New GUIs arrive for Adager, along with built-in link software Adager is showing off its latest incarnation of the Adager Console at the HP World show, a graphical interface for managing your IMAGE databases. The functionality is about the same for the product, which runs on a Windows PC and connects to Adager running on your HP 3000. What’s interesting about the new version isn’t its look, but how it connects. Adager has included technology from AICS Research that is part of the AICS QCTerm product, that freeware terminal emulator which links through telnet to 3000s. Because the software is bundled into the Adager Console release, you don’t need a terminal emulator anymore to link the PC client with the 3000 server software. The Console was once linked via WRQ’s Reflection and its Process to Process Link communications module. But WRQ dropped PPL support some time ago, and vendors like Adager and Performance Software Group (makers of the Facade 3000 programming editor) had to engineer new ways to link. The Adager use of QCTerm as embedded link software is one of the first product-based implementations of the technology. Adager is also planning to show off two other graphical interfaces for its 3000 utility, including one that can be run from any client instead of just Windows PCs. That would be a Java client that can run in any browser, so if using a Macintosh is your window onto the HP 3000 you can stick to the graphical interface that’s commonplace on Mac desktops. We’ve also heard from Pete Vickers in the UK that his latest version of GUI3000, now shipping, will have graphical hooks into Adager, perhaps in time for an August HP World demo. Copyright 1998 The 3000 NewsWire. All rights reserved