Perennial Software is shipping the Perennial Document Librarian (PDL), a document-management program built on NEXT-STEP's Indexing Kit. The $895 software features a storage library for organizing, accessing, and tracking documents such as spreadsheets, text files, sound files, and images. Users are automatically notified of document revisions by e-mail. Perennial Software: 415/681-9944.
MIDIapolis Systems has changed its name to Ciusa (Creative Imagineering America). Ciusa will still compete in the MIDI, sound, and music markets, and will focus on NEXTSTEP applications; upgrades and fat-binary versions of Ciusa products were scheduled to ship in July. DateWise 2.01, the fat-binary version of Ciusa's calendaring app, was scheduled to have shipped on July 30. Ciusa: 612/ 822-1604.
Metrosoft announced in July MetroSuction, a freeware utility for examining and removing support for different hardware architectures in fat-binary files, freeing up disk space on homogenous networks. MetroSuction is available via anonymous FTP at sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu. Metrosoft: 619/ 488-9411.
Xanthus International has started beta testing of two new products: ServiceBuilder, an application for developing NEXTSTEP services using its scripting language; and DialogBuilder, an application for developing alert panels and forms to be used in other Xanthus applications with a scripting language (currently Questor, Celebro, and ServiceBuilder). Both apps require the final release of NEXTSTEP 3.1. Xanthus: 46/8/612-8995.
Cable TV!, NEXTSTEP cable-distribution-management software from Le Mans, France-based Assistance Ingenierie Informatique, was chosen by Decision Micro magazine as one of the ten best applications developed in France in 1992. The app, designed to organize, manage, and maintain information flow in large organizations, is fully customizable for a variety of customer bases. AII: 33/43/ 23.66.43.
Conextions is offering enhanced versions of its 3270Vision and 5250Vision terminal emulators on NEXTSTEP-for-Intel systems. The $595 software provides IBM connectivity via SNA and TCP/IP networks and includes a graphical keyboard editor, batch-job inspection capabilities, and unattended batch-file transfer. Conextions: 508/689-3570.
Aurora Software released in July LoadEye 1.1, software for monitoring system usage. The $49 app displays updated histograms of system loads of networks with both black and white hardware. It is available directly from Aurora Software, as well as various NeXT distributors, VARs, and dealers. Aurora Software: 608/231-3679.
Black & White Software has re-duced the price on all modems and modem packages. B&W's NXFax software, with a ZyXEL U-1496E modem and cable, is priced at $500, down from the original price of $600. NXFax alone remains at $135. Black & White Software: 802/496-8500.