Metis A/S, the Scandinavian computer-aided engineering and computer-integrated manufacturing software group that originated in Horten, Norway – the country’s nearest equivalent to Silicon Valley – has now set up a subsidiary in the UK, on the Brunel University campus in Uxbridge, Middlesex: Metis says it will use the new unit as a springboard into Europe for its database and applications development products, which are aimed at engineers that sit at Unix workstations.