from Forte 4GL to UDS : a bit of history

Forté founded 02/1991, the staff chained to their desks for more than three years before shipping the product 08/1994, became profitable the next year and things went pear shape from 04/1997. To cut a loss story short, 08/1999 merger with Sun complete, Forté is an iPlanet product with a Sun logo, 2002 the iPlanet Sun|Netscape alliance is over and Forté is Sun ONE Unified Development Server (UDS) with an iPlanet logo ... trivial

PRODUCTS

Forté 4GL or Forté TOOL (ADE)

The very core of the Forté's offer. Define, Version, Distribute, Build, Deploy & Monitor all in one place. Specific language: Transactional Object Oriented Language (TOOL). DevStudio provided. Multi platform (Windows, MacOS, Tru64, Alpha Open VMS, HP9000 HP-UX, OS/390, RISC/6000 AIX, Sequent Dynix/ptx, Sun SPARC SunOS,) & multi DB (DB2, Informix, Ingres, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase & ODBC)

Applications can be distributed across a heterogeneous array of clients and servers, run in interpreted (Forté VM) or C++ compiled, integrated with external systems using Java, C, C++, XML, OLE ...


Forté Express (04/1996)

A RAD tool to generate business model and matching DB layout & access.


Forté WebEnterprise (12/1997)

A deployment add on to Web enable Forté 4GL application by generating the necessary plumbing and GUIs to be served through MS IIS (ISAPI) or NES (NSAPI or ForteCGI).


Forté Conductor (9/1997)

A GUI based workflow design environment with the ability to analyse the work in progress.