IBM Corp has been rumbling uncomfortably about repositories for Unix and Waltham, Massachusetts-based Cortex Corp has leaped into the breach with Version 5.0 of its repository-based application generator CorVision, now available for Unix where the company has hitherto concentrated the product on the Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS market. CorVision Version 5.0 produces commercial applications in ANSI C source code and is designed to enable users to build client-server applications using MS-DOS or Windows-based personal computers as clients with a variety of Unix servers. The C applications generated can be executed under Unix System V.4, Santa Cruz Operation Inc Open Desktop and Unix System V/386 3.2, DEC Ultrix and OSF/1, Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP/UX, and IBM Corp’s AIX (which one, or all of them?) Version 5.0 applications are also implemented using IEEE Posix, TCP/IP, and SQL. CorVision 5.0 provides interfaces to upper CASE tools and DEC’s CDD/Repository and can access Sybase, Oracle, C-ISAM, Rdb, RMS or other data managers. CorVision 5.0 will be commercially available in July, priced on a per-user basis with $35,000 the price for a typical entry-level configuration. The company claims it has more than 1,600 user sites in the US, Europe and the Pacific region.
