As well as its promised Windows NT implementation, Transarc Corp last week unveiled DE-Lite at its Decorum ’95 bash in La Jolla, California. DE-Lite is a cut-down Distributed Computing Environment client intended for use on Personal Digital Assistants, personal computers and Macintoshes used in banking, inventory control and point-of-sale retail systems, the company says. A DE-Lite client can access Distributed Computing Environment and Encina services through a Computing Environment server running DE-Lite gateway software. DE-Lite is up on Windows 3.1 clients with Windows NT and Windows95 versions expected. The gateway software runs under Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp and SunSoft Inc Unixes. DE-Lite, now in beta, lacks large chunks of Distributed Computing Environment-like security, support for nested transactions and full Distributed Computing Environment and Encina application programming interfaces. Meantime, Gradient Technology Inc’s full Distributed Computing Environment-on-personal computer implementation is now shipping and is available from Transarc through an agreement its parent IBM has struck with Gradient. A developers kit is $700; run-time licences are $65 for the first, and $55 thereafter. Two developers kits and 10 run-time licences are bundled for $1,700. In other Transarc-related news, New York city-based second generation application developer Magna Software Corp also announced the promised Encina version of its Magna X environment (CI No 2,498). An early entry programme begins on April 1 at from $20,000. And JYACC Inc has added an Encina interface to its JAM 6.1 development system, calling it JAM/TPi, which costs from $2,600 for Windows, $7,800 for Unix clients, and $8,000 for the server.
