Trinitec Plc, the diversifying London-based display terminals distributor, has established Amarante Ltd as a subsidiary to specialise in software and communications products. Amarante is the second subsidiary to emerge from the Trinitec stable in the last eight months. The first was Conformix Ltd, which was set up to address the Unix market and currently distributes for Intel, Interactive Systems, Genicom and Specialix Systems. Amarante’s first distributorship is for Banyan Systems wide area network, Vines. The system runs on 80286-and 80386-based machines and supports a number of local area and wide area networks. The core of the network is Streetalk, a global naming system that gives access to the multi-user file and shared printer services, electronic mail and integrated services to asynchronous host computers and IBM host computers on 327O SNA or Bisync. The new company acknowledges that the dominant system in this market is Novell’s NetWare, but argues that Vines is aimed at corporate networking, rather than Novell’s workgroup market. Nonetheless, Amarante is priced to appeal to both. The 80286 version is around UKP1,000 and the 80386 just under UKP5,000.
