Cupertino, California-based Symantec Corp has merged its C++ division with its client-server development group to establish one unit, development tools. The merger presages plans to merge Symantec C++ with Enterprise Developer, the company’s application development tool, and to have beneath this mix SCALE, Scalable Architecture for Large Enterprise, the repository, data links and transaction processor that Symantec developed for Enterprise Developer. Symantec says users are looking for the robustness of third generation languages with the ease of use offered by fourth generation ones. First products should appear in the first half of next year. Also expected at that time is a server version of SCALE, designed to give central control of transactions executed against the server by client applications. Symantec is multithreading SCALE and adding a Remote Procedure Call layer to do this. The first server will be Windows NT.
