The Santa Cruz Operation has implemented its SCO Professional spreadsheet package for the Sun Microsystems Sun-3 workstation, and will follow up with versions for the Sun 386i, Sun-4 and Sparcstations by mid-October. A single user licence is $600, multi-user licences begin at $1,300. Once this is complete Santa Cruz is to press on with similar implementations of the FoxBase database package, which it distributes, despite the ‘look and feel’ copyright suits that were filed against it by Ashton-Tate Corp back last November. Santa Cruz is also is working on its first network licensing policy, initially for these two packages, under which a server licence is bought, followed by ‘bundles’ of licences. And mid-October the likely date for release of the Open Desktop $1,000 user interface.
