The German Unix house, iXos Software GmbH based in Grassbrunn, near Munich, has signed up Unipress Software Inc of Edison, New Jersey, to distribute its database query tool, iXview/SQL and a new application development tool called iXBuild. iXBuild, operating under the Open Software Foundation’s Motif graphical user interface, enables programmers to create applications for technical and scientific markets – the toolkit can if required operate in a WYSWIG mode. Available now, IXBuild is priced at $4,500. The company, which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far, is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border, in France, and is currently courting French distributors. IXview/SQL and iXBuild both operate in French and English as well as German. iXos was founded back in 1988 by Eberhard Farber, founder of PCS Cadmus GmbH, and Hans Strach-Zimmerman, who had been the head of Unix systems and software development at the then Siemens Data Systems.
