Canotech, a sales subsidiary of Canon Inc, has teamed with Oracle Japan Ltd to become a distributor of Oracle. Canotech will sell Oracle combined with open hardware, and will in future consider developing applications based on Oracle, particularly for client-server environments which include Macintosh. The company expects to sell 50 copies of Oracle in the last quarter of the financial year to March. Meantime Canon Sales has begun marketing DAL Server for Unix from Pacer Software Inc, which enables Macintosh applications to access Unix databases. It is $5,200 for 16 users in English; a Japanese version will follow in October.
