Astec Inc, the Japanese distributor of CodeCenter, the programming environment from CenterLine Software Inc of Cambridge. Massachusetts, has announced a new version, CodeCenter version 4. New functions include the CenterLIine Information Engine, a protocol for creating interfaces with other software; interfaces with Motif and Open Look, support of Solaris 2.0; and ANSI C compiler for the Sparcstation version and improved graphical user interfaces. Astec has sold 1,300 licences of the C programming environment since its release in Japan in September 1990; this is approximately one tenth of the worldwide sales of the the product.
