Following on from Fujitsu Ltd’s announcement that it would be remarketing popular open systems products such as the Dutch Uniface applications generator, Oracle Corp relational database and others, Nippon DEC also says that it will start marketing Uniface. Uniface BV’s distributor in Japan is Takt Systems Ltd, which will continue to provide pre- and after-sales support for the product. Nippon DEC says that the Alpha AXP version of Uniface will be available later this summer, and is already available on VAXes and VAXstations under OpenVMS and DECsystems and DECstations under Ultrix. Uniface is said to have sold 15,000 copies around the world. Following the appointment of a Japanese president, former Bayerische MotorenWerke AG chief Mr Hamawaki who recently replaced long-timer American Edmund Reilly, Nippon DEC has reorganised into five industry-based divisions and three product-based divisions. The industry-based divisions are designed to focus the company’s energy on providing turnkey systems and cover the communications, transport, service and process industries, communications and media, machinery and electrical equipment, financial, construction and systems integration services, and medical and pharmaceutical industries. The three product-based divisions are Technology Products, the Personal Computer Division and Multimedia services. The new Nippon DEC organisation took effect on July 1.
