JSB Computer Systems Ltd reports high demand for its Multiview windowing system from hardware manufacturers and distributors of Santa Cruz Operation Xenix following its deal with Santa Cruz. The small software house from Cheshire now has UKP1.25m of bundling deals, including agreements with Altos to supply Multiview on the 80386-based Series 2000, and Equinox for the Stride computer; UKP400,000 will come from a deal on Philips’ yet-to-be-announced Xenix version of the P3202IBM AT-alike, due November. Softools of Rotterdam, a distributor of applications software, system software (Unix V, Microport V) and hardware, which will supply Multiview with the majority of the 1,000 or so Bell Technology micros it ships every year in Holland, and through associated companies in Germany, France and Belgium. Softools will also be selling Multiview as an off-the-shelf product. JSB is currently working on Multiview-X – a version fully compatible with X-Window to take advantage of applications written to conform with X-Window (as well as software without any windowing provision), while still able to run on the dumb terminals used in most shops. A graphics version of Multiview, still running text type applications, is also in the plan.
