Sources say that work has been resumed on the so-called Jekyll & Hyde application programming interfaces for extending the Common Desktop Environment that some X Window independent software vendors and terminal developers had planned to unveil back at UniForum. The extension is to support things like database access from Windows, deployment of Windows-based C++ code on Unix and Internet access. There’s no date for the stuff yet, but we hear that Jekyll & Hyde sponsors, including Santa Cruz Operation Inc and its IXI-Visionware unit, have been waiting for Integrated Computer Solutions Inc to complete the makeover of its business model, before it could proceed. Indeed, following Integrated Computer’s planned de-emphasis of its Motif interface development tools in favour of Silicon Graphics Inc-sourced C++ technology, IXI Visionware is plotting to ease its Premier Motif environment into Integrated’s Builder Xcessory toolkit.
