Cambridge, UK-based IXI Ltd has released version 1.2 of its Deskterm developers’ kit, which it claims better supports developers that do not have access to – or do not want to change – application source code, but that do want to add a Motif graphical user interface onto their application. IXI has appointed Tecsys Inc, St Laurent, Quebec; MultiUser Systems Inc, Hollis, New Hampshire; and Bluestone Inc, Mount Laurel, New Jersey, to distribute Deskterm in North America. Deskterm enables developers to migrate existing applications to run in a windowing environment without the need for extensive knowledge of the X Window environment. Tecsys – a Canadian Uniplex distributor – is using Deskterm to put a Motif front-end on to its Informix-based wholesale distribution and financial applications: it’s looking at other products to distribute too.
