Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has become the first non-US company to adopt Hewlett-Packard Co’s SoftBench computer-aided software engineering environment. SoftBench is already licensed by Control Data Systems Inc, IBM Corp and Informix Inc. Siemens has licensed SoftBench as it is incorporated in the Toolbus environment from Informix; Encapsulator, a tool for adding software products to the SoftBench and Tool bus environment for integration of tools supplied by independent software vendors or users; and the C++ Developer software construction and browsing tool used for object-oriented programming in C++. Siemens is to incorporate SoftBench in its Domino software engineering environment which brings together process techniques, methods and design, development, testing and maintenance tools.
