CrossWind Technologies Inc, Felton, California is expected to take a step backwards at Unix Expo next month and announce a character version of Synchronize, its X Window-based time and task management tool, the first Motif-based commercial application on the market. The company reckons that you can’t sell technology alone to commercial accounts and notes its Fortune 500 and government customers have lots of MS-DOS and Macintosh personal computers and a whole lot of character terminals. So CrossWind is adopting a client-server strategy with Unix on the server and clients running the native Mac, Windows or OS/2 interface. Both the X and character versions will be shipped together so that users can upgrade for free. Pricing is the same at $100 per user.
