Major French distributor Oriane SA has signed a deal with UK software house Thomson Computers Ltd of York for the distribution of the Sea Change Unix applications generator, in a deal worth UKP500,000. At the signing ceremony, distibutors placed initial orders for the product, which offers full French language support, and expect to sell 100 copies by the end of the year. Thomson has enhanced the XISAM index sequential access method used by Sea Change to provide full 8-bit data for national language support, and (in deference to the ridiculous Italian lira) support for numbers up to 17 digits. Using an index caching algorithm, the com-any claims to have increased performance up to 50%._World Finance & Businessgram_
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