DEC has taken delivery of the first revs of DECMessageQ and BEA ObjectBroker from new owner BEA Systems Inc, and has put them together with other application and migration services in a new release of its AllConnect package of Unix and NT co-existence and migration tools. DEC says the suite enables customers to develop a single program and deploy it in both environments. In addition to the asynchronous messaging and object request broker products DEC will be marketing the BEA Tuxedo OLTP monitor BEA has taken over from its own Novell Inc. DEC says open transaction monitor- style middleware ensures the middleware is interoperable between Unix and NT on its Alpha boxes. There are new application connectivity services for creating distributed applications and integrating existing applications into mixed Unix and NT environments using the middleware. Migration services enable customers to move Unix applications to NT; and application services are designed specifically for developing NT software. AllConnect was introduced late last year following research which DEC claimed showed that more than 90% of all organizations that use both Unix and NT will be integrating them at some point. No prices.
