Terminal-handling board builder Specialix International Ltd, Byfleet, Surrey, has opened its third international operation, in France, to market its Z80 and Transputer-based boards that enable larger numbers of terminals to be attached to Unix servers than would be possible without front-ends: the Paris office follows one in Munich, Germany and a subisidiary in the US, and Specialix looks for UKP1.6m with a 10% margin from its first year in France; worldwide, it looks for profits almost doubled to UKP1.1m for the year to June 1991, on turnover about doubled to about UKP13m.