Avalon Software Inc, Tucson, Arizona, has a new release of its Avalon manufacturing software and has added decision support applications to its suite as Avalon Analyst, written in Visual Basic. Avalon 9 is based on Oracle7 and uses Oracle Forms 4.0 to deliver applications to Windows or Motif clients. Up under most Unixes from next quarter, prices start from $100,000. Analyst modules start at $5,000; Supply Analyst for purchasing managers is out now.