Dear LECIS subscriber,

Below you will find the latest product announcement from the e-labcompany (http://www.e-labcompany.co.uk/) regarding their LECIS Shell Suite Developer Edition software package.

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Torsten Staab
LECIS Webmaster (www.lecis.org)

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6th November 2002

The Electric Laboratory Company Ltd is pleased to announce the release of
its LECIS Shell Suite Developer Edition. This new version integrates the OMG
LECIS COBRA standard (with DCOM) into our existing established ASTM LECIS
product set.

LECIS Shell Suite Developer Edition

The Developer Edition of the e-labcompany LECIS Shell Suite is the easiest
way to integrate LECIS compliance into your instrument systems. It allows
any of the following flavours of LECIS interface to be used. All new
versions present the same Microsoft COM/ActiveX interfaces for the SLM, TSC
and SCD modules.

The available external interfaces are:
- OMG LECIS CORBA interface (with ASTM LECIS compatibility mode)
- OMG LECIS DCOM interface (with ASTM LECIS compatibility mode)
- ASTM LECIS (incorporates compatibility with OMG LECIS)

The Developer Edition includes everything in the Run-Time version, plus:
- Run-Time Licenses for 5 concurrent SLMShell and TSCShells
- A sample SLMShell project to kick start development
- - Microsoft Visual Basic 6 source code
- - An example OMG LECIS DCD and SCD
- - Full project documentation
- A SLMShell emulator for testing TSC code, DCD's
- An easy graphical tool to view, edit or create XML DCD's and SCD's
- An graphical tool to maintain SCD's through the OMG LECIS SCD interface
- Graphical Shell Interface (GSI).
- - Provides control of LECIS SLM devices with Microsoft Visio flowcharts!

The LECIS Shell Suite software provides security and auditing to support
validation.