Meantime, Cayenne Software Inc – the Waltham, Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc and Cadre Technologies Inc combine – says the LogicWorks-Rational offering lacks enterprise-level development features such as a repository which it will be happy to provide from next year. It is currently developing a repository which it will offer for use with both the Bachman GroundWorks relational database modelling tool and Cadre ObjectTeam group C++ development environment. It is based on the current ObjectTeam repository. Currently there is one for each. Cayenne says the passing of models back and forth between ERwin and Rational Rose will inevitably lead to the loss of data. Cayenne says its combined developer product will be aimed at both technical and commercial users. It is all C++ now though ObjectTeam is currently being Java-enabled. ObjectTeam is based upon the software engineering tools inherited with the acquisition of Westmount Technology BV. Cayenne recently announced it will give up a portion of its ObjectTeam installed base, those developing object applications using the Shlaer-Mellor Method, to Project Technology Inc, developer of the Shlaer-Mellor method and technology. All ObjectTeam for Shlaer-Mellor customers are to get tool support services from Project Technology which has also acquired rights to the ObjectTeam for Shlaer-Mellor technology and will develop a data migration tool called TeamPoint to migrate customers to its own BridgePoint Shlaer-Mellor Case tool. TeamPoint will be available in early 1997 free of charge to all ObjectTeam customers. Cayenne says that in the face of the forthcoming combined Universal Modelling Language for object-oriented analysis and design the Shlaer-Mellor product will be a non-growth market and it will UML-enable Object Team instead. Cayenne claims 2,000 ObjectTeam for Shlaer-Mellor customers.
