Misys Plc’s Bourne End, Buckinghamshire-based TIS Software Ltd is set to take on the likes of Tetra Business Systems Ltd and Multisoft Financial Systems Ltd with the release of a Unix accounting software package, Strategix, slated for delivery in June: 10-year-old TIS says it has spent some UKP2m on developing the character-based product, which, written in C, runs on the Altos Computer Systems, Hewlett-Packard, DEC, IBM, MIPS Computer Systems and Intel-based Unix systems it distributes; the Unix standard X-Windowing environment, along with the Motif and Open Look graphical user interfaces are not yet supported; CHA Communications, CP Business Solutions, Team Systems Group and Mentor Systems – all Misys companies – contributed to the development of Strategix, which TIS’s John Johnston described as way ahead of Multisoft and Tetra; TIS declined to put a price on the software, or indicate whether any of the 50 value-added resellers it is targeting have actually inked agreements yet.
