Santa Cruz Operation France SA, which last September took control of distribution of Santa Cruz Unix products in Belgium from the UK division, will not be adding the new Garmhausen und Partner GmbH subsidiary in Belgium to the list of existing authorised distributors, the company confirmed. GUP Belgium, which started trading at the start of this year, had been hoping for an extension of territory clause to be added to the full distribution agreement Santa Cruz already has with its parent company in Germany; a spokeswoman for Santa Cruz France said that with the appointment of A-Line Technologies SA last September, there was never any question of appointing another. GUP Belgium boss Hans de Lange was putting a brave face on the decision last week after clinching a separate deal to offer System V.4 Unix through the Canadian company Consensys Computers Inc, which is currently setting up an office in the UK. Toronto-based Consensys, a privately-owned consultancy and supplier of serial input-output boards, bought the rights to offer systems built around System V.4 code last year, and since November claims some 600 installations in the US and Canada, and a further 100 in Europe largely through an existing reseller deal in Germany. The package that Consensys will be offering through Garmhausen und Partner and other distributors is built around the Unix System V.4 operating system, including a full installation package, TCP/IP and Network File System code; in Belgium, Garmhausen und Partner is putting an introductory price tag equivalent to $950 on the whole package, which will rise to $1,800 to $1,900 on May 1. Roger Chalke, who for the moment is Consensys UK, confirmed that the end-user price in the UK will also be well under $1,000 for the whole package. Meanwhile in the Netherlands, Foundation Software, Santa Cruz Operation reseller in that country, says it has signed with Informix Software Benelux giving it exclusive rights to supply the Informix database and proprietary development language to Dutch Santa Cruz Operation clients. Two year old Foundation Software, Amsterdam, claims it now accounts for 40% of the Dutch market for Santa Cruz Unix products.
