NAME:

NuTCRACKER X/SDK

 

VENDOR:

DataFocus, Inc.

12450 Fair Lakes Circle, Suite 400

Fairfax, VA 22033

(800) 637-8034 (voice)

(703) 818-1532 (fax)

 

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

NuTCRACKER is an implementation of the Motif API (as well as some of the standard Unix calls) under Windows/NT. In addition, they provide a non-X Windows SDK which allows curses users to port their code (I don't know if this ports to Windows or an MS-DOS window running curses). They have an internal deployment seat (called the X/OE) which costs $495. For outside distribution, there's a $5K/100 seats or a $20K buy out price tag. Besides GUI portability, NuTCRACKER also supports Unix process control, Unix IPC mechanisms (i.e., shared memory, named pipes, BSD sockets, and semaphores) as well as some of Unix's security features.

 

SUPPORT:

Each purchase (or evaluation copy) of NuTCRACKER comes with 30 days of free support via telephone, fax, or e-mail. After that, you can purchase Schedule A support (voice, fax, and e-mail with a maximum 24 hour response time) for $2000/year or the Schedule B support (fax and e-mail only with a 48 hour maximum response time) for $500/year.

 

FUTURE PLANS:

Their next release will support Daytona and the VC++ 2.0 compiler. They have committed to supporting Windows 95 (was Chicago) and Windows NT on the PowerPC.