Jon Broz said in his original message:

>      Cooperative Services, both the developer's kit and
runtime license,
>      has been discontinued as of 1JAN97 with end of
support 1FEB98.  There
>      are no replacement products from HP, although the
discontinuance plan
>      did mention WRQ's PPL(Process-to-Process Link) as a
"comparable 3rd
>      party product".

WRQ discontinued PPL (a/k/a RSDK) about a year (or more) ago
as well.  There is no direct replacement for either.  Both
pieces of software allowed the use of TurboIMAGE DB Calls
within PC programs, albeit Cooperative Services was more
geared toward DOS and Windows 3.0 (not 3.1), thus showing
its age.  RSDK was a 16-bit middleware product that provided
for the DB Calls, as well as virtually all of the intrinsics
(at the time)... and also provided for your own custom
server, as well as the generic server...

Both will be missed... both products were released ahead of
their time, which is why they met their demise, I guess.

Joe

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