Sterling Software celebrates over a decade with COOL:Gen

Sterling Software`s Applications Development Division celebrates eleven years of model-based development with its flagship product COOL:Gen. COOL:Gen, launched in 1987, is a model-based application development tool with 100% code generation.

Oracle applications on Windows NT gain momentum in mid market

Oracle said more than 500 companies in North America have purchased Oracle Applications for Windows NT, an integrated suite of over 45 modular business applications, since the product launch in May 1997. According to Oracle, mid-sized companies, in industries such as financial services, manufacturing and retail, have turned to Oracle Applications to obtain enterprise-quality business solutions previously only accessible to large corporations. Oracle said over 5400 customers in 79 countries use Oracle Applications on different platforms today.

DEC to speed Y2K readiness of VAX, Alpha COBOL programmes

Digital Equipment Corporation has announced that it is shipping the first Digital version of the Piercom 2000 tool, which automates much of the work needed to make customer application programmes Year 2000 ready.

SNI to sponsor 1998 Commonwealth Games

Siemens Nixdorf said it was named the official main sponsor of the XVI Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SNI is providing PCs and servers worth around R9.6 million for the occasion. A total of 6,000 athletes from seventy nations will take part in the Commonwealth Games which are set to run from 11-21 September.

SNI and Oracle form Strategic Business Unit

Siemens Nixdorf and Oracle Corporation have signed an agreement covering the joint development and marketing of future-looking, network-based information management solutions.

Walker Positions IMMPOWER Smart Enterprise Asset Management

Attachmate debuts UNIX, Digital, IBM Connectivity Suite

Attachmate, the leading provider of host access and management solutions, has announced the availability of KEA! X Suite 3.1 for Windows 95 and Windows NT. KEA! X Suite combines Attachmate`s mature PC X Server with multi-host connectivity and NFS technology.

Wired for OLAP to integrate with MS OLAP server

Arbor Software has announced direct integration between Arbor WIRED for OLAP and Microsoft`s OLAP server, code-named Plato. WIRED for OLAP evaluation software is available for download and free trial from Arbor`s Web site at http://www.arborsoft.com.

Software Futures signs Execusys as Red Brick VAR

Software Futures, a company in the Computer Configurations Holdings group, has signed Pretoria health care IT specialist Execusys as a value-added reseller of the Red Brick data warehouse database. Under the VAR agreement, Execusys will resell Red Brick into the health care market. Execusys said the company is "negotiating as many as eight sales".

Oracle automates database development

Oracle has announced Oracle Designer/2000 Release 2.1 and Oracle Developer/2000 Release 2.1 which allow developers, for the first time, to automatically generate 100% of their database applications.

Bateleur Software to offer dual remedy for Euro & Y2K

Bateleur Software has released GENART Year 2000 compliance software, an on-site re-engineering toolset developed for the extraction, analysis, remedy and documentation of Natural code.

ANS to offer new videoconferencing products

Ariel Network Solutions, value-added reseller for the VCON range of high-end desktop and small group videoconferencing systems, has brought four new products on to the local market.