SmartStar Corp of Goleta, California has created a UK subsidiary, Oxford-based SmartSystems (UK) Ltd, to market and support version 6.0 of its SmartStar application development environment. Ed Holt, former UK managing director of IBM financial software supplier Management Science America until its takeover by Dun & Bradstreet Corp in 1989, and subsequent consultant at UK software engineering outfit Software One Ltd of Marlow, has set up the operation with venture capital from London-based Chinon Investments Ltd. SmartStar, first developed in 1984 for the Digital Equipment Corp VMS market, is based on the Rapid Application Development method for rapid prototyping; SmartStar is planning a version for DEC’s Ultrix variant of Unix too.
