Inference Corp, El Segundo, California, has introduced Art*Enterprise, a 32-bit object-oriented development environment for Microsoft Corp Windows NT and Unix. The software, developed under NT, is written in C, C++ and the firm’s own object oriented development language. Art*Enterprise is a three layered object-based architecture designed for client-server environments. The first layer comprises a suite […]
Inference Corp, El Segundo, California, has introduced Art*Enterprise, a 32-bit object-oriented development environment for Microsoft Corp Windows NT and Unix. The software, developed under NT, is written in C, C++ and the firm’s own object oriented development language. Art*Enterprise is a three layered object-based architecture designed for client-server environments. The first layer comprises a suite of object-based graphical user interface tools, which enable users to generate code using point and click functions; the second is an application programming interface level, which enables developers to create abstract entities and logical objects; and a data mapping object specification enables users to define an object-oriented view of the firm’s corporate data without modifing existing code. Art*Enterprise also supports data access interfaces to a variety of relational databases including Oracle, Sybase and DB/2. Support for Informix, Ingres and VSAM will be added later in the year, it says. Other Art*Enterprise features include: an object-oriented repository, which catalogues supported database tools, as well as other third party software and Inference’s own tools; editors and browsers; and a text retrieval system for recalling unstructured information. Art*Enterprise is available for Windows, Windows NT and OS/2 systems from July and on Sun Microsystems Inc, IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines in October. Its priced at $7,000 – UKP4,500 – for Windows and OS/2 versions and $10,000 UKP6,800 for Unix and NT editions.
