With a small amount of effort, you can add graphics, custom controls, drop down lists and dialog boxes and other more advanced windows features.  Add custom Visual Basic applications at the desktop and you can take Co*STAR, and your users, to places that can hardly be imagined.  For example, CoStar can communicate with multiple hosts or servers at the same time.  You can literally log onto your WangŪ VS and an AS/400, mainframe, NT Server or Unix server, or all of them, at the same time.  And you can integrate data at the screen level.  You can draw data from multiple hosts to full in a single transaction.

  It is straight-forward to host part of an application on one platform and part on another.  With Co*STAR, you can mask the complexities from your users, and you can use Co*STAR as a tool to assist you as you migrate application components from a WangŪ VS to a new platform.  Co*STAR also addresses a major operational problem: In many installations the end users actually see only a small part of the application.  Most of the code is used by the IT staff to do overnight and cycle processing and to maintain the data.  Co*STAR allows you the benefits of client/server applications without needing to worry about migrating the 75% of the code that end users never see.  And, because Co*STAR is MAPI and TAPI compliant, it can be used to better integrate the WangŪ VS with the desktop world.