Pricing is based on a number of variables.ĭataChannel has announced the XML Viewer, which it calls the industry's first eXtensible Markup Language viewer. The data can be stored in Oracle OpenIngres, Informix, DB2, Datacom, and VSAM databases, on mainframes, Unix, AS/400, and NT platforms. 'Using a browser to run your financial applications is awesome,' he added. 'When you're pulling Java applets into browsers to get online access to things, you don't have to load anything on users' machines,' Hetrick said. With a Java browser as the application's client-side front end, the DLL problem disappears. Multiply that by one hundred PCs and you rapidly have a logistics nightmare.

New software with new DLLs (dynamic link libraries) often causes IT personnel to go into trial-and-error mode just to discover which version of the DLL is required to run which piece of software on each machine. Mark Hetrick, a senior analyst for Kaman Sciences and a client of the Masterpiece system, cited the difficulty of installing client/server software on a large network of fat-client machines (specifically focusing on overwriting DLLs) as a reason for his support of the newly refashioned Masterpiece/Net. (And the core can contain such integrated modules as general ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, job costing, labor distribution, and the CA-Hrisma human resources software.) And it retains the basic core modules of Masterpiece 3.0 but adds some currency and search enhancements to the core. So, Masterpiece/Net's new Java face virtually eliminates the client-management issues. Now all users have to do to use the interface (and, consequently, access the latest versions of the core functions, which have remained the same) is to use a Java-capable browser. So, CA rewrote the interface layer in Java.

Launched at the beginning the second quarter of this year, the new version is called Masterpiece/Net, and early customer response is favorable.Ī year ago, early customers of the original module-based Masterpiece 3.0 weren't happy with its sluggish performance and complex client-side installation process. Of 4 Computer Associates breathes new life into Masterpiece with JavaĬomputer Associates (CA) has decided to develop a new interface for its Masterpiece financial management product using Java.

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