Reston, Virginia-based Visix Software Inc has introduced a Galaxy release 2.5 which includes a Visual Datatag Editor for point and click programming of common functions; a Datatag Iterator that can iterate the transfer of functions and resource files between different components of Galaxy’s Distributed Application Services; a new set of distributed help services for building a single, network-based help engine; and an enhanced version of the Galaxy print manager which can encapsulate distributed print sessions. There is some additional support for shared libraries, but this support is not available on Macintosh, Ultrix or SunOS C++. There is also a new combo box, new notebook icon and a floating window for the Macintosh, plus performance tuning features. Galaxy is now up on 48 systems; new additions are the Power Mac and OpenVMS on Alpha RISC. The C version is from $9,600, C++ from $12,000, both per developer, with no run-time licences.
