Microsoft to sell software with Computer Associates
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Microsoft and Computer Associates International will expand their existing relationship by jointly marketing an integrated software package that combines products from each company's corporate computing systems. Computer Associates recently debuted its CA-Unicenter for Windows NT, which targets the enterprise market. Industry observers say the significance of the agreement is that Microsoft is leaning toward the enterprise market segment. On Wall Street, both companies' shares rose after the announced partnership. Experts say the agreement is more significant for Computer Associates, which is attempting to expand its healthy market standing in mainframe software to client/server. Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft will create an integrated product that is a combination of CA-Unicenter, Microsoft Windows NT Server and Microsoft SQL Server runtime. The deal is also a boon for Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, which the company deems important for its dominance of the desktop computing environment.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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The geographic interface puts the world on the desktop
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Novell Inc's Corsair technology is an innovative graphical interface for helping users navigate through complex networks. Corsair presents a user's work space in 3-D images, such as a desk, file cabinet, printer and card file. Users click on the various images to access the different elements. For example, clicking on a file cabinet will give the user access into other file-server computers on the LAN. Clicking on, or "jumping out of" the office window will take a user into the Internet. Corsair is not intended for novices, unlike Microsoft Corp's Bob interface, which uses animated animals as user guides. As computers and networks become more complex, Novell hopes that Corsair will make navigation easier. Novell believes that users will turn to Corsair in their search for an interface that can be modified to fit their specific needs.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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It took awhile, but an industrial-strength visual development tool for the Macintosh is in the works
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Oracle is releasing a visual DBMS utility software package for the Macintosh called Power Objects that will be priced at about $399 for a single user and $1,999 for a network. Power Objects is a latecomer to the application development software market of products that allow users to build programs with the user-friendly drag-and-drop method but is the first to offer such a package for Apple's Macintosh. Power Objects is intended to work seamlessly with relational databases, which is very important for corporate users. The release of a database application development tool for the Macintosh will help to erase the belief that the system is inadequate for power computing. Oracle is also planning to develop a version of Power Objects for IBM's OS/2 operating system.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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