Wordperfect Corp, Orem, Utah has moved its backing for Novell Inc’s AppWare strategy on a little and now says that the AppWare Foundation a third-generation language programming tool that enables developers to write portable applications that are independent of the processor, operating system, graphical user interface or network is to be a standard development environment at WordPerfect’s Core Technologies Development – the Core Technologies group at WordPerfect is using the AppWare Foundation to add portability, standard networking interfaces, graphical user interfaces, and interapplication functionality to the company’s word processors, presentation graphics and workgroup applications; the Core Technologies group is responsible for the development of core code and functionality that is system-independent, for use in all the company’s products.
