Thuridion Inc, a Scotts Valley, California company, has licensed its Xalt Office workgroup software to ASCII Corp, which will market and distribute the office suite exclusively in Japan for the next two years from 1996. ASCII Corp, the Japanese publishing and software house, gets Xalt Desk, the application interface for Xalt Office that enables Xalt applications to interact with each other; Xalt People Manager, which acts as a directory and organiser, storing information accessed from the Internet; Xalt Calendar; Xalt Mail, an Internet electronic mail application which supports Multimedia Internet Message Extension attachments and Xalt Notes, an application that creates electronic ‘sticky’ notes and can send them to other users in a workgroup. Thuridion will develop a Japanese language version of the software in conjunction with ASCII. Xalt is up under Unix for $200; NT is in beta testing and is due to ship in the first quarter of 1996.
