A new Boston-based company called ObjectSoft Corp has been formed by David Sarna and George Febish to develop and market both consumer and business computer programs implementing the concept of soft-links. ObjectSoft’s first product is called Relate and incorporates a three-dimensional, electronic Rolodex MS-DOS program enabling end-users to form multiple, dynamic soft links to use the multi-tasking features in Windows 3.0. Users can soft-staple any number of documents to any entry in the electronic phone book. Working in any application, they can search the Rolodex, find documents that have been electronically stapled and bring up any document – and its application – with one keystroke. A document can also be stapled to any MS-DOS or Windows program. For example, using a suitable terminal emulator, a user can staple correspondence stored on a personal computer to data in a mainframe application. Additionally, since the soft link itself is an object, multiple users can reference the same link, and links can be made by one or more users with the same original document. Applications communicate with Relate via Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Exchange for native Windows applications. The product will ship in November. The introductory price is $149 – $495 for the developer’s version.
