Also at the show ICL unveiled PC Ingres, an Ingres application development system for its personal computer line, and a micro-to-mainframe link called Ingres/Relay allowing its personal computer users to connect to Ingres 5.0 running on one of its mainframe systems. Ingres/Relay costs UKP250 and is available now. In other show news, Delta Software International, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, part of the Swiss-based Delta Software Technologie AG group introduced a tool for building interfaces between application and database management systems. Delta/DBI uses its own data manipulation language – which generates database code, such as SQL – and requires no detailed knowledge of the data store or target database, claims the firm. Delta/DBI is based on entity relationship models and works with a range of database systems – no prices given. London-based Model Systems Ltd unveiled version 4.6 of its SSADM-based Analyst Workbench tool which now includes extensions for object-oriented design support. Software Generation International, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, has done a version of its PVCS management control software for IBM’s RS/6000s. Verilog SA’s Richmond, Surrey-based subsidiary has launched its AGE software development cycle design tool on to the UK market. It runs on Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard/Apollo, DEC and IBM workstations.
