Conference pamsrc::objectbroker_development

2457.0. "Linkvest distributes Fbe" by SEND::SLAVIN () Wed Mar 19 1997 09:10

>
> Digital - Linkvest to license DIGITAL's FBE product
>	{Livewire, Worldwide News, 18-Mar-97}
>   Linkvest has signed a technology licensing and support agreement for FBE,
> Framework Based Environment, the product set formerly engineered and sold by
> DIGITAL.  The agreement enables Linkvest to distribute current versions of
> FBE, while simultaneously enhancing the FBE tool set and creating derivative
> products based upon FBE technology.
>   Under terms of the agreement, LINKVEST will provide support services for
> current and future FBE customers.  DIGITAL's partners may also offer FBE as
>a
> complement to ObjectBroker implementations.
>   FBE simplifies the task of integrating business applications into a
>flexible
> and easy-to-change environment.  Based on advanced client/server
>technologies
> and international standards, FBE combines a structured methodology and suite
> of software tools that enable companies to model business information
> processes and create application interfaces directly from those models.  FBE
> is based on ObjectBroker, the industry's leading implementation of the
>Object
> Management Group's (OMG) CORBA Specification.  FBE enables organizations to
> integrate legacy applications with newer client systems or servers that
>employ
> the more productive object-oriented approach.
>   ObjectBroker was specifically designed to help customers integrate
>existing
> and future applications, extend existing applications to new hardware
> platforms, and integrate products within dynamic frameworks.  On Feb. 18,
> DIGITAL and BEA Systems, Inc. announced a major strategic technology and
> distribution partnership around ObjectBroker as part of the first
> industry-standard, cross-platform, universal middleware infrastructure.