Windows player PageAhead Software Corp is demonstrating a piece of software called the SimbaEngine C/S, which it says will turn Unix applications into high-performance Open Data Base Connectivity-enabled client-server applications without re-engineering the underlying data. PageAhead expects to ship the tool kit, which will add Open Data Base Connectivity access to the data in Unix […]
Windows player PageAhead Software Corp is demonstrating a piece of software called the SimbaEngine C/S, which it says will turn Unix applications into high-performance Open Data Base Connectivity-enabled client-server applications without re-engineering the underlying data. PageAhead expects to ship the tool kit, which will add Open Data Base Connectivity access to the data in Unix applications, at the end of the third quarter. It consists of two components, a client program and a server program. Off-the-shelf applications access the Unix data by making Open Data Base Connectivity calls to the SimbaClient, a small Windows-based driver, the Seattle, Washington company explained. SimbaClient then packages and sends the Open Data Base Connectivity SQL call to the Unix-based server component, the SimbaEngine, where the request is processed and the results sent back to the client computer. The program will be able to administer rights granted to various tables centrally, a task that previously had to be performed on individual client machines. The client, which will run under Windows, Macintosh System and OS/2, is said to occupy less than half the space required by other client Open Data Base Connectivity drivers. The SimbaEngine will support multi-user access, concurrency control, transaction processing and security depending on whether those features are present in the Unix application. It will appear first under Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix, IBM Corp AIX and Sunsoft Inc Solaris with HP-UX to follow.
