New York software house Jyacc Inc has signed up the UK’s Henley Business Software Ltd of Henley, Oxfordshire, as the exclusive European distributor of its JAM applications manager, a product aimed at simplifying the design of front-end applications for databases that will run on character-based terminals. Five-year old Jyacc developed the forms management software out of its own set of C library routines, and more recently has added a fourth generation language – JPL – and an SQL database interface. The product, which allows a developer to create front-ends including windows, pop-up menus and colour, now runs under six operating systems, including Unix, Xenix, VMS and PC-DOS. Henley Business Software says it will be supporting the product in conjunction with its own SQLBase MS-DOS database, and with Informix and Oracle under the Unix and VMS operating systems. For graphics based systems, Henley uses the MS-Windows based SQL-Windows from Gupta Technologies of Menlo Park, California, but managing director Nigel Geary says that Presentation Manager, and possibly X-Window versions are amoung plans for the future. Prices for JAM start at UKP900 for a low-end AT or Sun 3/50 running Unix, rising to UKP1,300 for an IBM 6150 or Sun 36i, and UKP2,500 for Apollo 4000, HP 9000 and NCR Tower machines.
