Apple Computer Inc is ready to ship its CL/1 Developer’s Toolkit for the Macintosh and CL/1 Server for DEC’s VAX/VMS, the first two components of the CL/1 SQL-based communications language. CL/1 is designed to enable application developers to write Macintosh programs that access host data using a single programatic interface, regardless of the target host, network or database. CL/1 applications communicate with a CL/1 client on the Macintosh which sends the request over a supported network to a CL/1 server residing on the host, which retrieves the data and results from the target database management system, and returns it to the Macintosh application, so that familiar Macintosh applications can access remote host databases in a transparent manner. The CL/1 Server for VAX/VMS supports access to data in Informix, Ingres, Oracle, Rdb/VMS Programming and Sybase databases and costs $5,000 per CPU or cluster. CL/1 Servers for IBM’s DB2 and SQL/DS database management systems will follow in first quarter 1990. The CL/1 Developer’s Toolkit for Macintosh is a set of software components to help programmers build CL/1 support into their applications, and includes the CL/1 client and tools for developing, testing, and debugging applications; it is $700 per single use licence. Apple also announced that it will provide AppleTalk Phase 2 support for VAX/VMS with AppleTalk for VMS 2.1, due in the first quarter of 1990. Co-developed by Apple Computer and Pacer Software Inc it implements the AppleTalk network protocols under DEC’s VMS, and enables VAX/VMS systems to communicate with as many as 16m Mac nodes in a single network. It is $5,000 for a commercial licence.
