NAME:

OpenUI, v3.1

 

VENDOR:

Open Software Associates

20 Trafalgar Square, 5th Floor

Nashua, NH 03063

(800) 441-4330 (voice)

(603) 886-4330 (voice)

(603) 598-6877 (fax)

Email: info@osa.com

WWW: http://www.osa.com.au/

 

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

This interface supports C, Pascal, (ish) COBOL, and Ada. Not only is the C type safe for C++, but they're willing to supply a native C++ API if there's enough demand. The software comes with a WYSIWYG GUI builder. They also have a "platform pack", a less-expensive, de-featured package which allows software developed with OpenUI to be ported to other platforms. Their code supports stand-alone as well as client (GUI) / server (Logic) application development. A client/server application can be developed in stand-alone mode. When you purchase the product, you receive 90 days of fax and e-mail support. Purchased support adds-in phone access as well as product updates. In addition to GUI portability, OpenUI provides TCP/IP and DecNet support.

 

COMMENTS:

Open Software Associates have rewritten their integrated development environment (IDE). Open Software Associates has been around since 1990.

 

WHAT THE USERS SAY:

Says one user, "Support is brilliant, among the best I have ever seen in the computer industry. Comes with a [GUI] builder, allows generation of new GUI classes using a concept of soft-classes (not quite inheritance, but fairly powerful). Good for when multi- platform support is needed, but not as powerful as OI for a single GUI application. They will port to other hardware fairly quickly. We got the SUN port within a month." Problems include "no file, printing or memory management support", according to Richard Chimera (carm@cs.umd.edu -- from a report "Evaluation of Platform Independent Interface Builders", dated March 1993).