Linux Commercial HOWTO Mr. Poet v5.38, 7 March 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document contains a listing of commercial software and applications which are offered for Linux. It is maintained by Mr. Poet . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. About this document This is the Linux Commercial HOWTO. It contains a listing of commercial software which is available for Linux. The Linux Commercial HOWTO doesn't contain any information on Linux distributions -- this is covered by the Distribution HOWTO. If you contact any companies or purchase any products listed in this document, please mention the Linux Commercial HOWTO. This document was originated by Harald Milz . and then maintained by Mr. Poet It is now maintained by Mr. Poet AND LinuxPorts . If you need to know more about the Linux_Documentation_Project or about Linux HOWTO's, feel free to contact the supervisor Tim Bynum . Tim Bynum will post the listing to several national and international newsgroups on a monthly basis. In addition, the Linux Commercial HOWTO can be found on the World Wide Web at http://commercial.cyrius.com. New versions of the Linux Commercial HOWTO are always placed at this site first, so please be sure to check if the copy you are reading is still up to date! The Linux Commercial HOWTO is not a forum for product announcements or marketing hype; it is a service for potential customers and the whole Linux community. Resellers will not be listed; the list is for companies who produce their software themselves. Two main goals are being aimed at: * It shall help companies who want to run Linux to find software solutions and applications. The international distribution of this list will enhance the contact opportunity. * It is meant to prove the commercial useability of Linux and thus to encourage other vendors to port their software as well. Companies and developers who are offering their products for Linux and interested in joining the Linux Commercial HOWTO are invited to fill out the following form and contact me at poet@linuxports.com. This HOWTO contains tabular entries for each product (example follows). The entry format is similar to the Linux Software Map (LSM) entry (field/stanza lengths are arbitrary). If you want me to add your entry please keep short, otherwise I'll have to shorten your data. Furthermore, please send me plain ASCII data; no HTML, and no PostScript. Category: Databases, Data Visualisation, Development tools, Financial Software, Mathematics, Multimedia, Network Management, Text Processing, X Windows or Other Software. Name: The name of your application. Description: Short description of the package, just the basic functionality. Distribution media: Licensing policy: Whatever applies. Is there a free demo or shareware version available via FTP or WWW? Where? OS provisions: Kernel version, XFree86 version, Motif version, RAM, harddisk usage, etc. Documentation: Printed documentation, page number, online help, language. Extra features and add-Ons: (and their prices) Price range: Whatever it costs. Vendor: Address: Phone: (U.S. and Canada: if you like to be reachable internationally, please don't enter only a +1 800 or +1 900 number) Fax: EMail: URL: Contact: 2. Copyright Information This HOWTO is Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998 by Mr. Poet. A verbatim copy may be reproduced or distributed in any medium physical or electronic without permission of the author. Translations are similarly permitted without express permission if it includes a notice on who translated it. Short quotes may be used without prior consent by the author. Derivative work and partial distributions of the Linux Commercial HOWTO must be accompanied with either a verbatim copy of this file or a pointer to the verbatim copy. Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however, the author would like to be notified of any such distributions. In short, we wish to promote dissemination of this information through as many channels as possible. However, we do wish to retain copyright on the HOWTO documents, and would like to be notified of any plans to redistribute the HOWTOs. We further want that all information provided in the HOWTOs is disseminated. If you have questions, please contact Tim Bynum, the Linux HOWTO coordinator, at linux-howto@metalab.unc.edu. 3. Disclaimer This HOWTO is not actually a HOWTO in the sense of the Linux_Documentation Project. Instead, it is an instrument to investigate the commercial Linux opportunity and to list applications which were already ported and marketed in a native Linux version. As a software vendor, you probably know that you can alternatively offer Linux users a statically linked SCO version of your application which would probably run under the iBCS2 emulator (albeit with a small performance penalty and higher memory requirements). Such applications will not be listed here. I will not select nor deselect any particular product. Instead, everyone who wants to have her product included will be serviced. However, I reserve the right to shorten individual entries to keep things in shape. If you don't find a particular product or vendor in this list, this is probably due to one of the following reasons: * I never heard of that product or vendor and thus didn't try to get in contact. * I did get in contact, but the vendor didn't answer yet. * I did get in contact, but the vendor stated positively that he doesn't sell his product for Linux (yet). In any case, please get in contact if you feel someone's missing; also if you discover any errors in the file. Sometimes two vendor's addresses are mentioned in the ``Vendor:'' field. In these cases I received the information from the German subsidiary/distributor. The original manufacturer's address is always mentioned first. 4. Related Information There's another document which covers commercial Linux software. It is maintained by Alan Cox and can be found at http:// www.uk.linux.org/LxCommercial.html. In addition, feel free to visit the Linux_Mall where you can order most products presented in this HOWTO. 5. Linux for the Commercial Market? Copyright © 1996 iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin Courtesy of iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin! People keep asking me ``When is Linux going to be ready for the commercial market''. I guess the first thing to discuss is what is meant by "commercial" in this context. Some CD-ROM vendors have put the word "commercial" in their name, only to have the technical people think their product is good only for use by banks and insurance companies. Other people look at their product with disdain and say that ``Linux is not commercial quality'', because it is missing some feature they need, or they feel it is unstable (usually without ever trying it even one time). To me, the word ``commercial'' has lost as much meaning in the marketplace as some of the other buzzwords: * ``Open'' vs ``Proprietary'' (People are now saying UNIX is ``Proprietary'') * ``Workstation'' vs ``PC'' (What is a workstation, anyway?) In the old days of computing the commercial market was banks, insurance companies and business-oriented facilities where the use of COBOL or RPG was the mainstream. The technical market was scientific, engineering and manufacturing where FORTRAN and assembly language was used. Somewhere along the way the term ``commercial'' seems to have gotten twisted around to mean ``ready for the mass market'', versus ``ready for hackers''. For the purpose of this article I will take the second meaning, and address whether I think Linux is ready for commercial purposes rather than the hobbyist and hacker market, and ready for the mass market rather than limited markets. For those of you who hate reading long articles, or who are short on time, let me give you my conclusion right now. Then you can go out and drink beer or other fun activities: ``Yes, Linux is ready for the commercial market...in some cases''. In order for an operating system to be ready for the mass market it must have several attributes: * have lots of applications * be relatively easy to install * have lots of applications * be relatively easy to maintain * have lots of applications * be relatively easy to use * have lots of applications * not crash (much) * have lots of applications * be economical * have lots of applications But you can eliminate all of these considerations in today's mass market if only one thing is true: You have lots of applications. after all, there would not be 170,000,000 DOS systems in the world if any of the others had to be true. I almost added that is has to be economical, but history has actually proven me wrong on that. If people added up the total cost of ownership, then Apple would certainly have won over the PC. But people ignore the human costs of someone else (or even themselves) beating their head against the wall trying to get something to work, or the system crashing repeatedly, or the fact that the one keystroke they can hit the easiest (through practice) is In the old days people were content to spend several hundreds of dollars on a simple ASCII text editor, or deal with a simple spreadsheet. And it took an act of mangement to get them, with lots of Purchase Orders. Today, they want multi- media integrated with their operating system, and have all the applications available that their neighbor (or boss, or compatriot) has available on their system. And they want to get these applications easily, certainly no harder than to call up on the phone to order them through a catalog, or go down to their corner store to get them. Now what causes this plethora of applications for an operating system? Ease of programming? Good software development tools? Features inside the operating system? Stability of the interfaces over time? The answer is ``none of these''. While all these attributes may help convince an application developer to port, the one overriding issue is volume of the operating system platform. Again, if MSDOS were compared to MacOS, or even to UNIX and volume were not taken into account, we know which two operating systems would have the most applications, and they would not be from Microsoft. While it is true that several Linux vendors are working on getting these applications for the mass market (read this " your mother and father"), the number of applications that run on Microsoft platforms have been estimated as high as 35,000. SunOS has an estimated 10,000 applications, with other `commercial UNIX'' systems (including Solaris 2.x) much lower in number. It will take the Linux vendors a long time to get the number of applications necessary to hit the really large mass market, particularly if they did not depend on iBCS2 and DOS/Windows compatibility (which could supply a fair number of current applications), but depended on ``native'' Linux applications. So applications are king (and queen) for the mass market, and installed base (volume) or the promise of explosive growth (volume) is the key to these. But is the mass market the only ``commercial'' market? The answer is ``no''. The mass market is a subset (albeit very large one) of the commercial market. So let's look at what the rest of the commercial market needs. We will look at this by segmenting the market into: * turnkey systems * large end-user customers * specialized markets 5.1 Turnkey systems When I speak of turnkey systems I typically mean a computer system that has one specific (or not so specific) application that runs on it. Examples of turnkey systems are point-of-sale terminals, reservation systems, CAD systems, etc. But in a larger sense, other applications such as Web servers, nameservers (such as BIND), etc. could also be considered ``turnkey'', since they have only a few necessary programs that have to run on the system. Usually turnkey systems are ones that an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) or Value Added Reseller (VAR) will chose a hardware system, an operating system, port an application to it, then duplicate that system 500 to 1000 times without change to the basic application. These ISVs and VARs will try to chose the lowest cost solution to fit their customer's needs. Linux is perfect for these types of applications. The operating system is stable enough for the developer to port their application and test the application fully. Once it is fully tested and stable, the entire package is ``frozen'' and duplicated any number of times for the end customer. Since the operating system may be freely copied, and it runs on inexpensive hardware, their variable costs are minimal. Even a developer who is not familiar with the Linux system (so they need help getting it running on a platform) will quickly pay back the porting and system programmer costs they accrue by not paying $200-$500. per license for the operating system. Plus they have all the source code for the entire system, in case they run into trouble later on. You can buy a lot of Linux support for $200-$500K. As I said before, I include Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as part of this ``turnkey'' environment, for both external internet and internal internet. Why overload your expensive, high-powered, highly complex general-purpose server to do Web serving when a smaller, simpler box can offload it? Why not run your NIS slaves on a Linux box? Or perhaps your BIND server? In the early days of Digital UNIX (known then as DEC OSF/1) we did not have very many applications. In fact we had none. The marketing staff came to me with sad faces asking if it was possible to sell an operating system that had no applications. I invented a term called ``Turbocharging'', which allowed a Digital UNIX system using the speed and power of the Alpha processor (as well as the throughput of our networking devices) to offload NIS, NFS, BIND and other services from people's overloaded, slower SPARC machines. We also showed people how they could use the rsh(1) command to allow the Alpha to do a portion of their very CPU intensive processing while delivering the result back to the SPARCs on their desk. This allowed the SPARCs to work more on applications and less on the other ``system administration'' tasks that they were performing. We sold lots of Digital UNIX systems based solely on executing those tasks. Today, of course, Digital UNIX has a lot more applications, and particularly very large memory databases that are extremely fast. But the same principle applies. The database engine runs on the Alpha system, supplying data to the slower SPARC engines as a ``Turbocharger''. I could see Linux systems headed in the same direction, following the same path. 5.2 Large end-user customers Very large customers often have their own home-grown applications which they need to deploy across a wide network of people. Or they can have management dictate a certain suite of applications, which then can be ported to Linux. Since these customers are so large, their operating system costs are huge, and utilizing the savings using the Linux operating system they may completely cover the expenses of porting their software. Or these very large customers may ``influence'' their layered product providers to port to the Linux platform. Finally, they may even change some of their computing habits (to use existing programs) if the cost savings are enough to warrant it. Companies like Caldera are creating a suite of applications and approaching these very large customers to show them the operating system savings that they can achieve if they switch to Linux. While it is true that every application the customer could ever conceive of running may not run on Linux, by using the native applications, the iBCS2 applications, the DOSEMU applications, and applications that run under WABI, a nice suite of applications could be built to solve their needs. 5.3 Specialized markets Finally there are what I call ``specialized markets''. Markets that might buy Linux simply because it is Linux, and not because of the application suites that it provides. In the education field there are three main markets: * administrative * ``campus computing'' * computer science education The administrative part is the ``business'' aspect of the market. They are looking for easy-to-use systems that can also handle complex administrative tasks that might cover a community the size of a small city. The ``campus computing'' is the supply of computing power and service for majors of all types, web services and research into non-computer science (for example, molecular modeling) research. Finally there is computer science education, both on the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as research into computer science. While the administrative sub-market typically relies more on shrink-wrapped applications, the other two rely on them to a lesser extent (with the computer science education market relying the least). The other two markets can utilize a lot more of the freeware and shareware applications that are already ported to Linux. This gives them a very low-cost (from a software perspective) platform while allowing them to see and (often) modify the source code for the applications they use. More importantly, in the computer science research area, the results of the research can be freely distributed to others working in the field, or even published as source code to illustrate the results. This can not be done with ``commercial'' operating systems. Some universities are utilizing Linux more and more to run their campus. From a ``commercial'' standpoint, their needs are the same as many large businesses. Students graduating from college will know about Linux, and bring the word to their future employers. Finally, there is the computer hobbyist and software developer market. I relate this market to the amateur radio market. In the amateur radio market the radio is often used to simply talk to other people, but at the same time the users investigate new ways of using radio, and improving it. Many electrical engineers started out as amateur radio users. So it can be with Linux, since for the first time both the prices of the hardware and the prices of the operating system source code are within the reach of mortal people. In conclusion, I feel that Linux does have the items needed for several types of ``commercial'' uses: * stability and quality * low variable costs for turnkey applications * explosive growth in volume to attract ISVs What Linux really needs is for the ``commercial'' community to understand what is going on, and to embrace it where it will be useful. This will increase the volume numbers even more, which will attract more applications. Along these lines I would like to ``advertise'' a joint effort of USENIX and Linux International to happen in January of 1997 in Anaheim, California of the United States. There will be a joint USENIX/Linux development conference, and while a certain part of the Linux conference will be oriented towards the development of the Linux operating system, the bulk of the conference will be oriented towards application developers and marketing people, to better understand the Linux operating system and how to sell their applications and services into the Linux market. We hope to show ISVs, VARs, resellers and distributors how they can make money by selling their applications and services on top of the Linux operating system. 5.4 Biography Jon ``maddog'' Hall is a Senior Leader in the Digital Equipment Corporation UNIX group. He has been in the computer industry for twenty-five years, UNIX for sixteen years and has guided the emergence of six operating systems, including Alpha Linux. He has an MS in Computer Science. 6. Website Development 6.1 ASWedit, HTML editor Phone: +44 181 251 0033 Fax: +44 181 251 0011 EMail: as@advasoft.com URL: http://www.advasoft.com Contact: Andre Stochniol Last modified: August 30, 1997. 6.2 Empress DataWEB Phone: +1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 8888 (Canada) Fax: +1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 1668 (Canada) EMail: sales@empress.com URL: http://www.empress.com Contact: Dick Naedel Last modified: August 4, 1997. 6.3 EZ-EDIT Phone: +1 610 381 3072 Fax: +1 610 381 3072 EMail: ez-edit@relative-web.com URL: http://www.relative-web.com/dynamic/ez-edit/ Contact: John Bergeron Last modified: October 6, 1997. 6.4 LinkScan EMail: ken@elsop.com URL: http://www.elsop.com Contact: Ken Churilla Last modified: November 6, 1997. 6.5 TalentSoft Web+ (WebPlus) Phone: +1 612 338 8900 Fax: +1 612 904 0010 EMail: info@TalentSoft.com URL: http://www.TalentSoft.com Contact: Victor Tong, Ian Gorrie, Jeff Persche, Tony Tong Last modified: August 8, 1997. 6.6 VirtuFlex 1.1 Phone: +1 617 497 8006 Fax: +1 617 492 0486 EMail: comments@virtuflex.com URL: http://www.virtuflex.com Contact: Dan Housman Last modified: March 17, 1997. 6.7 Visual prolog Phone: +45 36 72 10 22 Fax: +45 36 72 02 69 EMail: sales@pdc.dk URL: http://www.pdc.dk Contact: Claus Witfelt Last modified: November 28, 1997. 6.8 Web Crossing Phone: +1 510 521 5855 Fax: +1 510 522 6647 EMail: sales@lundeen.com URL: http://webcrossing.com Last modified: August 16, 1997. 6.9 ThreadTrack and WebTailor from Webthreads. Phone: +1 703 848 9027 Fax: +1 703 848 2444 EMail: info@webthreads.com URL: http://www.webthreads.com Contact: Gavin Sutcliffe Last modified: March 18, 1997. 7. Databases 7.1 c-tree Plus Phone: +81 059 229 7504 Fax: +81 059 249 723 Vendor: FairCom do Brasil Ltda. Phone: +55 11 3872 9802 Fax: +55 11 3862 1752 EMail: Brazil@faircom.com Last modified: August 7, 1997. 7.2 Empress Phone: +1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 8888 (Canada) Fax: +1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 1668 (Canada) EMail: sales@empress.com URL: http://www.empress.com Contact: Dick Naedel Last modified: August 4, 1997. 7.3 Essentia Phone: +54 1 318 8900 Fax: +54 1 318 8997 EMail: info@inter-soft.com URL: http://www.inter-soft.com Last modified: August 4, 1997. 7.4 FairCom Server Phone: +81 059 229 7504 Fax: +81 059 249 723 Vendor: FairCom do Brasil Ltda. Phone: +55 11 3872 9802 Fax: +55 11 3862 1752 EMail: Brazil@faircom.com Last modified: August 7, 1997. 7.5 INFORMIX-SE Description: INFORMIX-SE is an SQL-based database engine for small- to medium-range applications. It is the ideal solution for businesses that want the power of SQL without complex database administration requirements. With over a decade of proven reliability, INFORMIX-SE has a strong track record among Unix database servers. INFORMIX-ESQL/C: Productivity, flexibility, portability, and standards are what programmers can achieve with the use of INFORMIX-ESQL for C. Developers can continue to use these familiar third-generation languages (3GLs) for developing applications and gain the advantage of using SQL to access data from those applications. Developers don't have to build their own database functions saving development time and effort. Distribution media: CD-ROM and Internet (FTP). Licensing policy: Free development license. Runtime Licenses must be purchased separately. Information on both is available at http://www.informix.com/informix/ solutions/linux/lx.html. OS provisions: The database server process requires 1.2 MB to run, and can be installed with 6 MB of disk space. Documentation: Online manuals. Product support: Annual technical support and software maintenance contracts. Extra features and add-ons: TBD. Available since: July 22, 1998. Countries with distribution: World wide. Price range: To go along with your free development license, Informix offers attractively priced maintenance contracts through Informix-Assurance: http://www.informix.com/informix/services/csp/assurance/assurance.htm Vendor: Informix Software, Inc. EMail: sales@informix.com, http://www.informix.com/cgi-bin/contact.pl URL: http://www.informix.com Last modified: September 21, 1998. 7.6 Just Logic/SQL Phone: +1 514 761 6887 Fax: +1 514 642 6480 EMail: sales@justlogic.com URL: http://www.justlogic.com Contact: Luc Vallieres Last modified: August 5, 1997. 7.7 KE Texpress Phone: +1 604 877 1960 Fax: +1 604 877 1961 EMail: info@kesoftware.com URL: http://www.kesoftware.com Contact: Andrzej Kowalski Last modified: August 4, 1997. 7.8 Qddb Phone: +1 606 886 8202 Fax: +1 606 277 3239 EMail: info@hsdi.com URL: http://www.hsdi.com Contact: Eric Herrin Last modified: November 4, 1997. 7.9 Raima Database Manager++ Phone: +1 800 327 2462, +1 206 515 9477 Fax: +1 206 748 5200 EMail: sales@raima.com URL: http://www.raima.com Contact: Dave Morse Last modified: March 18, 1997. 7.10 Empress Embedded RDBMS Phone: +1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 8888 (Canada) Fax: +1 301 220 1919 (USA), +1 905 513 1668 (Canada) EMail: sales@empress.com URL: http://www.empress.com Contact: Dick Naedel Last modified: August 4, 1997. 7.11 SOLID Server Phone: +358 9 477 4730 Fax: +358 9 477 47 390 EMail: info@solidtech.com URL: http://www.solidtech.com Last modified: August 4, 1997. 7.12 Velocis Database Server Phone: +1 800 327 2462, +1 206 515 9477 Fax: +1 206 748 5200 EMail: sales@raima.com URL: http://www.raima.com Contact: Dave Morse Last modified: November 4, 1997. 7.13 Yard SQL Fax: +49 221 98664 99 EMail: yard@yard.de URL: http://www.yard.de FTP: ftp://ftp.yard.de Contact: Thomas Schonhoven Last modified: August 4, 1997. 8. Data Visualisation and CAD 8.1 IDL (Interactive Data Language) Phone: +1 303 786 9900 Fax: +1 303 786 9909 EMail: info@rsinc.com URL: http://www.rsinc.com FTP: ftp://ftp.rsinc.com Last modified: November 5, 1997. 8.2 Megahedron Phone: +1 414 674 5200 Fax: +1 414 674 6363 EMail: syndesis@threedee.com URL: http://www.threedee.com Contact: John Foust Last modified: November 3, 1997. 8.3 Tecplot 7.0 Phone: +1 800 676 7568, +1 425 827 3304 Fax: +1 425 827 3989 EMail: tecplot@amtec.com URL: http://www.amtec.com Last modified: August 4, 1997. 8.4 VariCAD Phone: +1 613 723 5319 Fax: +1 613 723 5319 EMail: mail@varicad.com URL: http://www.varicad.com Contact: Petr Placek Last modified: August 15, 1998. 8.5 VARKON Phone: +46 19314932 Fax: +46 19314969 EMail: info@microform.se URL: http://www.microform.se Contact: Johan Kjellander Last modified: September 30, 1997. 8.6 XVScan Phone: +1 970 223 8215 Fax: +1 408 490 2728 EMail: xvscan@tummy.com URL: http://www.tummy.com/xvscan Contact: Sean Reifschneider or Evelyn Mitchell Last modified: August 4, 1997. 9. Development Tools 9.1 ACUCOBOL-GT Phone: +1 800 COBOL 85, +1 619 6897220 Fax: +1 619 566 3071 EMail: info@acucobol.com URL: http://www.acucobol.com Contact: Jeff Freedman Last modified: November 1, 1997. 9.2 Amzi! Prolog & Logic Server Phone: +1 508 897 7332 Fax: +1 508 897 2784 EMail: info@amzi.com URL: http://www.amzi.com Contact: Mary Kroening Last modified: August 4, 1997. 9.3 Basmark QuickBASIC Phone: +1 216 871 8855 Fax: +1 216 871 9011 EMail: jgo@basmark.com (for orders) URL: http://www.basmark.com Contact: Joseph O'Toole (for orders) Last modified: November 4, 1997. 9.4 Critical Mass CM3 Phone: +1 617 354 6277 Fax: +1 617 354 5027 EMail: info@cmass.com URL: http://www.cmass.com Last modified: May 19, 1997. 9.5 Dynace Phone: +1 800 566 8991, +1 615 791 1636 Fax: +1 615 791 7736 EMail: blake@edge.net URL: http://www.edge.net/algorithms Contact: Blake McBride Last modified: August 4, 1997. 9.6 Absoft Fortran 77 Phone: +1 248 853 0050 Fax: +1 248 853 0108 EMail: sales@absoft.com URL: http://www.absoft.com Contact: Wood Lotz Last modified: August 7, 1997. 9.7 Finesse Phone: +49 7071 9457 0 Fax: +49 7071 9457 27 EMail: info@science-computing.de URL: http://www.science-computing.de FTP: ftp://ftp.science-computing.de/pub/finesse. Contact: Olaf Flebbe Last modified: February 25, 1997. 9.8 ISE Eiffel Phone: +1 805 685 1006 Fax: +1 805 685 6869 EMail: info@eiffel.com URL: http://www.eiffel.com Last modified: October 3, 1997. 9.9 EiffelBench Phone: +1 805 685 1006 Fax: +1 805 685 6869 EMail: info@eiffel.com URL: http://www.eiffel.com Last modified: October 3, 1997. 9.10 C-Forge IDE Description: C-Forge is a highly scalable, multi-user integrated development environment that provides full project management and complete edit, compile and debug cycle support. Includes its own full-featured editor, revision control tool and diff tool. Drag and drop is enabled throughout the environment. Allows easy configuration and use of external tools. Currently supports C/C++ -- more languages on the way. Distribution media: Internet (FTP). Licensing policy: Single user and floating multi user licenses available. Free demo available at our web_site. OS provisions: Works with Linux kernels 2.0.x and 2.1.x. Installations available in tar.gz and RPM formats. Documentation: Online. Product support: By EMail. Extra features and add-ons: We add the features you want to future versions of C-Forge. Available since: February, 1998. Countries with distribution: World wide. Price range: US$30 for single user version. Contact for corporate pricing policies. Educational discounts available. Vendor: Code Forge Inc. EMail: consult@codeforge.com URL: http://www.codeforge.com Contact: Yuri Mironoff Last modified: February 8, 1998. 9.11 IdeaFix Phone: +54 1 318 8900 Fax: +54 1 318 8997 EMail: info@inter-soft.com URL: http://www.inter-soft.com Last modified: August 4, 1997. 9.12 j-tree Phone: +81 059 229 7504 Fax: +81 059 249 723 Vendor: FairCom do Brasil Ltda. Phone: +55 11 3872 9802 Fax: +55 11 3862 1752 EMail: Brazil@faircom.com Last modified: August 9, 1997. 9.13 KAI C++ Phone: +1 217 356 2288 Fax: +1 217 356 5199 EMail: kai@kai.com URL: http://www.kai.com/kcc_howto.shtml Contact: Bruce Leasure Last modified: July 14, 1997. 9.14 Khoros Pro 2.1 Phone: +1 505 837 6500 Fax: +1 505 881 3842 EMail: info@khoral.com URL: http://www.khoral.com FTP: ftp://ftp.khoral.com Contact: Annie MacFarlane Last modified: August 4, 1997. 9.15 MetaCard Phone: +1 303 447 3936 Fax: +1 303 499 9855 EMail: info@metacard.com URL: http://www.metacard.com Last modified: August 4, 1997. 9.16 ObjectManual Release 3.0 Phone: +1 214 373 2021 Fax: +1 972 662 0756 EMail: objsoft@netcom.com URL: http://www.obsoft.com Contact: Bobby Sardana Last modified: September 30, 1997. 9.17 Critical Mass Reactor Phone: +1 617 354 6277 Fax: +1 617 354 5027 EMail: info@cmass.com URL: http://www.cmass.com Last modified: May 19, 1997. 9.18 Resource Standard Metrics Phone: +1 407 880 2627 Fax: +1 407 880 2627 EMail: m2tech@reachus.com URL: http://www.m2tech.net Last modified: September 25, 1998. 9.19 r-tree Phone: +81 059 229 7504 Fax: +81 059 249 723 Vendor: FairCom do Brasil Ltda. Phone: +55 11 3872 9802 Fax: +55 11 3862 1752 EMail: Brazil@faircom.com Last modified: August 7, 1997. 9.20 sdoc (Source Documenter) Phone: +43 316 686590 Fax: +43 316 686590 EMail: risc@ping.at URL: http://members.ping.at/risc Contact: Richard Schwaninger Last modified: August 7, 1997. 9.21 SEDIT, S/REXX Phone: +33 1 47 22 22 13 Fax: +33 1 47 22 06 17 EMail: sedit@dialup.FranceNet.fr URL: http://www.sedit.com Contact: Robert Benaroya Last modified: August 4, 1997. 9.22 SNiFF+ Phone: +43 662 4579150 Fax: +43 662 4579156 EMail: info@takefive.co.at URL: http://www.takefive.co.at Last modified: November 3, 1997. 9.23 ST/X (Smalltalk/X) Phone: +49 7143 870045 Fax: +49 7143 870048 EMail: info@exept.de URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/exept Contact: David Queeney Last modified: August 5, 1997. 9.24 tdb (Tcl Debugger) Phone: +43 316 686590 Fax: +43 316 686590 EMail: risc@ping.at URL: http://members.ping.at/risc Contact: Richard Schwaninger Last modified: August 7, 1997. 9.25 tprof (Tcl Profiler) Phone: +43 316 686590 Fax: +43 316 686590 EMail: risc@ping.at URL: http://members.ping.at/risc Contact: Richard Schwaninger Last modified: August 7, 1997. 9.26 View Designer/X (VDX) Phone: +49 531 24 33 00 Fax: +49 531 24 33 099 EMail: info@bredex.de URL: http://www.bredex.de Contact: Regina Heine Last modified: October 13, 1997. 9.27 XBasic Phone: +1 216 871 8855 Fax: +1 216 871 9011 EMail: jgo@basmark.com URL: http://www.basmark.com Contact: Joseph G. O'Toole Last modified: November 4, 1997. 9.28 XMove 4.0 for Linux Phone: +39 434 20 91 07 Fax: +39 434 20 95 10 EMail: info@futuretg.com URL: http://www.futuretg.com Contact: Giovanni A. Orlando Last modified: August 12, 1997. 10. Emulation 10.1 Emulus Phone: +1 919 677 8000 Fax: +1 919 677 8166 EMail: saspjh@unx.sas.com URL: http://www.sas.com Contact: Phil Herold Last modified: August 4, 1997. 10.2 Executor 2 Phone: +1 505 766 9115 Fax: +1 505 766 5153 EMail: questions@ardi.com URL: http://www.ardi.com Last modified: November 4, 1997. 10.3 Wabi 2.2 for OpenLinux Phone: +1 800 850 7779, +1 801 377 7687 Fax: +1 801 377 8752 EMail: orders@caldera.com URL: http://www.caldera.com Contact: Nathan Hatch Last modified: November 14, 1997. 11. Financial Software 11.1 BB Stock Pro and BB Stock Tool Phone: +1 510 505 0700 EMail: skyline@falkor.com URL: http://www.falkor.com Contact: Henry Chen Last modified: March 18, 1997. 11.2 TimeClock Phone: +1 888 423 5757, +1 423 821 5757 Fax: +1 423 629 0744 EMail: dbryson@tclock.com URL: http://www.tclock.com Contact: Donald Bryson Last modified: August 4, 1997. 12. Libraries 12.1 FontScope Phone: +1 800 563 0843, +1 510 843 6485 (Sales only) Fax: +1 650 254 0900 EMail: info@curvesoft.com URL: http://www.curvesoft.com Contact: Munagala V. S. Ramanath Last modified: October 24, 1997. 12.2 INTERACTER Phone: +44 1543 503611 Fax: +44 1543 574566 EMail: support@issltd.demon.co.uk URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/issltd Last modified: October 1, 1997. 12.3 Matrix - C++ Math Matrix Library Phone: +1 212 208 4476 Fax: +1 888 628 4866, +1 215 957 1719 EMail: info@mathtools.com URL: http://www.mathtools.com Contact: Robert G. Ford Last modified: August 7, 1997. 12.4 PKWARE Data Compression Library for Linux Phone: +1 414 354 8699 Fax: +1 414 354 8559 EMail: info@pkware.com URL: http://www.pkware.com Contact: Bob Gorman Last modified: August 5, 1997. 12.5 readyBase Phone: +1 312 341 1755 Fax: +1 312 341 1891 EMail: info@dynamical-systems.com URL: http://www.dynamical-systems.com Contact: Gary Kuper Last modified: April 22, 1998. 12.6 SIMLIB IG Phone: +43 512 390415 650 Fax: +43 512 364000 20, +43 512 364000 30 EMail: office@knienieder.co.at Contact: Stephan Haidacher Last modified: September 29, 1997. 13. Mathematics 13.1 Maple V Release 4 - The Power Edition Phone: +49 241 47075 0 Fax: +49 241 44983 EMail: maple@scientific.de Contact: Andreas Himmeldorf Last modified: August 4, 1997. 13.2 MATCOM and MATCOM MATH LIBRARY Phone: +1 212 208 4476 Fax: +1 888 628 4866, +1 215 957 1719 EMail: info@mathtools.com URL: http://www.mathtools.com Contact: Robert G. Ford Last modified: August 7, 1997. 13.3 Mathematica 3.0 Phone: +44 1993 883400 Fax: +44 1993 883800 EMail: info@wolfram.co.uk URL: http://www.wolfram.co.uk Last modified: May 25, 1998. 13.4 MATLAB and Simulink Phone: +1 508 647 7000 x7322 Fax: +1 508 647 7002 EMail: efroio@mathworks.com, brian@mathworks.com URL: http://www.mathworks.com Contact: Enza Froio (Marketing), Brian Bourgault (Technical) Last modified: March 27, 1997. 14. Multimedia 14.1 Peter Lipa and his Journeys Phone: +421 95 6233335 Fax: +421 95 6233336 EMail: linux@kdk.sk URL: http://www.kdk.sk, http://obchod.kdk.sk (virtual store). Contact: Ivan Schreter Last modified: November 1, 1997. 14.2 Lucka Vondrackova and her Journeys Phone: +421 95 6233335 Fax: +421 95 6233336 EMail: linux@kdk.sk URL: http://www.kdk.sk, http://obchod.kdk.sk (virtual store). Contact: Ivan Schreter Last modified: November 1, 1997. 14.3 MpegTV Player 1.0 Phone: +1 415 864 6466 EMail: info@mpegtv.com URL: http://www.mpegtv.com Contact: Tristan Savatier Last modified: December 23, 1997. 14.4 Peter Nagy and his Journeys Phone: +421 95 6233335 Fax: +421 95 6233336 EMail: linux@kdk.sk URL: http://www.kdk.sk, http://obchod.kdk.sk (virtual store). Contact: Ivan Schreter Last modified: November 1, 1997. 14.5 Xaudio Phone: +1 415 864 6466 EMail: xaudio@mpegtv.com URL: http://www.xaudio.com Contact: Gilles Boccon-Gibod Last modified: December 23, 1997. 15. Network Servers 15.1 Critical Angle X.500 Enabler EMail: info@critical-angle.com URL: http://www.critical-angle.com Contact: Mark Wahl Last modified: August 5, 1997. 15.2 DNEWS News Server Fax: +64 9 6300 689 EMail: netwin@netwinsite.com URL: http://netwinsite.com Contact: Stephen Pugmire Last modified: August 4, 1997. 15.3 Aventail Internet Policy Manager Phone: +1 888 762 5785, +1 206 215 1111 Fax: +1 206 215 1120 EMail: info@aventail.com URL: http://www.aventail.com Last modified: June 23, 1998. 15.4 Aventail VPN Phone: +1 206 215 1111 Fax: +1 206 215 1120 EMail: info@aventail.com URL: http://www.aventail.com Contact: Deanna Leung Last modified: June 23, 1998. 15.5 WANPIPE Phone: +1 905 474 1990, +1 800 388 2475 Fax: +1 905 474 9223 EMail: dm@sangoma.com URL: http://www.sangoma.com FTP: ftp://ftp.sangoma.com/pub/linux Contact: David Mandelstam Last modified: May 8, 1998. 15.6 Zeus Web Server Phone: +44 1223 42 17 27 Fax: +44 1223 42 17 31 EMail: sales@zeustech.net URL: http://www.zeustech.net Contact: Bryan Amesbury Last modified: December 23, 1997. 16. Office Tools 16.1 Corel WordPerfect 8 Phone: +1 801 370 9600 Fax: +1 801 370 9696 EMail: info@sdcorp.com URL: http://www.sdcorp.com Contact: John Gleave Last modified: August 15, 1998. 16.2 The American Heritage Dictionary Deluxe Phone: +1 800 543 4999, +1 415 473 1800 Fax: +1 415 462 8723 EMail: sales@dux.com URL: http://www.dux.com Contact: Bob Adams, Rob DuFrane Last modified: August 7, 1997. 16.3 Applixware Office Suite for Linux Phone: +1 508 870 0300 EMail: mrlinux@applix.com URL: http://linux.applixware.com Contact: Richard Manly Last modified: October 1, 1998. 16.4 D.M.S. Document Management System Phone: +39 461 828229 Fax: +39 461 829826, +39 461 829877 EMail: DMS@leader.it URL: http://www.leader.it Contact: Guido Brugnara Last modified: August 19, 1997. 16.5 HotWire EasyFAX Phone: +1 407 834 1973 Fax: +1 407 834 8013 EMail: sales@unisrc.com URL: http://www.unisrc.com Contact: Gary Heller Last modified: October 3, 1997. 16.6 NExS, the Network Extensible Spreadsheet Phone: +1 800 961 7840, +1 919 387 0076 Fax: +1 919 387 1302 EMail: info@xess.com URL: http://www.xess.com FTP: ftp://ftp.vnet.net/pub/users/xess/NExS Contact: Dave Van den Bout Last modified: March 15, 1997. 16.7 Axene Office Phone: +1 201 434 4244 EMail: info@axene.com URL: http://www.axene.com/english/showroom.html FTP: ftp://ftp.axene.com/pub Last modified: February 8, 1998. 16.8 Projector and Projector/Net Phone: +1 515 225 1636 EMail: mrdovey@iedu.com URL: http://www.iedu.com/project Contact: Morris Dovey Last modified: May 8, 1998. 16.9 The Virtual Office System Phone: +1 301 334 6550 EMail: sales@contextis.com URL: http://www.contextis.com Last modified: June 13, 1998. 16.10 Axene XAllWrite Phone: +1 201 434 4244 EMail: info@axene.com URL: http://www.axene.com/english/xallwrite.html FTP: ftp://ftp.axene.com/pub Last modified: February 8, 1998. 16.11 Axene Xclamation Phone: +1 201 434 4244 EMail: info@axene.com URL: http://www.axene.com/english/xclamation.html FTP: ftp://ftp.axene.com/pub Last modified: February 8, 1998. 16.12 Axene XQuad Phone: +1 201 434 4244 EMail: info@axene.com URL: http://www.axene.com/english/xquad.html FTP: ftp://ftp.axene.com/pub Last modified: February 8, 1998. 17. Text Processing 17.1 Edith Pro for X11 Phone: +31 20 4 208 248 EMail: zfc@zfc.nl URL: http://www.zfc.nl Contact: Annius V. Groenink Last modified: August 4, 1997. 17.2 TeraSpell 97 for Emacs Phone: +1 617 369 0100 Fax: +1 617 369 0101 EMail: info@teragram.com URL: http://www.teragram.com Contact: Yves Schabes Last modified: August 16, 1997. 18. System Administration Tools 18.1 Host Factory EMail: bb@wv.com URL: http://www.wv.com Contact: Brian Bartholomew Last modified: July 22, 1997. 18.2 PerfectBACKUP+ Phone: +1 407 834 1973 Fax: +1 407 834 1973 EMail: sales@unisrc.com URL: http://www.unisrc.com Contact: Gary Heller Last modified: October 3, 1997. 18.3 Venus Phone: +49 7071 9457 0 Fax: +49 7071 9457 27 EMail: info@science-computing.de URL: http://www.science-computing.de Contact: Olaf Flebbe Last modified: February 25, 1997. 19. X Windows Related Products 19.1 Accelerated-X Display Server Phone: +1 303 298 7478 Fax: +1 303 298 1406 EMail: sales@xig.com URL: http://www.xig.com Contact: Kyle Fink Last modified: August 14, 1997. 19.2 BXwidgets Phone: +49 531 24 33 0 0 Fax: +49 531 24 33 0 99 EMail: info@bredex.de URL: http://www.bredex.de Last modified: November 3, 1997. 19.3 BXwidgets/DB Phone: +49 531 24 33 0 0 Fax: +49 531 24 33 0 99 EMail: info@bredex.de URL: http://www.bredex.de Last modified: November 3, 1997. 19.4 Laptop, Accelerated-X Display Server Phone: +1 303 298 7478 Fax: +1 303 298 1406 EMail: sales@xig.com URL: http://www.xig.com Contact: Kyle Fink Last modified: August 14, 1997. 19.5 MaXimum cde Developer's Edition v1.0 Phone: +1 303 298 7478 Fax: +1 303 298 1406 EMail: sales@xig.com URL: http://www.xig.com Contact: Kyle Fink Last modified: August 14, 1997. 19.6 Multi-headed, Accelerated-X Display Server Phone: +1 303 298 7478 Fax: +1 303 298 1406 EMail: sales@xig.com URL: http://www.xig.com Contact: Kyle Fink Last modified: August 14, 1997. 19.7 OpenGL, Accelerated-X Display Server Phone: +1 303 298 7478 Fax: +1 303 298 1406 EMail: sales@xig.com URL: http://www.xig.com Contact: Kyle Fink Last modified: August 14, 1997. 19.8 OSF-Certified Motif Phone: +1 303 298 7478 Fax: +1 303 298 1406 EMail: sales@xig.com URL: http://www.xig.com Contact: Kyle Fink Last modified: August 14, 1997. 20. Other Software 20.1 ABACUS 4 Phone: +46 21 350450 Fax: +46 21 350455 EMail: abacusabacus@hotmail.com, abacus4@geocities.com URL: http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Enterprises/2275/abacus4.html Contact: Frank McNamara Last modified: July 12, 1998. 20.2 BBBS Phone: +358 2 240 1513 Fax: +358 2 240 7755 EMail: b@bbbs.net URL: http://www.bbbs.net Contact: Kim Heino Last modified: August 2, 1998. 20.3 Clustor Phone: +1 415 882 7062 Fax: +1 415 680 2369 EMail: info@activetools.com URL: http://www.activetools.com Contact: Rok Sosic, Sergij Foski Last modified: August 7, 1997. 20.4 FootPrints Phone: +1 800 222 0550, +1 732 287 2100 Fax: +1 732 287 4929 EMail: info@unipress.com URL: http://www.unipress.com/footprints Contact: Sue Glassberg Last modified: August 4, 1997. 20.5 Aladdin Ghostscript Phone: +1 415 492 9861 Fax: +1 415 492 9862 EMail: info@arsoft.com URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html Last modified: September 30, 1997. 20.6 Magician Phone: +44 141 423 3449 Fax: +44 141 423 3449 EMail: magician-sales@arcana.co.uk URL: http://www.arcana.co.uk/products/magician Contact: Alligator Descartes Last modified: July 12, 1998. 20.7 journyx WebTime Phone: +1 512 345 8282 Fax: +1 512 342 9379 EMail: info@journyx.com URL: http://journyx.com Contact: Curt Finch Last modified: October 24, 1997. 20.8 LanSafe Phone: +1 800 554 3448, +1 919 872 3020, +44 1753 686200 Fax: +1 800 75 EXIDE, +44 1753 686827 EMail: info@exide.com, info@deltecpower.com, sales_support@exide.co.uk URL: http://www.exide.com, http://www.deltecpower.com, http://www.fpsUPS.com Last modified: October 12, 1997. 20.9 LjetMgr Phone: +43 316 686590 Fax: +43 316 686590 EMail: risc@ping.at URL: http://members.ping.at/risc Contact: Richard Schwaninger Last modified: August 7, 1997. 20.10 Synchronize/CyberScheduler Phone: +1 408 469 1780 Fax: +1 408 469 1750 EMail: info@crosswind.com URL: http://www.crosswind.com Contact: Anne Becker Last modified: November 13, 1997. 21. Free Software for Commercial Hardware This section covers free Linux software (e.g. drivers) for specialized hardware. 21.1 Stallion Technologies Multiport Serial Boards Phone: +1 800 347 7979 Fax: +1 408 477 0444 EMail: info@stallion.com URL: http://www.stallion.com FTP: ftp://ftp.stallion.com Last modified: September 30, 1997.