The Unix version of Informix’s Wingz spreadsheet, which was on the drawing board as far back as July 1988, will be available on Sun Microsystem’s Sun-386i, Sun-3 and Sparc workstations sometime during the current quarter. It has been jointly developed by Sun and Informix, and is based on the Open Look graph-ical user interface; it sells for $700. It supports of all of the Sun’s colour and graphics capabilities, as well as the SunView windowing environment, and text and graphics data exchange between SunWrite, SunPaint and SunDraw. In addition Sun and Informix have signed a joint marketing and development agreement to sell Informix software on Sun’s hardware.
