Although launched last month (CI No 1,703) Digital Equipment Corp’s CDD/Repository will not be shipping until November for the VMS version and users will have to wait till February for the Ultrix version. Electronic News reports that one of the main reasons for the delay of the Ultrix version is that DEC’s CASE business unit is unfamiliar with the Ultrix/SQL database to be used for storing data – as a result the Ultrix software has needed more testing than the VMS code, which is an update of the existing CDD/Plus data dictionary. Even when it does ship the Ultrix version of CDD/Repository will not have support for front-end analysis and design tools. The two versions of CDD/Repository are not compatible and are likely to remain incompatible for another two years, so users will have to choose either the VMS or the Ultrix version.
