Visigenic Software Inc yesterday spelled out some of the plans it has for its eponymous VisiBroker object request broker technologies saying it will add a slew of supporting services to the core infrastructure which will be collectively known as Visigenic Distributed Application Platform architecture. VisiBroker 3.0 including support for SSL Secure Sockets Layer, is due later this quarter. VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service 1.0 will beta in the fourth quarter and ship in the first quarter of 1998. VisiBroker Security Service, a full implementation of Corba Security Service with authentication, authorization, encryption, secure invocation, auditing and administration is due to be released in two phases, the first of which is due by year- end in conjunction with an unnamed partner. VisiBroker Manager graphical management tools will begin to ship this quarter. They include a location service browser which displays all objects known by the VisiBroker smart agent; an interface repository browser, implementation repository browser; naming service manager; performance monitor; and partitioning manager. VisiBroker Events and Naming Services will be upgraded to support VisiBroker 3.0 this quarter; asynchronous messaging is expected by the middle of 1998; VisiBroker Trader service for Wall Street is due in the fourth quarter and has been developed in conjunction with an unnamed partner; VisiBroker Integration Service is a standalone version of the Integrated Transaction Service and is due by the middle of next year; VisiBroker Data Access Service is a standalone version of the Data Channel Access technology for ODBC and JDBC database connectivity and is due by the middle of 1998. The company claims it did $1m on VisiBroker in 1996 out of $5.6m revenue and did $9.5m on it in its 1997 fiscal which came in at $17m. It’s looking at $30m from the ORB work in 1998.
