Inference Corp, El Segundo, California, recently spun out its Front Office Solutions division as Brightware Inc, Novato, California. Now Brightware is touting an Art*Enterprise package as an object-oriented development environment that can use structured, that is relational, and unstructured, that is object-oriented, data. It comes with an ARTScript development language, class libraries for use with a graphical user interface builder, a data integrator and retrieval tools. It includes a debugger, a system re-use manager for organising and retrieving re-usable components, and a repository where ARTScript definitions are stored. It supports Unix, Windows, NT OS/2 and MVS systems; Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Q+E and Open Database Connectivity compliant databases. Inference will sell and support the products in Europe and retains the former division’s Case Based Reasoning 2 front-office product. Each Inference shareholder received a matching number of Brightware shares in the spin-out.
