In an extremely low profile manner Digital Equipment Corp has launched its extensively previewed CDD/Repository, taking it from the realm of the CDD/Plus data dictionary under VMS into the world of distributed, multi-vendor software engineering that embraces VMS and Ultrix courtesy of DEC and the vendor world beyond thanks to third-party offerings. The object-oriented ATIS – A Tools Integrating Standard – interface to CDD/Repository, that is still being considered as an Information Resource Dictionary System component, is being used by 16 third parties such as Cognos Inc, Information Builders Inc, Andersen Consulting and SD-Scicon Plc that want to integrate their tools tightlywith CDD/Repository. DEC has also published its Repository Information Model that describes the objects in the repository and the relationships among these objects – the model has been developed with collaboration from third parties. Other products developed to take advantage of CDD/Repository include CDD/Administrator providing a graphical user interface for repository administrators; DECset v.11, which is the next generation VAXset product, now engineered for Ultrix systems as well and incorporating Application Control Architecture services – a gateway between the Architecture and Hewlett-Packard Co’s Distributed Object Management Facility is currently being developed at the Object Management Group. Other products include a project management tool, DECplan, for the multi-user environment and several packaged Cohesion applications including Cohesion for Rapid Development, Cohesion for TP Development and Cohesion for IBM Cross-Development. DEC is in active negotiations with Bourne End, Buckinghamshire-based Software One Ltd to ensure that CDD/Repository will be able to co-exist with IBM’s Repository – whenever it arrives.
