Japanese Unix products company Astec Ltd has announced an alliance with Black & White Software Inc of Campbell California, for the sale in the US of the text editor enhancement function developed by Astec for the graphical user interface builder UIM/X. Astec is the Japanese distributor for UIM/X, which hails from Visual Edge Software Inc of Canada. Astec has been selling its text editor with UIM/X in Japan since last August. Like Astec, Black & White develops added value products for UIM/X. Astec sells other Unix products such as CodeCenter, OpenXPress, Replix and its own Internet information service HyperDirectory.
