Ultimate Corp, East Hanover, New Jersey reports that early results from beta testing of an IBM Corp RS/6000 implementation of its Ultimate Plus Business Operating Environment version of the Pick system have been outstanding, paving the way for general availability to be announced shortly. At the same time it has announced general availablity on Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP 9000 Series 800 Unix line. Ultimate Plus provides access to Unix as well as Pick applications; the base package supports eight users, 16 printer ports and includes UltiKit, UltiLink, UltiMation, UltiPlot, UltiWord and UltiWriter utilities; the UltiCalc spreadsheet is available at an additional charge. The base package costs $4,000, and it is then $415 for each addiional licence.
