LBMS announces fully customizable standards management tool.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 1995--LBMS Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Client/Server Guidelines, a fully customizable standards "desktop," that captures, distributes and maintains all Windows-based software standards in one central location.

Optimized for Windows 95, Client/Server Guidelines provides the development team with efficient methods of maintaining industry best practices for client/server applications development.

Client/Server Guidelines is fully customizable. An organization can make changes to the central standards database creating instant updates that are available to development teams via the repository. By promoting reuse of these corporate and industry standard development guidelines, Client/Server Guidelines increases developer productivity and efficiency, and ensures consistency across applications.

"LBMS is committed to providing application development management solutions to the growing number of developers building workgroup and enterprise client/server applications," said Rick Pleczko, vice president of product management at LBMS. "Client/Server Guidelines is the first tool that empowers the development team with ready-to-use application guidelines and procedures. The product fills a void in the industry that required software developers to reference style guides and manuals for standards rules and recommendations. Instead, Client/Server Guidelines gives organizations immediate and customizable guidelines for standardizing the development process."

Client/Server Guidelines includes industry proven standards and guideline topics, including:

- a comprehensive database of GUI design standards for Windows 95 and 3.x;

- coding and naming conventions;

- a component manager to monitor and maintain team- and enterprise-level reusable objects, such as GUI components, code, business rules and data objects;

- an inventory manager to track company-standard application development tools.

Other features of Client/Server Guidelines include:

- a glossary of terms providing definitions and notations for developers who are unfamiliar with Windows terminology.

- a user-defined reference folder that allows developers to store tables or lists, for such items as reserved words, icons and standard menus to be shared across a development team.

Client/Server Guidelines requires Windows 95 or 3.x, with 8 Mb RAM and 50 Mb hard disk space on a server. Client/Server Guidelines runs independent of network protocols and works with any network compatible with Windows including Novell Netware, Microsoft Windows NT and Banyan Vines. Immediately available through LBMS for a suggested retail price of $3,495 for a five seat license.

LBMS Inc., based in Houston, is the leading provider of application development management products to Fortune 1000 organizations. LBMS has an installed base of more than 21,000 users worldwide in areas such as manufacturing, financial services, retailing, oil, gas, government and utilities.

In addition to worldwide headquarters in Houston, the company has over 20 sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Hong Kong and Australia. Corporate Computing International Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of LBMS. LBMS has third-party agreements with Powersoft Corp., Microsoft Corp., Gupta Corp., Sybase Inc., Symantec, Lotus Development Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., NCR, Unisys, Ingres and Informix. -0- Note to Editors: Client/Server Guidelines is a trademark of LBMS Inc. Microsoft Windows, Windows 95 and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. All other company and product names are trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

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