AT&T Co’s Bell Laboratories Software Technology Center is to promote Procase Inc’s Smartsystem – a five-module development and maintenance environment integrated over an object-oriented database – to AT&T development organisations under a co-operative purchase pact: the Center has developed interfaces linking Smartsystem to AT&T’s own software engineering products which Procase itself will peddle to C developers; Procase recently closed $3.8m round of financing from current investors, bringing the venture capital it has raised to over $20m.