Edison, New Jersey-based Four Seasons Software Inc has launched version 5.0 of its Supernova Enterprise proprietary language, an application development tool the company claims uniquely enables developers to run application code on different systems without modification or recompilation of code for target systems. Supernova can reassign code to different systems either by user intervention, or from within the application. Application partitioning features enable the user to decide where to install the application (client-only, server-only, or partitioned) along with forward and reverse distribution. Remote loading and purging of partitions and optimised compressed and encrypted communication for logic and data are featured. Because Supernova code runs unmodified on all supported systems, the application developer or system manager does not need to decide which target systems various partitions of an application will be processed, the company claims. Prices go from $1,000 to $6,000 per developer in May. Supernova is up under most Unixes, Windows 3.1, NT and OpenVMS with an OS/2 version in the wings.
