2nd November 1995


JBA offers OS/2 developers free trial of Guidelines  - the client/server, 
object enabled toolset 

Application software and development tools supplier JBA is offering OS/2 
application developers 21 days free evaluation of JBA Guidelines, the 
company's comprehensive client/server development environment. Developers 
are invited to contact JBA's Kate Scott on +44 (0)1789 400212, or access 
JBA's World Wide Web page, at http://www.jba.co.uk, for details of how to 
receive the full JBA Guidelines Professional Developers Kit on CD-ROM for 
a free 21 day evaluation period.

JBA's technical marketing manager for Guidelines, Mike Gove, said: 
"Guidelines is a complete client/server development environment built by 
JBA to re-engineer 4.5 million lines of its own commercially available 
business software into a client/server, object enabled package. OS/2 
application developers are extremely technically aware, as shown by their 
choice of operating system, and will be impressed by the breadth of 
functionality within Guidelines, hence the offer of a free evaluation 
copy to enable that assessment."

Targeted at development teams who currently program in COBOL, Basic, RPG, 
C and C++, as well as the visual programming environments, Guidelines 
allows developers to create programs that run on both the PC and server 
platform. Within Guidelines, developers are free to code either directly 
in C++ or in JOT, a high level object language.

JOT allows the coding of event driven applications that utilise both the 
flexibility and graphical nature of personal computers while providing 
easy and direct access to server technologies. Regardless of  the client 
platform selected, Guidelines will generate highly portable and flexible 
C++ for subsequent compilation on the designated target environment.

JBA is a world leading supplier of  enterprise wide software products and 
services for integrated manufacturing, distribution and financial 
applications. JBA's 1500 staff support over 3500 customers across the 
world


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