IXI Ltd will begin shipments of a Wintif 1.0 Developers Pack at the end of this month, the Cambridge, UK-based Santa Cruz Operation Inc subsidiary says. Wintif provides a Windows appearance to Motif-based applications. The system is already in use London graphical interface house Imperial Software Technology Ltd, Wind/U Windows API-on-Unix house Bristol Technology Inc and UK Cobol house Micro Focus Plc. The developers’ pack comes free of charge with the next upgrade of IXI’s Premier Motif package this month on SunOS and in March for Santa Cruz Open Desktop, which is priced at 555. IXI says Wintif 2.0, due by the middle of the year, will be a deployable end-user system and will include promised Windows behaviour such as Object Linking & Embedding and other interchange formats so that users can cut and paste between applications. Unix application communications are being mapped into Object Linking & Embedding, the company says.
