The ACA joint venture company formed by Computer Associates International Inc and Ashisuto Co Ltd, the successful Japanese software company founded by American Bill Totten, announced that it would be absorbing the relational database business of the Ask Group Japan. This comes in the wake of the acquisition by Computer Associates of Ask’s US parent. This gives ACA an entre into the relational database market in Japan, where Ingres Corp currently has only 4% share of the Unix relational database market, compared with a reported 10% of the whole database market.
