Borland International Inc has bought the Dashboard for Windows utility from its developer, Hewlett-Packard Co, on undisclosed terms. It gets the Dasboard code, trademarks and related intellectual properties, and is calling it Borland Dashboard. It is claimed to have sold over 1m copies since 1992 and will continue to be bundled with some models of Hewlett’s Vectra personal computers. Borland also announced that it is to put its InterBase 4.0 relational database up under Windows NT, NetWare and several Unixes, including HP-UX, SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.X and AIX within the next 12 months. InterBase supports Binary Large Objects, real-life transactions through the InterBase versioning engine, automatic two-phase commit, arrays and events. InterBase 4.0, to ship later this year, will offer ANSI SQL 92 compatibility, improved performance, stored procedures and declarative referential integrity; pricing will be announced nearer to the shipping date.
