The Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Novell Inc have agreed to cross-license each other’s technology as an easy means of enabling their products to conform to key industry standards. Santa Cruz will take Novell source code for object-oriented application development tools. Sometime in the first half of this year, developers will be able to buy these tools, and sell them to developers so they can build applications conforming to the Tools Interface Standard’s Portable Object File Format. The Portable Object File Format essentially provides a common format between object modules. Novell, conversely, will license Santa Cruz C compilers, which implement the C Compiler command syntax specified by X/Open Co Ltd’s XPG4 Development System specification. Novell’s new compilers will also be released this year. Meanwhile, Santa Cruz says that Sybase Inc’s SQL Server Version 4.2 and related relational database management tools now run under its Open Systems Software Release 3.0 operating systems, which comprise Santa Cruz Open Server and Santa Cruz Open Desktop. Support for Sybase’s System 10 will also follow in the current quarter.
