EDS Europe’s Technical Products Division has retained Santa Cruz Operation Inc as a supplier of server operating systems for certain of its important, trans-European information system projects. Under the accord, the Technical Products Division of the Electronic Data Systems Corp subsidiary has already taken 1,000 licences of Santa Cruz’s Open Server Enterprise. The need to to develop an evolutionary client-server system, operating on a range of different systems exploiting the considerable power of Pentium, without as well overcharging slower systems, constitutes an absolute priority, said David Eakin, managing director of Technical Products Division for Europe, in a statement. Santa Cruz Open Server enables us to attain this objective. Santa Cruz also announced Santa Cruz Global Access, a Windows friendly server that enables users to access business applications on information highways such as Internet. Santa Cruz says it is the first to commercialise the Mosaic multimedia application from the National Supercomputing Center at the University of Illinois. The hypertext application enables users to navigate with a mouse the libraries of public and private information available through Internet. Global Access can be used on Windows-based personal computers, thanks to the Wintif technology developed by Santa Cruz’s subsidiary IXI Ltd here in the UK. Using IXI’s X.desktop and Motif technologies, Santa Cruz says it will soon convert Global Access functionality to Digital Equipment Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc RISC systems.
