As anticipated, Compagnie des Machines Bull SA will begin marketing Ilog SA’s constraint-based Ilog Solver programming system fused with its own Charme Object system as Bull Solver. Already previewed in Europe, and as promised at that time, Mountain View, California-based Ilog has also announced its Ilog Schedule C++ add-on to Solver for scheduling application development tasks. Schedule has three types of user-definable resources: one for single entities, such as an individual; multiple entities such as groups; and entities defined by physical state, such as oven temperature. Ilog sees corporate companies using Schedule for allocating personnel; system integrators developing customised applications and independent software vendors. Ilog Schedule is up under Digital Equipment Corp, Sun Microsystems Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co, Silicon Graphics Inc and IBM Corp Unixes and on Windows personal computers, from $10,000 on workstations, $6,500 on personal computers. Ilog Solver is $20,000 on workstations, $13,000 on personal computers.
