Platinum Technology Inc has announced the first phase of an integration program that will lead to its object-oriented tools coming together in Paradigm Plus, ObjectPro and Platinum Process Continuum. Paradigm Plus is an object-oriented design and analysis tool that the Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois company acquired with Protosoft Inc late last year. It supports the POEMS Platinum Enterprise Component Modeling software development strategy, generating code in the Java, C++, Ada, Smalltalk, Power-Builder and Forte languages. It can also reverse-engineer C++, Smalltalk and PowerBuilder and publish model components on the World Wide Web as HyperText Mark-up Language documents. ObjectPro is Platinum’s proprietary language application construction tool, which is said to aid the re-use of objects by providing a run-time environment for testing, debugging and deploying applications. And Platinum Process Continuum is the process and project management tool. They come under the umbrella of Platinum’s Application Lifestyle Solutions division. The division’s director of marketing, Linda Friezsche, claimed the company was ahead of schedule with its object-oriented integration program. Next up is the integration of the AionDS construction tools and Final Exam three-tier testing tool. The rest of the business, greatly expanded since its many acquisitions over the last couple of years are systems management, databases, data warehouses and business intelligence. Paradigm Plus and ObjectPro are available now bundled for $5,600. ObjectPro currently supports Windows 3.1, Windows95 and NT and SunSoft Inc’s Solaris and Paradigm Plus 3.01 supports those minus Windows95. Support for that will be added, along with SunOS, HP- UX, OS/2 Warp, and Irix later this quarter.
