Ada IS THE COVER STORY FOR NOV '94 EDITION OF "EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING" MAGAZINE

"Ada Achieves Orbit" is the title of this month's Embedded Systems Programming Magazine. Inside the magazine one feature article tells about why Ada was chosen for a satellite system; another provides a technical discussion about Ada's advantages for reuse, prototyping, and system design.

Embedded Systems Programming Magazine is available for sale at technical bookstores or from the publisher, Miller-Freeman (Phone: 800/829-5537).

         INTEGRATED PRODUCT SUITE FOR Ada NOW AVAILABLE
      SUITE FEATURED IN RECENT I-CASE FEDERAL CONTRACT WIN!

On November 2, 1994, SunSoft, Inc. announced the availability of SunSoft WorkShop for Ada, an integrated product suite for Ada software development.

The SunSoft WorkShop is a toolset for developing advanced, performance-critical applications on UNIX platforms. It incorporates tools for individual and teams of developers to speed application development, increase software quality, and boost application performance.

"Ada developers need a high-performance set of tools for their mission-critical applications," said Jon Kannegaard, Vice President and General Manager of Developer Products at SunSoft. "SunSoft WorkShop for Ada makes it possible for Ada developers to maximize the multitasking performance speed of their applications while boosting their productivity."

The availability of SunSoft WorkShop for Ada will enable developers to easily incorporate the power of Solaris multiprocessing and multithreading (MP/MT) into their Ada applications. The new Ada version is featured in the recent Federal contract awarded to Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the I-CASE (Integrated Computer and Software Environment) award.

[Source: SunSoft News Release. November 2, 1994.]

On October 25, 1994, Rational Software Corporation and the Martin Marietta Information Group's Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) signed a comprehensive, worldwide strategic marketing alliance at the Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) trade show and conference in Portland, OR.

The ACC and Rational will market and sell both companies object-oriented analysis and design tools and services. This includes the Rational Rose family of graphical software-engineering tools, the OMTool product family, formal and workshop-style training for both the Booch method and the OMT, comprehensive mentoring and consulting expertise to guide organizations to project success, and full-scale project management and systems integration services providing complete solutions.

[Source: Rational Software Corporation News Release]

RATIONAL ADDS OMT SUPPORT TO RATIONAL ROSE

Rational Software Corporation announced that its Rational Rose family of graphical, object-oriented, software-engineering tools will be extended to support the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) developed by James Rumbaugh, et al. A prototype of the tool supporting the OMT was demonstrated at the Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) trade show and conference last week.

For more information contact:

Rational Software Corporation
2800 San Tomas Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951
Tel. (408) 496-3600 or (800) RAT-1212
Fax (408) 496-3636
E-mail product_info@rational.com

Martin Marietta Advanced Concepts Center 640 Freedom Business Center
King of Prussia, PA 19406
Tel. (610) 992-6200 or (800) 438-7246
Fax (610) 992-6299
E-mail solutions@ist.vf.ge.com

[Source: Rational Software Corporation News Release]