MKS
Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
A
Powerful UNIX and Windows Co-Existence Solution
MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers, (formerly NuTCRACKER)
is the most complete
solution for enterprise cross-platform development,
deployment, interoperability, and migration of
UNIX/Linux applications and scripts to Windows.
From a single desktop, you can develop and migrate
Motif, X Windows, 3-D, and OpenGL applications
in C, C++, or Fortran, as well as non-graphical
applications and scripts. Choose from UNIX-style
command-line or graphical VisualStudio build environments.
Use powerful scripting capabilities to automate
your development and administration tasks.
User Compatibility. MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers includes several
UNIX shells and over 300
UNIX utilities so that your UNIX professionals
will feel at home on their Windows machines, with
no retraining.
Platform Interoperability. MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers includes several
tools and utilities that let you interoperate
between your UNIX and Windows machines.
Application Portability. MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers includes, in
addition to the hundreds of UNIX utilities, in
excess of 2700
UNIX APIs for porting all manner of UNIX applications
to Windows, while maintaining a single source
code baseline.
Application Modernization. MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers supports converting
legacy software to componentised objects that
can be deployed across UNIX and Windows, integrated
with desktop productivity tools (such as Word
and Excel), and used from browsers in web-enabled
applications.
"One
well known supplier of packaged UNIX
applications ported its core 7-million
line UNIX application in 2 days using [MKS
Toolkit for Enterprise Developers] and
released its NT product within two months.
This occurred after its best programmers
could not produce a native Win32 version
of the application despite more than 13
man-years of effort."
The
Aberdeen Group
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MKS
Toolkit for Enterprise Developers Benefits
The benefits of using our market-leading
solution are unmatched
by any other product on the market:
- MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers facilitates
the deployment of low-cost and low-maintenance
Windows workstations and servers instead of
higher-cost UNIX workstations and servers.
- A PC running MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers replaces the
need for both Windows and UNIX machines on the
desktop.
- MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers enables tight
integration of UNIX applications with Windows
applications on a common desktop, thereby increasing
both the value of corporate information assets
and worker productivity. MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers also maximizes
worker productivity by facilitating a common
Windows look-and-feel for both UNIX and Windows
applications.
- MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers reduces UNIX
server processing loads by enabling UNIX application
logic to be distributed to Windows platforms.
- MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers protects existing
investments in UNIX software and expertise while
providing a clear path for long-term, strategic
software evolution and platform compatibility
in mixed UNIX and Windows environments.
- MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers reduces time-to-market
and time-to-deployment.
- Using MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers, you can maintain
a single build environment across UNIX and Windows,
preserving your current investment. If you rewrite,
you will more than likely have to rewrite and
revalidate your makefiles, and you probably
have already made a huge investment in your
existing makefiles.
- You can maintain a single source
code baseline with MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers. If you port
yourself, you will almost certainly have two
source code baselines. Maintaining multiple
baselines is expensive and error-prone.
- With MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers, because you
are working from a single source code baseline
with minimal changes to your code, your overall
QA effort is dramatically reduced and you can
focus your QA efforts on very small, isolated
changes.
- MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers is in its fifth
major release, has been available for over five
years, and has ported millions and millions
of lines of UNIX code to Windows. MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers incorporates
all the hard lessons that we have learned through
the years – lessons that you can benefit from.
MKS
Toolkit for Enterprise Developers Features
- Over 2700 UNIX APIs including X11R6,
Motif 1.2.5, OpenGL, and XView.
- Over 300 UNIX and Windows command-line
utilities (full POSIX.2 specification).
- The Wintif option, for runtime
selection of Windows or Motif look-and-feel.
- Process management: fork(), exec(),
signals.
- POSIX, DCE, and Solaris threads.
- File system handling: mount(),
umount(), symlink().
- IPC and Networking: sockets (including
UNIX-domain sockets), shared memory, message
queues, semaphores, and FIFOs.
- UNIX to Win32 file and user security
mapping.
- UNIX to Win32 file path and file
system mapping, including devices such as /dev/null
and /dev/lp.
- Curses and terminal handling.
- A fully network-capable X server,
for displaying both local and remote X Windows
applications.
- A single-connection telnet server,
allowing remote access to the Windows machine.
- A remote shell service, and rexec
services, for remote access to Windows systems.
- Remote utilities (rsh, rexec, rcp,
rlogin) for accessing other UNIX and Windows
machines.
- A complete build environment including
ar, cc, cxx, ld, make, gmake, tcl, lex/yacc,
and flex/bison.
- A Deployment Wizard, a simple,
graphical tool for preparing applications for
distribution.
- NuTCRACKER Workstation.
If you would like more
information, complete our information
request page and we will contact you.
Additional detail is also available from the MKS
web site
http://www.mkssoftware.com
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