Note: There are TWO releases here: METROWERKS TO PROVIDE TOOLS FOR MICROWARE'S OS-9 FAMILY OF REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE METROWERKS ANNOUNCES EMBEDDED SYSTEMS TOOLS STRATEGYdent and chief executive officer of Microware Systems Corp. "This dramatic reduction in cost marks a sea change in the embedded tools industry." Support for OS-9 will be provided through a new series of development tools announced today in a separate release, entitled CodeWarrior for Embedded Systems. 68K and PowerPC versions of the product, hosted on both Mac OS and Windows, will begin shipping later this year at a suggested retail price of $499. Now, embedded systems developers around the world can benefit from an order of magnitude in savings for full-featured, fully-integrated embedded tools (with C/C++ source-level debugging support), widespread availability, plus a choice of platforms from which to work. About Microware Microware's mission is to provide dependable intelligence for smart...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Purity Software, Inc. 1016 Mopac Circle, Suite 101 Austin, TX 78746 +1.512.328.2288 FAX +1.512.328.2688 http://www.purity.com/ info@purity.com Austin, TX --Purity Software, Inc. announced today that it is now shipping WebSiphon, its web-based scripting tool for Macintosh computers. WebSiphon is one of the most anticipated new CGI (Common Gateway Interface) products for Macintosh webmasters delivering a complete authoring tool for revolutionary sites. "Early reactions from those who have seen WebSiphon in action have been overwhelming. It is quite obvious that the Macintosh web community has been waiting for a powerful product such as this for quite some time. We created this tool to help fill that void and add to the Mac's Internet arsenal." said Nathan Nunn, Purity Software's president. WebSiphon allows users to embed a real scripting language, SiphonScript, directly into their HTML pages. In addition, WebSiphon includes Purity's database server, Verona, a low...

Sun And Apple Announce Alliance Today Apple and Sun will join together at the InterOp show in Atlanta to announce a far-reaching strategic alliance. It is our common goal to provide powerful, flexible and media-rich Internet solutions that combine Sun's expertise in high-performance networking and Apple's desktop ease of use and multimedia leadership. As part of this alliance, we will work together with Sun to leverage the traditional strengths of our respective companies -- Sun's leadership position in the enterprise Internet/intranet server area and their industry-leading Java technologies, and Apple's legacy in ease of use and multimedia technologies, with QuickTime, the OpenDoc developer framework and Open Transport networking technology. Today's announcement focuses on several major areas where we will work together to provide users the industry's best combination of Internet/intranet server and client offerings . More detail is provided in the press release (http://product....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Neil Ticktin Publisher MacTech Magazine 805-494-9797 publisher@mactech.com http://www.mactech.com MACTECH ANNOUNCES NEW EDITORIAL STAFF & EXPANDED EDITORIAL SUPPORT Westlake Village, Calif. -- September 20, 1996 -- Xplain Corporation, the publisher of MacTech(tm) Magazine, announced today the addition of new staff and support for it's editorial board. Over the past several years, a couple of things have changed to warrant a change at the magazine. "First, the Macintosh has more technology inside it than ever before. Second, the magazine has grown to a point that, it's time to once again revise it's editorial approach." said Neil Ticktin, Publisher of MacTech Magazine. To that end, MacTech has added a separate Editor-in-Chief position, expanded the breadth of Contributing Editors, and added an Editorial Advisory Board for the magazine. Each of these changes is targeting a specific editorial need, and together allows MacTech to provide even better...

Akimbo Systems Ships Globetrotter Web Publisher Third-Generation Web Site Publishing Product Allows Users to Publish as Quickly as They Can Write Web Site: http://www.akimbo.com/globetrotter See also previous announcements: Akimbo Systems Announces Globetrotter Web Publisher http://www.akimbo.com/press_releases/globetrotter_announced.html User Groups to Get Free Copies of Globetrotter Web Publisher http://www.akimbo.com/press_releases/user_group_program.html (Somerville, MA - September 11th, 1996) Akimbo Systems announced today that it is now shipping its Globetrotter Web Publisher package for Mac OS computers, the first third-generation web publishing product. Globetrotter, one of the "MacWEEK HOT Picks" from the August MacWorld Expo, has been anxiously awaited by web publishers and is shipping about a month ahead of schedule. Effective immediately, users may get complete information about the product and purchase it on the company's web...

General Magic Ships Internet Developer's Kit For Magic Cap Platform Industry-Leading Tools Ease Development of Internet Applications for Handheld Devices SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- General Magic (Nasdaq: GMGC) today shipped the Magic Internet Kit, software tools that enable developers to more quickly create Internet, intranet, and other communicating applications for handheld communicators such as the Sony Magic Link PIC-2000 or the Envoy 150 Wireless Communicator from Motorola. The kit consists of an object framework which allows easier and faster development of applications that communicate via a variety of protocols, including the Internet standard TCP/IP, the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) used by most Internet service providers, or the Ethernet protocol. The Magic Internet Kit is available now via General Magic's Web site http://www.genmagic.com/Develop/MagicCap/Internet/ and is included in the CodeWarrior 10 CD-ROM...

Celebrate Labor Day the DevDepot way! Take it easy, sleep in, get some sun (where applicable), and don't forget to check out the DevDepot labor day sale. Everything's been discounted 10% off the already low prices... so if you thought our prices were good... well, now they're 10% BETTER! (Sale ends September 6th at midnight) Log on to our Web site now, and get the deal of the year on a dizzying selection of Developer tools -- everything from the latest Java books to brand new offerings from Metrowerks, Symantec, Bare Bones, Natural Intelligence, MacTech(tm) and many more. To qualify for the 10% discount, you only need to order by e-mail, fax, or our convenient web site. That's it -- all orders placed in one of these ways AUTOMATICALLY qualifies (discount is done when the order is processed by DevDepot staff). (Due to the overwhelming response expected, we can't take phone orders at the discount price. If you need to speak to us by phone, send us an e-mail with your phone number and we...

For Immediate Release -------------------------------------------------------------- M e d i a B u l l e t i n -------------------------------------------------------------- Tools Plus Tames the Toolbox ```````````````````````````` OAKVILLE, Ontario--August 16, 1996--Macintosh developers have reason to celebrate as Water's Edge Software unveils version 3.1 of Tools Plus application development libraries. The newest edition now facilitates resource-based programming, a boon for Macintosh developers who have been toiling with the convoluted and limited Dialog Manager since the Macintosh originally debuted in 1984. The founding principle of Tools Plus is to let developers create any part of their application's user interface with a single line of simple C, C++ or Pascal code. Once created, these elements work without the need for support code, resource templates or event management. Identical benefits now extend to developers who, out of preference or necessity,...

Formation of Macintosh Internet Developers Association (MIDAS) Announced at MacWorld Group to Act as Clearinghouse for Macintosh Internet Client, Content and Server Standards Boston, MA August 7, 1996 --MacWorld-- A consortium of Internet software developers for the Macintosh, representing the entire spectrum of commercial, independent, and educational developers, announced the formation of the Macintosh Internet Developers' Association (MIDAS) at MacWorld Boston. Among the members of MIDAS are Akimbo Systems, Aladdin Systems, Apple Computer, Inc., BareBones Software, Inc., ClearWay Technologies, Cornell University, InterCon Systems, Maxum Development, Microsoft Corporation, Netscape Communications Corporation, Purity Software, ResNova Software, Stairways Software, the StarNine division of Quarterdeck Corporation, and Userland Software. THE CHARTER The charter of MIDAS calls for a forum in which Macintosh developers devise and refine standards and techniques for Mac-based Internet...

MAXUM DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCES UPGRADE TO PAGESENTRY - NOW MONITORING ALL INTERNET SERVERS MacWorld, Boston, Massachusetts, August 7, 1996 - Maxum Development Corporation, a leading developer of Macintosh Web server add-on tools, announces an upgrade to PageSentry, the Internet server monitor which allows network administrators to maintain reliable sites on the Internet. In addition to Web site monitoring, the latest version, PageSentry 2.0, now provides monitoring for FTP, SMTP (e-mail), DNS, and Telnet services as well. PageSentry uses these high-level client services to test the whole server, not just the low-level networking functions. "PageSentry 2.0 has been almost a complete rewrite of the earlier versions," says Michael Clark, Director of Engineering for Maxum Development. "We have tried to anticipate all possible concerns of the system administrator, including a more intuitive interface and tremendous flexibility in configuration." Providing visitors with reliable seven days a...

MAXUM DEVELOPMENT SHIPS UPGRADES TO POPULAR WEB TOOLS WITH SUPPORT FOR WEBSTAR PLUG-INS MacWorld, Boston, Massachusetts, August 7, 1996 - Maxum Development Corporation, a leading developer of Macintosh Web server tools, announced upgrades to two of its popular Web server tools, NetCloak and WebLock. The key feature of these new versions, NetCloak 2.1 and WebLock 1.1, is support for Quarterdeck's WebSTAR Plug-In architecture. Both products now support the W*API (WebSTAR Application Program Interface) and offer substantially improved performance over CGI (Common Gateway Interface) versions. Betas for both products have been available for downloading since the day of the W*API announcement. Also, both products now provide tighter integration and stability, and maintenance and configuration are easier than ever before. "Maxum was the first commercial developer to announce support for the W*API standard and their results are awesome. NetCloak is the perfect example of a Web server add-...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Cynthia Fray Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4758 cynthia@metrowerks.com METROWERKS ANNOUNCES CORPORATE REORGANIZATION Growth and Expanding Product Line Leads to Establishment of Japanese and Silicon Valley Offices and Company Management Additions AUSTIN, Texas-August 6, 1996- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ:MTWKF, TSE/MSE: MWK) today announced a new corporate organization. Since January, 1994, Metrowerks has become the leading vendor of MacOS-hosted programming tools in the world, and in the past 12 months, the company has announced new products for the embedded systems and Windows95/NT markets. In order to capitalize on these new market opportunities, Metrowerks will open two new offices, in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, and expand and realign its senior management team. Given the role of the major Japanese consumer electronics companies in the embedded systems market and the fact that over 10% of the company's current registered user base is in Japan, Metrowerks...

Mark your calendar for WebEdge 4 !! WebEdge, Inc. will continue it's series of conferences for Macintosh Web Developers and Webmasters on September 9-11, 1996 in Austin, Texas. In tradition with past conferences, WebEdge 4 will bring the newest and latest in web technologies to those wanting to further enhance their knowledge of development tools available. Presenting these ideas will be some of the world's leading Macintosh experts. WebEdge IV will be a three day conference that will bring together many of the top WebMaster and Web Developers for classes and third party demonstrations of Macintosh World Wide Web technologies. Special emphasis this year will be on "solution-oriented" sessions with over 75 PowerMacs being brought in for hands-on sessions as well as a "hack room" made readily accessible throughout the conference. Classroom sessions, product demonstrations, panel discussions, and a vendor fair will also be included in the agenda. Finally, the schedule has been...

For Immediate Release **2.0 Release on Schedule** Vancouver, Washington DataPak Software's (DSI) popular cross-platform text control, PAIGE, is on schedule for a 2.0 release in early July. Used by developers to add powerful text processing features, such as styles, tabs, paragraph formatting, multiple columns, etc., the 2.0 version promises to deliver several new features that have been requested by licensed users of the technology. The new import/export feature ships with a RTF translator and gives clients the ability to build their own translators for HTML, SGML or proprietary standards like MS Word, WordPerfect, MacWrite, etc.. Unicode compatibility for software localization, drag and drop, full MFC and OLE support are all new with this release. In addition PAIGE will ship on CD and will include a fully searchable electronic version of the product documentation. A beta version of the 2.0 release was distributed to several source code clients in early May for testing. "So far...

For Immediate Release From: Delta Tech Inc. Contact: Dr. Stephen Bryen Voice: (301) 588-4683 Fax: (301) 587-9200 Email: deltaone@radix.net New Software Will Help Speed Transactions on the Internet A new software from Israel will help speed transaction on the Internet by making it faster and easier to update programs, pictures, databases and other files. Call Update It! the software works in a different way than traditional compression. Compression tries to reduce the size of a file by using algorithms that look for recurrent patterns. Update It! works by comparing an original and an updated file, and extracting the difference between the two --called the "Delta." The Delta file is sent as the update file, and when received it is combined with the original. The software can be customized. While the Update It! software engine works effectively with most files, the program can be optimized for certain applications. For example, it is in use in Israel in the...

NEWS RELEASE... For further information, contact: Shari Worthington, Executive Director (508) 755-5242 4th Annual Conference on Scientific & Engineering Applications of the Macintosh Goes Electronic MacSciTech's SEAM'97 will take place on the World Wide Web Worcester, MA. The MacSciTech Association today announced that it will host the Fourth Annual Conference on Scientific and Engineering Applications of the Macintosh (SEAM) in January 1997. Scheduled to run from January 3 to 31, 1997, this year's conference will be the first to take place electronically, via the Association's World Wide Web site, http://www.macscitech.org/. Officially dubbed, eSEAM'97, the conference will cover applications of the Macintosh in many fields of science, engineering, and medicine. Sessions will address functional and practical applications, including: Multimedia in technical presentations, Software development for scientists and engineers, Application automation with scripting, Internet in...

A side note: Both the MacTech banner ad system and the DevDepot online shopping basket are built on top of EveryWare's Tango/Butler combination... Neil ------------------------------------------------------- Press Contact: Jeff Hendry Marketing Associate 905-819-1173 ext. 262 jhendry@everyware.com EveryWare ships Butler SQL 2.0 Butler SQL, now accessible via ODBC and bundled with CLEAR:Access from Sterling Software Inc. San Jose, CA-- May 13, 1996 -- EveryWare Development Corp. announced the immediate availability of Butler SQL version 2.0, their client/server SQL database for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh. Unlike other client/server databases, which lock you into proprietary APIs and front-ends, Butler SQL is based on open-standards: the Data Access Manager (DAM), ANSI SQL and the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard. This gives users choice and flexibility when selecting front-end applications used to manage and query back-end databases. Butler SQL has been optimized for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Kathleen Quirk Powersoft 508.287.1500 kquirk@powersoft.com Robert Beauregard Lois Paul & Partners 617.238.5704 rob_beauregard@lpp.com Cynthia Fray Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4758 cynthia@metrowerks.com David Perkins Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4744 perkins@metrowerks.com POWERSOFT TO INTEGRATE METROWERKS COMPILERS WITH POWERBUILDER ENTERPRISE 5.0 FOR MACINTOSH Metrowerks to Provide Optimized Compiler Technology for Client/Server Application Development CONCORD, Mass., and AUSTIN, Texas-July 29, 1996-Powersoft(R) and Metrowerks(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/MSE: MWK) today announced an open agreement enabling Powersoft to license a special version of Metrowerks' CodeWarrior(R) C/C++ compilers and linkers. Under terms of the agreement, the tools will be shipped as shared libraries in PowerBuilder(R), thereby becoming an integral part of the PowerBuilder code generation engine for the Macintosh(R) platform. Metrowerks will supply components for 68K...

For Immediate Release Contact: Larry Luke lluke@spii.com http://www.spii.com Software Products International, Inc. 6620 Flanders Drive San Diego, CA 92121-2976 TEL: 619-450-1526 FAX: 619-450-1921 URL: http://www.spii.com SPI Announces Release Of WorldDoc Create Web Pages without HTML Editing San Diego, CA - July 26, 1996 - Software Products International, Inc. today announced the release of WorldDoc (TM), its eagerly-awaited Web page layout program. WorldDoc makes it possible for anyone to create and publish documents on the Web using its unique point-and-click interface without having to learn the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). WorldDoc is unique among Web page authoring tools because it gives users a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) view of their pages, presenting them as they will actually appear on the Web. A previous generation of tools-so-called HTML editors-generate HTML code in a text window without showing the resulting page. Users of these products are...

QKS is pleased to announce that SmalltalkAgents 2.1, a netborne update, is now available. The installer is available for downloading from our FTP site at: (ftp://ftp.qks.com//ftp/2.1update/) [If you would like to mirror the update, please drop me a note. We'd especially appreciate help mirroring this in Europe and the Pacific Rim. Our web site (http://www.qks.com) will have a list of the latest available download sites.] We'd like to highlight some of the new features included in this release. Code Fragment Manager SmalltalkAgents 2.1 now supports the Code Fragment Manager (CFM). We are excited about this important milestone for QKS and SmalltalkAgents. This feature provides direct access to native PowerPC code libraries. Not only can you more easily call code written in other languages, you can also take full advantage of the increasing variety of libraries available from Apple and third parties. In addition, QKS has also incorporated CFM-68K support. This unifies and...

As you know, you've gotten a handful of e-mails from MacDev-1 regarding Mac OS development news. The original list for MacDev-1 was seeded with press and influence makers names drawn from companies all over the community. It was never the intention to send MacDev-1 msgs to any mailing list -- that would be poor netiquette. It took us a bit to figure this one out because only one person was complaining (that we know of). But, in the end, he shed some very useful light on it being the tools-hackers address that was the recipient. That address will be removed later this morning (when I get into the office). You shouldn't receive any more MacDev-1 messages through tools-hackers -- but if you do, let us know (there must be another address). If you are interested in continuing to find out about Mac OS news, you will need to subscribe to MacDev-1 individually. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send e-mail to: macjordomo@listmail.xplain.com with sub MacDev-1 yourname in the body of the...

FOR IMMEDIATTE RELEASE For information contact: Hillel Cooperman, Natural Intelligence, (617) 876-7680 x1221, mail to: coop@natural.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cambridge, MA: To provide users more time to evaluate Roaster(tm) and provide feedback, Natural Intelligence is shipping a prerelease version of what will be Roaster Release 1, the first environment for developing in Sun(tm) Microsystems' Java(tm) programming language on the Macintosh(r), on May 13th at Apple(r)'s WorldWide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California. Owners of Developer Release 1 and those who purchase a subscription now will receive this version, called Developer Release 2, as well as Roaster Releases 1 and 2. Roaster DR2 feature set Roaster DR2 has many new additions to the DR1 environment, including: * 68K support * fully integrated browser and class tree * full AppleScript(tm) support, plus AppleScript class wizard that guides you through...

As you know, you've gotten some e-mails from MacDev-1 regarding Mac OS development news. The original list for MacDev-1 was seeded with press and influence makers names drawn from companies all over the community. It was never the intention to send MacDev-1 msgs to any mailing list -- that would be poor netiquette. We humbly apologize for this error. While this message does confirm that your list address has been removed from the list, it is possible that you will get other messages if they were sent out before now. You shouldn't receive any more MacDev-1 messages through this list -- but if you do, let us know (there must be another address). If you are interested in continuing to find out about Mac OS news, you will need to subscribe to MacDev-1 individually. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send e-mail to: macjordomo@listmail.xplain.com with sub MacDev-1 yourname in the body of the message. We thank you for your understanding in this matter -- and we hope to see you subscribe...

As you know, we launched MacDev-1 in Mid-May and you've been getting some interesting information on Macintosh Development issues, tools and announcements. But, we were not expecting the overwhelming success of the list. With now thousands of people reading MacDev-1, we came within hundreds (of subscribers) of hard limits on our server. As a result, We have recently changed the software which hosts the MacDev-1 mailing list. And thanks to the folks at StarNine/QuarterDeck (the makers of ListSTAR), we're moving forward again with this growing list. This changeover affects the commands which are used. We believe we have successfully migrated all users from the prior package. Below are some answers to questions we anticipate you may have. Remember, anyone that you know of interested in news for the Mac OS developer should subscribe to this list. Tell a friend! Put it on your web site! Thanks, Neil Ticktin MacTech Magazine publisher@mactech.com http://www.mactech.com...