Fleshing out its July 1994 agreement with Novell Inc (CI No 2,460), Dublin firm Iona Technologies Ltd has put its Orbix distributed object request broker up on UnixWare 2, apparently its twelfth implementation. Iona sees the conversion as its first step towards the NetWare community. It offers UnixWare 2 users a way of building CORBA 1-compliant object applications while Novell wrestles to nail down a company-wide object strategy. Orbix is already supported by Novell’s Tuxedo transaction processing system for building transactional object applications. In other news, Iona is still promising volume ships of Orbix for Windows 3.1 this quarter while Tuxedo will support Borland International Inc’s new Delphi application tool for Windows.
