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News and New Product Briefs (August 6, 1999)
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Informix announces Centaur analytical-processing server
Informix introduced the Informix Internet Foundation.2000 (IIF), formerly known as Centaur, its Internet-centric online analytical-processing object relational database server (OLAP). It also announced the migration step to Centaur, the Informix Dynamic Server.2000 OLTP server (IDS).
According to Informix Marketing Manager Randy Brasche, "Foundation.2000 is IDS plus Internet data management, including Java and COM/ActiveX support in the database core."
IIF will include J/Foundation, Informix's Java extensions; the Excalibur and Web DataBlades designed for text search and Web publishing; a COM adapter; and a new product, Informix Office Connect, which lets users send data from Foundation.2000 to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. According to some analysts, this version of IIF is a transitioning version from the company's DataBlade technology (which didn't catch on with third parties as well as Informix hoped) to a Java one.
Informix plans to ship the server in August 1999. The Informix Dynamic Server.2000 costs ,500 per seat (though it is free for existing customers of Dynamic Server 7.x/9.x). The Informix Internet Foundation Server.2000 will cost ,800 per seat through August 2000; the price then moves up to ,400 per user.
http://www.informix.com/iif2000/
IBM EADP extends VisualAge Persistence Builder
IBM alphaWorks announced EADP, software that includes extensions to VisualAge Java Persistence Builder, providing model-driven support for functions needed to create a complete business application.
For all Java platforms, EADP provides the tools to help applications reconnect the data that RDBs tend to scatter to disparate tables and fields. It offers complex object support for defining such complex object relationships as order-to-line-item or item-to-bill-of-material. These relationships can be modeled in Persistence Builder as ruler-to-subobject relationships. EADP provides for presentation and update of the complex object, including support for cascaded complex object actions (copy and delete, and promote under version control), and automatic provision of focal data on subobject lists.
EADP also supports the presentation of information based on combining or retrieving data from various tables, allowing normalized data (such as a customer name) to be presented where it is useful (within an order where it is linked by customer number).
EADP computed column support allows the addition of computed fields (such as the cost of a line item calculated as unit price times quantity); summary column support works with complex object support to provide summary data (such as the total cost of an order). The software also provides centralized control of the external names of data elements and objects.
EADP offers mechanisms to isolate business logic from the rest of the application, and to make business rules easy to identify and alter. It allows users to define error conditions, error rules, and error messages. Other features of EADP include:
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