PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
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Product Datasheet Today's successful corporations and ISVs base their IT investments on power and flexibility. For the enterprise that means heterogeneous environments are the norm, rather than the exception. Organizations can no longer only deliver large-scale, UNIX-based systems to customers; the marketplace requires additional offerings. With an increasing demand for PC-based, multiplatform products in the market, enterprises around the world are looking for solutions that can bridge UNIX and Windows, so that they can offer more than a single-platform product and remain competitive. MKS Toolkit® for Enterprise Developers (formerly NUTCRACKER) is that solution. MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers is the proven solution for porting robust, mission-critical UNIX/Linux applications to Windows. MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers Benefits MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers enables organizations to: • Reduce Total Cost of Development • Leverage Existing Investments • Decrease Time to Market • Maintain a Single Source Code Baseline • Evolve Applications to Windows Technologies • Deploy Throughout the Enterprise • 64-bit Windows Migration With over 2700 UNIX APIs and a full command-line development environment, MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers is the ultimate in UNIX to Windows migration. No other product can match the full support for C, C++, and Fortran; for UNIX process management including fork(), signals, alarms, message queues and threads; for file system and security management; and for curses, X, Motif, and OpenGL. And no other product matches MKS Toolkit's access to Windows APIs for Windows integration and interoperability. Reduce Total Cost of Development Software compatibility solutions generally have a price, such as high cost, limited functionality, or reduced performance. MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers eliminates these problems by running UNIX and Windows-based applications together in a tightly integrated, high-performance Windows environment. For mission-critical applications, the cost of writing and testing new code falls between $3.90 and $4.90 per line of code according to International Data Corporation (IDC). MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers dramatically reduces the time and cost of migration existing UNIX code to Windows. 1 | PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers

If, after testing, it is then deployed on 250 Windows Workstations, the total licensing cost for MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers will be under $30,000. The total cost of labor involved in porting and testing might run somewhere between $50,000 to $60,000 (mostly QA). The cost of rewrite (assuming that 100,000 lines of code can be reused) would be somewhere around $400,000 and probably will take at least ten times longer than with the MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers. The option of re-writing mission-critical systems is more time consuming and more costly. MKS Toolkit for...

for Enterprise Developers takes that into account as well. Having one source code base makes supporting both the old and new environments significantly easier throughout the lifetime of the product. Evolve Applications to Windows Technologies MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers supports converting UNIX software to componentized 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. • Integrate with Desktop Applications • Web Enable Existing UNIX Applications •...

• NuTRACKER Workstation - a full UNIX runtime compatibility environment for workstation platforms • NuTRACKER Server - the server counterpart of NuTRACKER Workstation for servers and all machines with more than two processors • Power User Utilities - a set of UNIX utilities for runtime support of automation and scripting capabilities • Developer Utilities - a more comprehensive set UNIX utilities for advanced support of application automation and scripting capabilities • Connectivity Suite - a complete suite of connectivity tools and services providing runtime support for access to and from...

• IPC and Networking: sockets (including UNIX-domain sockets), shared memory, message queues, semaphores, and FIFOs • UNIX to Windows file and user security mapping • UNIX to Windows 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 • Access remote UNIX, Linus, and Windows systems with Secure Shell utilities (secsh/secshd, scp, sftp), Remote Shell utilities (rsh/rshd, rexec/rexecd, rlogin, rcp) a Telnet service (telnetd), and xterm •...