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From: jacob@latcs1.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: PCTE
Message-ID: <9854@latcs1.oz.au>
Date: 27 Mar 91 23:47:27 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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>I'm looking for references and/or implementations of PCTE, the
>"Portable Common Tools Environment".  Does anyone have any information
>on it?

According to the Emeraude blursheet (distributed at the last Toulouse'90
exhibition and conference - SE & Applications) :-

	"[...] A list of CASE tools running in the PCTE environment is
	established by the PCTE Promotion Group (PPG) and can be obtained by
	contacting PPG or GIE Emeraude.

	PPG members are: Bull, CEC DG XIII, Digital, HP, Generics Software,
	GIE Emeraude, IPSYS Software, SFGL, STC & SYSECA. [...]"

Emaraude product Emeraude V12 is available on or being ported into
Sun3, HP9000, IBM RS/6000, Dec station 5000, Bull DPX/2, and provides :-

o	Libraries for C programming (PCTE 1.5 bindings, version management,
	metabase, dilogue management and data query utilities);

o	Utilities (network DB admin, graph archiving, data modeling and SDS
	management using a metabase, object management and database
	navigation, composite objects version management);

o	Unix derived utilities (encapsulation method with source code,
	"Free Software Foundation" derived utilities).

I am not aware of another implementation of PCTE although the exhibitors
guide has a reference to couple of other companies that "participated" in
the standard definition and are "currently working" on PCTE products, these
are Mark V Systems, Logiqual, and Softpen.

Jacob L. Cybulski

Amdahl Australian Intelligent Tools Programme
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Vic 3083, Australia

Phone: +613 479 1270
Fax:   +613 470 4915
Telex: AA 33143
EMail: jacob@latcs1.oz.au