The way the Santa Cruz Operation Inc’s client integration division sees it, organisations want to be able to hook up any desktop to the Internet and have them access applications running on any server, seamlessly. With that goal in mind the division, created out of the former IXI Ltd and VisionWare Ltd units, is working on new products that will incorporate the Microsoft Corp Visual Basic Script Internet scripting language – which includes a Java application programming interface – Javascript, the X Consortium’s Broadway and other Web technologies. For now, they will be specifically geared towards Unix servers and Windows clients. One question in the division’s mind is how acceptable Java engines become on personal computers. Its current roster of ten Vision family products will most likely be rationalised as a result. The division had planned to develop its own browser until the emergence of Navigator and other Web explorers made this task unnecessary.
