Meridian Software Systems, based in Irvine, California has introduced its OpenSelect CASE, an MS-DOS computer aided software engineering tool; OpenSelect CASE supports the Computer Aided Software Engineering Data Interchange Format for Cadre and IDE tools; the data interchange format provides an interface mechanism between tools, and Meridian’s CDIF utility allows the import and export of data between OpenSelect other tools; it supports multiple projects and a variety of diagram or output formats, and it includes a data dictionary as well as providing interactive consistency checking; Meridian intends to add support for MS-Windows by first quarter 1992, and OpenSelect is available for the next two months at $500, rising to $795 thereafter.