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Prominare Inc. was founded in 1991 with the objective of developing software tools and applications for the OS/2 environment. Based in Canada it has developed an international distribution network for its products. Since its creation, Prominare has built a reputation for leaders in PM programming, a reputation which has been recognised by IBM in its sublicensing of the Prominare interface to act as the Universal Resource Editor, a replacement to the Dialog Box Editor.

The company changed its name to Code F/X Inc. in 1999 and started focusing on Windows NT products and appears to have gone out of business around 2001.

Products

Prominare Analyst Designer
Prominare Development System - Multi-platform visual design environment
Prominare Validator - API trace and debugging utility
Prominare Converter - Bitmap conversion
Prominare Designer - GUI designer
Prominare Universal Resource Editor - Dialog editor

Personnel

Gerald Labelle, VP Marketing
Andrew Pope
Matt Smith

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-==Description==
+'''Prominare Inc.''' was founded in 1991 with the objective of developing software tools and applications for the OS/2 environment. Based in Canada it has developed an international distribution network for its products. Since its creation, Prominare has built a reputation for leaders in PM programming, a reputation which has been recognised by IBM in its sublicensing of the Prominare interface to act as the Universal Resource Editor, a replacement to the Dialog Box Editor.
-Canadian company that made development tools for OS/2 from the early nineties onwards. The company changed its name to '''Code F/X Inc.''' in 1999 and started focusing on Windows NT products and appears to have gone out of business around 2000.
-==Known products==
+The company changed its name to ''[[Code F/X]] Inc.'' in 1999 and started focusing on Windows NT products and appears to have gone out of business around 2001.
-* [[Prominare Development System]] - Multi-platform visual design enviroment
+==Products==
+* Prominare Analyst Designer
+* [[Prominare Development System]] - Multi-platform visual design environment
 * [[Prominare Validator]] - API trace and debugging utility
 * [[Prominare Converter]] - Bitmap conversion
 * [[Prominare Designer]] - GUI designer
-* [[Prominare Universal Resource Editor]] -
+* [[Prominare Universal Resource Editor]] - Dialog editor
-* [[Code F/X Porting Tool]] - A tool that translated [[C]] code OS/2 API calls to WinNT API calls.
-* Code F/X Porting Pack - A collection of "Code F/X Porting Tool", "Code F/X Design Studio" (Win version of Prominare Designer) and "Code F/X Bitmap Converter" (Win version of Prominare Converter)
 ==Personnel==
+* Gerald Labelle, VP Marketing
+* Andrew Pope
 * [[Matt Smith]]
-==Last known contact info==
+[[Category:Defunct companies]]
-*Prominare Inc. (1996)
-:+1 (416) 363-6157
-[[Category:Companies]]