Sun Microsystems Australia has signed with Apscore International to develop the latter’s Pick-based Cue-Bic Financials suite of software for its Sparcsystems, becoming yet another part of the increasingly complex web of agreements made by Sun under its Partnership for Development Programme with the Federal Government in Canberra. Under the agreement, Sun will provide Apscore with resources to develop its Pick-based software to run under SunSoft’s Unix, and will help Apscore to market the resulting Pick products overseas. Apscore’s general manager, Steve Salmon, said the agreement makes good business sense, given the strong Unix trend in the Pick market. He said Apscore was one of the first companies to do versions of its products to the Pick look-alike databases UniVerse and UniData, and now the Sun agreement will let it better support these products on Sun hardware. Apscore is concentrating on re-developing its products so that they are more graphical user interface- and database-independent with an emphasis on object orientation thus linking with Apscore’s other interests including its representation of the ObjectStore object oriented database in Australia on Sun kit. The products presently undergoing re-development for Sun are Apscore’s proprietary language and expert system-based applications – financial, loans and insurance. We will also do conversion methods for our clients and the Pick market.
