Hewlett-Packard Co has taken its SoftBench software development environment up to release 3.2, which adds the SoftBench Message Connector mouse-driven task-automation tool – and announced that SoftBench 3.2 will be available under the Solaris 2.1 operating system from SunSoft Inc. SoftBench Message Connector will be bundled with SoftBench 3.2 for Solaris 2.1, HP-UX and SunOS 4.1.X operating systems and is available with the SoftBench Framework. Other new capabilities for Solaris 2.1 include the Distributed Debugger Environment and embedded SQL support to access databases in C or C++. SoftBench 3.2 for C is $2,300, for C++, $4,500.
