Japanese software developer Astec Inc has released the Saber C++ development environment of Saber Software Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Japan: it will initially offer the English version with a Japanese manual, from June this year, but a full Japanese version is is under consideration; Astec has also announced the Japanese X Window System version of the software; it has been selling a Japanese SunView version of the tool since last October, and soon hopes to release a version to run of DEC workstations.