Microsoft and Novell to hold hands at Professional Developers Conference
By Bob Trott and Dana Gardner
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:53 AM PT, Oct 12, 1998
Novell will display its newly cozy relationship with Microsoft this week when it demonstrates Novell Directory Services (NDS) for Windows NT and other products at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Denver.
Novell also will demonstrate enhancing domains with NDS for NT, managing Windows desktops with Novell Z.E.N.works, and integrating thin clients into networks using Microsoft Terminal Server, Citrix, and NDS, Novell officials said.
Microsoft's main thrust will be interoperability and the NT 5.0-COM+ marriage. The company also will release Microsoft Agent 2.0, which provides software services for developers to create interactive animated characters in applications or Web pages using any language.
In addition, Microsoft will announce plans to license the FalconMQ Bridge from Level 8 Systems to spur integration between Microsoft Message Queue Server and IBM's MQSeries.
As part of the agreement, Microsoft will include Level 8 FalconMQ Bridge Server with Windows NT Server.
The middleware functionality of message queuing has soared in importance recently as vendors and developers use it to guarantee delivery of objects in asynchronous environments and between disparate systems and platforms.
In addition, a number of third-party vendors will announce products this week.
Sybase will unveil Adaptive Server Anywhere for Windows CE, Version 6.0, which will support both WinCE 2.0 and the recently released Version 2.11, formerly called Jupiter, said Brian Vink, director of marketing at Sybase's mobile and embedded computing division in Waterloo, Ontario. Due in November, Sybase will ship with the development version of SQL Anywhere Studio for a price of $399. Subsequent seats will cost $119.
Rational Software will debut Rational DevelopmentDeskTop for giving Windows platform developers more automated test and change-request management, error-detection, performance profiling, and code-coverage analysis, officials from the company said. DevelopmentDeskTop, which will ship within 30 days at a price of $1,998, offers integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and support for Visual C++, Visual Basic, and Java.
Simware will announce Salvo 4.0, a three-tier application development and deployment environment that exploits COM and Microsoft Transaction Server to bridge the enterprise with extranets.
InstallShield will preview an installation toolkit for Windows CE developers.
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