The Soft Bank Research Institute affiliate of Nippon Soft Bank has committed itself to marketing more Unix applications: it plans to offer Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s X-Window System, in English initially, but with the intention of doing a Japanese version it in the near future; also planned for release is Interactive Systems Corp’s Ten Plus user interface, which makes Unix more accessible to MS- DOS users, and Relational Technology Inc’s Ingres relational database manager will follow in the second quarter of next year; Soft Bank Research Institute already has links with Phoenix Technologies Ltd as well as with Interactive Systems Corp.