Darmstadt, Germany-based Software AG is do a version of its software for Apple Computer Inc’s A/UX Unix multi-user server, Workgroup Server 95. Software AG is teaming with the Cupertino company to collaborate on development of Apple’s Vital Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Lifecycle client-server architecture, and jointly market a Vital/Entire starter kit so customers can write Apple applications that interface with mainframes. Entire is a suite of middleware software that is designed to bridge mainframe applications and highly distributed networks, and under the agreement, Apple plans to collaborate with Software AG on the development of Vital and its evolution as a comprehensive blueprint for client-server systems and to ensure that future server technologies can be tuned to maximise performance. And Software AG will incorporate AppleEvents in its Entire Broker Gateway product so as to extend the abilities of Macintosh personal computers and Apple Workgroup Servers to access enterprise servers that are based on IBM’s Advanced Program-to-Program Communications, Digital Equipment Corp’s Network Applications Support, the Open Software Foundations’s Unix Distributed Computing Environment, and Microsoft Corp’s Distributed Data Exchange and Object Linking & Embedding; first products are expected in 1994.
