DEC has made the eminently sensible move of signing a Complimentary (sic – we assume they mean Complementary) Technology Agreement with the Dutch company Uniface International BV to provide each other with early access to new developments, alpha versions of new products and releases: DEC is particularly interested in pulling Uniface’s PolyServer and Universal Presentation Interface into its Information Network strategy, since Uniface has a very strong reputation as a portable fourth generation language able to access a large number of database products and file systems; it is worth noting in this context that Uniface’s US operation is headed up by Mike Wilson – ex-vice president of Ingres, the company that developed Ultrix SQL, and that a little help from Uniface could go a long way to helping DEC get both its VMS and Ultrix applications to access any new database technology that it is now developing (CI No 1,564)…
