Canadian Unix utilities and porting company Mortice Kern Systems Inc, Waterloo, Ontario, is creating a version control DataBlade for use with the Informix Universal Server out of its Web-based Integrity Engine change management software. Universal Server is the object-relational combination of Illustra Technologies’ content management system and Informix’s Dynamic Scalable Architecture relational database due by year-end. The DataBlade will be available from MKS in the third quarter priced from $500 per concurrent user – presumably for use with the Illustra Server as part of Informix9s DataBlade Developers Program until Universal Server proper ships. MKS’ version control technology is already bundled by Netscape Communications Corp with every copy of its Netscape Enterprise Server for Web software developers (CI No 2,870). MKS’ Integrity Engine is a server-based product which provides basic version control on a Web server. It allows developers working in distributed environments to check in and out source files using Integrity Engine and an Internet client.
