Logitek Computers Ltd, Slough, Berkshire, now part of Microvitec Plc (CI No 1,671), has announced its strategy, dubbed Logix ’92, for getting back a share of the UK Unix market. The company already has an agreement with ICL Plc to distribute DRS 6000s and ICL’s new range personal computers, and by the end of June Logitek says it will have chosen a second hardware supplier. Representing an investment of #250,000, Logix ’92 is intended to provide complete systems – hardware, software, maintenance, training, installation and operating systems – as well as trying to attract new resellers from the worlds of MS-DOS and NetWare looking to migrate to Unix. The company is expected to sign up for SunSoft’s Solaris version of Unix System V.4 in the next few days, but will also sell Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix and Unix System Labs’ shrinkwrapped version of System V.4. It is also building up a portfolio of applications. Management problems and lack of demand mean that Logitek is to ditch its contract with Altos Computer Systems Inc, San Jose, California, when it expires in October, although it will continue maintaining Altos machines. The closure of Microtex, a division of Logitek Computers, last October was a result of the Al-tos situation, the company said. As for restructuring, Brian Haynes, Logitek’s sales and marketing director, denied that there would be further redundancies. In order to keep Wyse Technology Inc happy Logitek distributes its terminals – Logitek won’t act as a distributor for Microvitec’s terminals. With monitor sales seeing an upturn, according to Microvitec, it is launching a new monochrome range of monitors as well as signing a deal with British Aerospace Plc, rumoured to be over #1m to supply multi-media workstations to Saudi Arabia.
