Ilog SA, the French object-oriented tools provider, has introduced Ilog Talk, which it is calling a dynamic object-oriented language that integrates C and C++ object libraries. The product provides a transparent integration of C and C++ code, including all Posix functionality, and an easy-to-learn programming interface. It is available on Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc Unix systems and costs approximately $3,500 for a developer’s licence. Ilog has also developed a Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant object request broker that supports both Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows environments, and plans to announce it in the middle of this month. Ilog, which is based in Paris, has changed the end of its fiscal year to June 1 from December 31, to bring it in line with that of its US operation. It is expected to release its financial results in July. Ilog also announced distribution agreements with Decis SA in Belgium and Nexus GmbH in Germany and Austria. Software and systems integrator Decis will distribute constraints-programming tool Ilog Solver and Ilog Schedule, while Nexus will distribute all of the Ilog components.
