Now re-cast as a second generation application development company, Neuron Data Inc, Mountain View, California, is touting version 2.0 of its Elements Environment offering for object and Internet-intranet development. The 2.0 release includes InterOperable Objects, Web Element, Distributed Messaging Element, Data Access Element, Open Interface Element and Intelligent Rules Element modules. Neuron Data objects, including graphical user interfaces, business rules, data access and Web objects can now be accessed from Visual Basic, Java and C/C++ applications. The company says third-party object servers can be integrated for use with Elements 2.0 using its Visual Basic-alike OOScript language, enabling developers to embed Elements, Object Linking & Embedding, Corba and Web objects in the same application. A 2.0 software developers kit will be up under Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT and Windows95 this month with an OLE interoperable object driver. Corba and Java support will follow in a later version. Production versions are due by the year-end from $9,600. OS/2, Mac OS and other Unix versions are planned.
