With around 20 sales to its credit France’s Matra Datasysteme is touting the Encore Multimax 320 as its main Unix offering and is seeking to broaden its distribution network with agents in the UK and Germany. Matra has recently signed a UKP1.5m deal with Relational Technology Inc to have the Ingres relational database manager implemented on the Encore machine, Matra’s XMS-7000, as well as its own hot new artificial intelligence machine, the XMS 3000. As well as the 7000 and 3000 ranges Matra includes the Norsk Data machines, its XMS-5000, and Sun stations in its Unix product line.