We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects, and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects, and Novell Inc seems to think so too. It is getting really serious about Serius Corp, the Salt Lake City, Utah start-up where it put up venture capital for an 11% stake early last year. It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright, paying $17.25m for the other 89%. Serius has developed a library of objects designed to enable non-programmers to create custom applications by simply linking objects on a point-and-click basis. In addition to simplifying custom application programming Serius technology simplifies the linking of applications to various network services, be they directories, security or communications. And applications built with Serius technology are portable between Apple Computer Inc Macintosh and Microsoft Corp Windows environments. The line includes two application builders, Serius Workshop and Serius Developer Pro. Libraries of objects, used inside the builders include Serius Database, SQL, Multimedia, Communications and InterApp.
