Software One Ltd, the six year-old UK firm based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, which specialises in software engineering data format translation and already has Compagnie des Machines Bull SA, Oracle Corp, Learmouth & Burchett Management Systems Plc, Amdahl Corp and Digital Equipment Corp deals under its belt, expects IBM Corp to sign for its Exchange software bridge on OS/2. Exchange now offers interfaces for around 20 software engineering tools, including Texas Instruments Inc’s Information Engineering Facility, KnowledgeWare Inc IEW and ADW, Intersolv Corp Accelerator, Learmonth’s System Engineer and Unisys Corp’s Linc, repositories and data dictionaries such as Reltech DB/Excel, Softlab GmbH’s Maestro II and Oracle Exchange, and generators like Paclan/X, CA-Telon and Amdahl Huron. The company is still working on a bridge to support the Computer-Aided Software Engineering Data Interchange Format, CDIF, standard. Most of its ú1.5m to ú2m revenues come from deals with system vendors, and it claims that it still has a few more big contracts to announce with major vendors over the next few months.
