newsbytes@clarinet.com (02/04/90)
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1990 FEB 2 (NB) -- Santa Cruz Operation has announced that Open Desktop, the graphical user interface for Unix-based 80386 and 80486-based PCs with either an industry standard, extended industry standard (EISA), or Micro Channel Architecture bus, is shipping. The single, ready-to-install package, comes complete with SCO Unix System U/386 release 3.2, the OSF/Motif and X Window System- based graphical user interface with Microsoft Windows and Presentation Manager-compatible operation, LAN Manager/X client, TCP/IP and NFS networking services, SQL database management capabilities and complete DOS-under-Unix system integration. The single-user list price is $995. The Open Desktop Server Upgrade will be $1,495 when released in the first quarter. SCO says over 1100 software developers nationwide are creating software products that will run in the Open Desktop environment, meaning they will offer a consistent user interface from product to product, similar to Macintosh software products. They include Informix (Wingz), Altos, Frame Technology (Framemaker), Century Software (Term), Cognition (Advantage CAD/CAM), Crosswind Technologies (Synchronize), Human Computing Resources (dbXtra), Ingres (Ingres SWL RDBMS), Transparent Technology (PC-Inmail), Uniplex (Uniplex Windows), Wang (Wang Clearview and Wang WP/X), and Worldwide Lynx (Lynx/3270). (Wendy Woods/19900202)