Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 20 Jan 1995

Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 20 Jan 1995

[Ada Information Clearinghouse]

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       ALSYS MERGES WITH COMMERCIAL 4GL COMPANY TO BECOME
                    THOMSON SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
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DATELINE:  January 20, 1995

Alsys, Inc., has recently merged with MUST Software International,
a software vendor of fourth-generation (4GL) products and related
services for the commercial marketplace.  As of January 1, 1995,
the two companies became Thomson Software Products, a subsidiary of
Thomson-CSF, the France-based parent of both companies.

Jean-Luc Badault, President and CEO of MUST, will become the CEO of
Thomson Software Products.  Ben Goodwin, President of Alsys, will
become the CEO for North America and the Pacific Rim for the new
organization.    

According to Goodwin, commitment to the future of the Ada language
remains unaltered, "We will continue to provide the highest quality
Ada development environments, tools and support now and in the
future."  

A valuable change that will come with this merger is the broad
spectrum of products and services the new company can offer as well
as a stronger foundation to invest in research and development to
accelerate the delivery of new products.  Together, the companies
(Alsys and MUST) offer a range of software solutions and
capabilities that address virtually every facet of enterprise-wide
software needs.

[Source:  Alsys, Inc., 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San
Diego, CA 92121-2706; Benjamin M. Goodwin, Jr., President]

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                           AdaWORLD:  
                AN ENVIRONMENT TARGETING POWERPC
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DATELINE:  January 20, 1995

On December 19, 1995, Alsys announced the availability of a
powerful AdaWorld cross development environment hosted on the IBM
RISC System/6000 workstation under AIX and targeting the
PowerPC/LynxOS.  The optimized cross-compiler generates fast,
efficient code for the PowerPC architecture running under LynxOS,
a real-time POSIX-compliant UNIX operating system.  

AdaWorld incorporates the LynxOS multi-threading feature, which
ideally complements Ada's multi-tasking features.  AdaWorld maps
each Ada task on a LynxOS thread so that task blocks waiting for
resources do not affect other tasks, even when the task calls a
blocking service written in another language.  This procedure helps
deliver maximum performance and greatly simplifies application
architecture.

For further information, contact:

Alsys, Inc.
Pat Michalowski
10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300
San Diego, CA  92121-2706
tel:  619/457-2700
fax:  619/457-2256

[Source:  Alsys, Inc. News Release]

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       RATIONAL ACQUIRES WISCONSIN-BASED OBJECT-ORIENTED 
                    SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FIRM
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DATELINE:  January 20, 1995 
 
On January 16, 1995, Rational Software Corporation announced that
it has acquired Palladio Software Corporation, a software-
engineering firm that provides tools and training for
object-oriented development.  

Palladio was the original developer of a Windows-based
object-oriented analysis and design product that Rational 
licensed and integrated with its Rational Rose technology as 
part of a joint technology and distribution agreement with 
Palladio in October 1992. Since then, the two companies have 
collaborated on the development and enhancement of the 
Rational Rose family of products. 
 
"This acquisition is a natural extension of the partnership we 
have developed with Palladio over the past two years," said 
Paul D. Levy, president and chief executive officer of 
Rational. "Palladio's software engineers have had extensive 
experience in developing and delivering object-oriented 
products and training. This agreement will enable us to take 
full advantage of this expertise as we continue to enhance and 
extend our object-technology solutions." 
 
For more information contact: 

Kara Myers, Rational Software Corporation
408/496-3891 or E-mail karam@rational.com

[Source:  Rational Software Corporation News Release]