different graphics adapters including the latest from ATI, Diamond, Matrox, Number 9 and more. Easy menu driven install and setup. Browse http://www.xinside.com for the latest support information. Many popular extensions like PEX, XIE are included. Distribution Media: High density floppy diskette. Licensing Policy: Per cpu license. OS Provisions: No known problems with any Linux distribution. Requires around 5 MB hard disk. Documentation: 100 page perfect bound installation manual and user guide included with server. Product Support: Installation support included via EMail, web, phone or fax. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: 1994. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: Contact your local reseller. Vendor: X Inside Incorporated 1801 Broadway, Suite 1710 Denver, CO 80202 U.S.A. Phone: +1.303.298.7478 Fax: +1.303.298.1406 EMail: info@xinside.com Url: http://www.xinside.com Last modified: October 9, 1996. 14. Other Software Everything else that does not fit in one of the other sections by now. 14.1. DNEWS News Server Description: DNEWS is an advanced, full featured NNTP based news server. It is suitable for ISP's and Corporate Intranets. DNEWS can be used as a replacement for INN or cnews and will generally result in improved performance and much lower administration. Features include: easy installation and management, flexible expire settings, flexible access restrictions, EMail confirmation of posts, XOVER extentions implemented, streaming extentions built in, dynamic sucking feeds option, news to web gateway included. Distribution Media: Web. Licensing Policy: Commercial, DNEWS is try before you buy software and can be downloaded from our web site for free trial. OS Provisions: No special requirements Documentation: A user manual is provided as a Word 6 document, and HTML format. Online help included. Product Support: N/A Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: N/A Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: US$485 (Free registration for schools and universities). Vendor: Netwin LTD P.O Box 27574 MT Roskill Auckland New Zealand Phone: N/A Fax: +64 9 6300 689 EMail: netwin@netwinsite.com Url: http://netwinsite.com Contact: Stephen Pugmire Last modified: January 10, 1997. 14.2. Executor 2 Description: Executor 2 reads and writes Macintosh formatted media and runs many Macintosh programs. A compatibility database is available from http://www.ardi.com. Distribution Media: CD-ROM Licensing Policy: Commercial software with a time limited crippled demo available from ftp://ftp.ardi.com or http://www.ardi.com. OS Provisions: DOS 6.x, Windows 3.1.x, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.x, OS/2 Warp, Linux/X/a.out, Linux/X/ELF, Linux/SVGA/a.out, Linux/SVGA/ELF. Documentation: 30 page mini-manual in CD-ROM jewel-box case. Product Support: N/A Extra Features and Add-Ons: Each Executor 2 CD-ROM contains Executor/DOS and Executor/Linux. You can switch between them, but are allowed to only run one at a time. Available Since: N/A Countries with Distribution: N/A Price Range: Suggested Retail: US$249. Educational Institutions: US$149, Full-time Students: US$65. Vendor: ARDI Suite 4-101 1650 University Blvd., NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 U.S.A. Phone: +1 505 766 9115 Fax: +1 505 766 5153 EMail: questions@ardi.com Url: http://www.ardi.com Last modified: November 24, 1996. 14.3. Aladdin Ghostscript Description: PostScript, PDF, PCL5e (1Q97), PCL5c (2Q97), and PCL XL interpreter. Provides X Windows previewing, conversion to half a dozen raster file formats, and output to dozens of printers. Runs in all OS environments, not just Linux, and on any processor (32- or 64-bit) with a C compiler. Can drive black- and-white, RGB, and CMYK devices, both bilevel and continuous- tone. For more information, see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html. Note that Aladdin Ghostscript is an OEM product only: end-user licensing is not available (and not necessary, since the product is free for end users), nor is end-user support. Distribution Media: 1.44MB, 3.5" DOS diskettes. Licensing Policy: Normally per-CPU. License normally includes source code, upgrades, and support. OS Provisions: X11R5 or later is required for X Windows previewing. OS- specific modules are available for Unix (including Linux), VMS, MS Windows (including Windows NT), OS/2, and Macintosh. Porting to other OSs is simple: all OS dependencies are segregated in a single file of typically less than 100 lines of code. Documentation: Online documentation only, in English. Currently in plain ASCII text; texinfo and HTML versions are in preparation. Product Support: Normally included in license; by EMail, phone, and fax. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A. Each input language is priced separately, with a discount for multiple languages. Available Since: 1988 as free software, 1991 commercially. Countries with Distribution: World wide. Price Range: Negotiated for each customer. Vendor: Artifex Software Inc. 454 Las Gallinas Ave., Suite 108 San Rafael, CA 94903 U.S.A. Phone: (415)492-9861 Fax: (415)492-9862 EMail: info@arsoft.com Url: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html Last modified: October 15, 1996. 14.4. Emulus Description: Emulus is an X-Windows/Motif application which uses TCP/IP to establish a connection to an IBM mainframe host, emulating a 3270 terminal. Emulus supports mainframe graphics, including 3270 graphics datastream extension used by mainframe SAS Software. Other features include customization through dialogs, a scripting facility to record and playback host interaction, EasyPads (customized windows of buttons), and cut and paste between Emulus and other X applications. Emulus also comes with Helplus, an hypertext help viewer modeled after WinHelp. It is used to provide online help for Emulus, but can also be used to develop Help for other X applications. Distribution Media: CD-ROM only. Licensing Policy: Licensing is per CPU. OS Provisions: Linux 1.2 or higher, 8-16 MB RAM, 5 MB hard disk; Motif statically linked. Documentation: Printed book, man pages, online help, English. Product Support: Technical Support from SAS Institute. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: N/A Countries with Distribution: N/A Price Range: US$99; includes hardcopy documentation, and Technical Support for one year. Vendor: SAS Institute Inc. SAS Campus Drive Cary, NC 27513 U.S.A. Phone: (919) 677-8000 Fax: 919-677-8166 EMail: saspjh@unx.sas.com Url: http://www.sas.com Contact: Phil Herold Last modified: October 11, 1996. 14.5. PerfectBACKUP+ Description: PerfectBACKUP+ is the UNIX/LINUX world's premier Backup/Restore utility. It is the worlds fastest backup/restore for UNIX and has been since 1985. Previously sold in the U.S. as FASTBACK PLUS for UNIX, the counterpart to the DOS FASTBACK PLUS, it now sports the Character and Motif interfaces, Networking support, Compression, Industrie's best verification, Scheduling and is compatible with both TAR and CPIO. Distribution Media: Floppy diskettes (2), Internet (WWW), 4/8mm DAT and soon CD-ROM. Licensing Policy: Free evaluation copy from http://home.xl.ca/perfectBackup. Free online manual from same the same address. Price per CPU, unlimited users. OS Provisions: Kernels 1.2.x and 2.0.x, X11R6, Motif 1.2, 3MB RAM, 3MB disk. Documentation: Printed (188 pages), PostScript Online, and Online Help. English language documentation, but help by phone/EMail also avilable in Spanish. Product Support: Unlimited free EMail support and phone support. Extra Features and Add-Ons: Comes with free PC program to read Tar/CPIO diskettes onto PC. Available Since: 1996 Linux. Version 5.3 available since January 1, 1997. Countries with Distribution: U.S.A., Canada, Germay, U.K., Switzerland, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany. Price Range: UD$79 to US$499. Linux off the net (no media) is US$79 and HP/UX is US$499. Always full product. Vendor: Unisource Systems, Inc. 1409 North Cove Blvd. Longwood, FL 32750 U.S.A. Phone: +1 407 834 1973 Fax: +1 407 834 1973 EMail: sales@unisrc.com Url: http://home/xl.ca/perfectBackup Contact: Gary Heller Last modified: January 21, 1997. 14.6. PKWARE Data Compression Library for Linux Description: The library consists of a compression, an extraction, and an error checking routine. It does not create .ZIP compatible files. Distribution Media: N/A Licensing Policy: Per machine with no runtime royalties. OS Provisions: Intel x86, 36 KB RAM for compressing and 13 KB RAM for uncompressing, 1 MB on hard disk. Documentation: Printed 33 page manual and separate installation notes in English. Example code provided on disk. Product Support: N/A Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: N/A Countries with Distribution: N/A Price Range: US$450. Educational discount available. Vendor: PKWARE, Inc. 9025 N. Deerwood Drive Brown Deer, WI 53223-2480 U.S.A. Phone: 1-414-354-8699 Fax: 1-414-354-8559 EMail: info@pkware.com Url: http://www.pkware.com Contact: Bob Gorman Last modified: October 10, 1996. 15. Free Software for Commercial Hardware This section is somewhat ``exotic''. It covers free Linux software (drivers et cetera) for specialized hardware. This is no ``commercial software'', however, the software is unusable without the hardware. 15.1. Stallion Technologies Multiport Serial Boards Description: Stallion provides Linux support for its EasyIO and EasyConnection range of multiport cards. EasyIO is available with either 4 asynchronous serial ports with RJ45 connectors, or 8 asynchronous serial ports with RJ45 or DB25 connectors. EasyIO supports data rates of up to 145 Kbits/sec per port and full modem signaling. Drivers are available for most Intel- based operating systems, including Linux. EasyIO is available for the ISA bus. EasyConnection is an expandable multiport solution that provides from 8 to 64 asynchronous serial ports in 8 or 16 port increments. Both RJ45 and DB25 connectors are available. Features include full surge suppression, full modem signaling, and data rates of up to 145 Kbits/sec per port. Drivers are available for most Intel-based operating systems, including Linux. EasyConnection is available for the ISA, EISA and PCI bus. Distribution Media: Linux drivers are available from the Internet archive sites: · ftp://ftp.stallion.com · ftp://sunsite.unc.edu · ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu Licensing Policy: The Linux driver is available at no charge and is copyrighted under the GNU General Public License. Source code is provided. OS Provisions: The most current driver supports kernel versions 1.2.5 and later (including 2.0.x). The drivers are updated regularly to keep pace with kernel changes. Documentation: Hardware reference documentation provided with the boards. The Linux driver package contains a README file with driver installation and usage information. Product Support: Stallion Technologies now fully supports the Stallion board Linux drivers. Software updates are available from the Internet. Stallion also provides technical support for the hardware. Contact Stallion support for assistance. Extra Features and Add-Ons: N/A Available Since: October, 1994. Countries with Distribution: World wide distribution. Available in most countries. Price Range: Prices for the serial boards vary from country to country. Contact your nearest Stallion Technologies office for local availability and pricing. The driver package contains a file with contact information for all Stallion Technologies offices. Vendor: Stallion Technologies Pty Ltd. 2880 Research Park Drive, Suite 160 Soquel, CA 95073 U.S.A. Phone: 800 347-7979 Fax: (408) 477-0444 EMail: info@stallion.com Url: http://www.stallion.com FTP: ftp://ftp.stallion.com Last modified: October 16, 1996. 16. Value Added Resellers (VARs) This section contains some companies who sell preconfigured hardware for the purpose of running Linux. 16.1. Advanced System Lab 2342 Shade Tree Lane San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A. Phone: +1.408.923.3837 Fax: +1.408.923.4615 EMail: info@aslab.com Url: http://www.aslab.com Contact: Jeff Nguyen Last modified: August 20, 1996. 16.2. Apache Digital Corporation 777 Main Ave. Suite 211 Durango CO 81301 U.S.A. Phone: (970) 259-8153 Fax: (970) 259-8145 EMail: mgw@apache.com Url: http://www.apache.com Contact: Mark Wauchope Last modified: August 9, 1996. 16.3. BEE Baastrup EDV-Entwicklung GmbH Mallinkrodtstraße 7 D-44145 Dortmund Germany Phone: +49-231-9812060 Fax: +49-231-9812062 EMail: info@bee.de Url: http://www.bee.de Contact: Jörn Baastrup, Jürgen Stanke, Jörg Bellwinkel Last modified: October 7, 1996. 16.4. Chaos Computing, Inc. 8450 Ann Marie Tr. Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077 U.S.A. Phone: (612) 552-1920 Fax: None EMail: sales@chaoscomp.com, info@chaoscomp.com Url: http://www.chaoscomp.com Contact: Eric Rotvold Last modified: August 14, 1996. 16.5. Hard Data Ltd. 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB Canada T5X 1Y3 Phone: 01-403-456-1510 Fax: 01-403-456-1510 EMail: maurice@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca Url: Not yet. Contact: Maurice Hilarius Last modified: August 25, 1996. 16.6. Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. 1917 Wild Dunes Drive Raleigh, NC 27604 U.S.A. Phone: +1 919-231-0248 or +1 888-LINUX-HW Fax: +1 919-212-0659 EMail: info@linux-hw.com Url: http://www.linux-hw.com Contact: Kit Cosper Last modified: August 13, 1996. 16.7. Nene Information Systems 32 Glasgow street St James Northampton NN5 5BL UK Phone: +44 (0) 1604 464561 Fax: None EMail: tim@nisys.demon.co.uk Url: http://www.nisys.demon.co.uk Contact: Timothy Peters Last modified: September 11, 1996. 16.8. Pacific Internet 600 Corporate Pointe, Suite 100 Culver City, CA 90230 U.S.A. Phone: (310) 410-9700 Fax: (310) 410-9727 EMail: sales@pacnet.com Url: http://www.pacnet.com Contact: Tania Hayek, K. Kamath, Michael Boyer, Denise Schutte, Maria Lepisto, Natalie Jackson Last modified: August 9, 1996. 16.9. Sound Software Ltd. 20 Abelard Avenue Brampton ON Canada L6Y 2K8 Phone: (905) 452 0504 Fax: (905) 452 9754 EMail: sales@telly.org Url: http://www.ftn.net/telly/sound.html Contact: Evan Leibovitch Last modified: August 16, 1996. 16.10. SW Technology 1701 North Greenville Suite 1104 Richardson, TX 75081 U.S.A. Phone: 214-907-0871 Fax: 214-907-9339 EMail: sales@swt.com Url: http://www.swt.com Contact: Marvin Y. Wu Last modified: August 9, 1996.