Transarc Corp, Pittsburgh is putting its Encina transaction processing monitor up under Windows to enable business to include personal computers within their distributed computing models. The initial development work was done by Intel Corp, which wants to see an iAPX-86 server implementation too. The product is built on Gradient Technologies Inc’s PC-DCE, and Windows-based Encina clients can be created from Visual Basic, Visual C++, PowerBuilder and JYACC JAM. Run-time licences cost $100, development kits $1,000. Transarc expects to do between $20m and $22m of business this year, about double what it did last time around. Some 50% of sales are direct, the rest coming from its OEM deals with the likes of Digital Equipment Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp, Hitachi Ltd, NEC Corp, Stratus Computer Inc and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG. Mitsubishi Electric Corp is expected on board soon. The firm claims 200 licensees of its DCE implementations, 100 on Encina and is readying version 3.0 of the DCE Distributed File System for the summer.
