Component-based modeling tools company Select Software Tools Inc has released version six of its component modeling toolset, Select Enterprise. The Irvine, California company has had a rocky six months financially-speaking, with poor 1997 fourth quarter results, restated third quarter numbers that led to the resignation of the CFO and COO Jerry Davison and worse than- expected first quarter figures released at the end of April. Still, the company feels its revenue growth rate is sufficient and expects this new release to give it a boost towards profitability some time this year. New this time is full 32-bit ‘modal screen’ technology, which enables the user interface to be split between multiple developers and automatically refresh itself when one has changed something that affects the others. The component manager is now fully integrated into Enterprise. A version of the component manager for Microsoft Corp’s repository has already been released, as has one supporting Softlab’s Enabler object repository. Select is promising one supporting Unisys Corp’s UREP repository in the next quarter. This version also introduces code synchronization, which provides a single view of models, with the design on the left and code on the right. Developers are given the option to either reverse- engineer the code back to the design to make changes, or to change the design, and regenerate the code. The tool then synchronizes the code following the changes. The company has also released Select Enterprise for Java, which includes a Java code generator that will be used by IBM Corp in its San Francisco project. Brian Morrow, the company’s VP component business development said the Java version is generic at the moment, and while he is mindful of the various Java tools out there, such as Visual J++, JBuilder, Cafe and so on, the company is not committed to doing separate version of Select Enterprise for each tool yet. Select Enterprise v6 costs $2,000 and the specialist versions for Java, Visual Basic, Forte and so on, go for $3,000. The company is still looking for a replacement for Davison, who resigned in March. It said it would just be looking to fill the CFO role. Select’s shares closed down $0.625 at $4.75.
