Cincom Systems Inc, Cincinnati, Ohio, has introduced its long-promised Total FrameWork application development environment, touted as an object-oriented system enabling users to build software from re-usable components. The workflow, assembly and persistence frameworks use technologies from UniSQL Corp and VMark Software Inc and are designed to integrate with Corba-compliant object request brokers. Component prices start at $3,200, integrated packages start at $7,000. The company believes it will take up to two years to create a significant market for Total FrameWork; it claims 20 users so far, 12 of them new Cincom wins. Cincom, best known for its mainframe database and tool set, is now organised into three divisions: document solutions (roughly 10% of its business); the advanced technology group – formerly two separate application development and database groups for its SupraServer relational database and Mantis tools, each representing 30% of the company’s business; and business control (manufacturing and financial), also 30% of turnover.
