Canadian Unix utilities and implementations company Mortice Kern Systems Inc, Waterloo, Ontario, has won a big fillip for its version control software, with Netscape Communications Corp agreeing to bundle the expected MKS Integrity 1.0 with every copy of its $1,000 Netscape Enterprise Server. MKS Integrity 1.0 is functionally equivalent to the company’s existing Source Integrity version control software, but has been applied to the Web so that development teams can manage and maintain distributed HyperText Mark-up Language document projects. Mortice Kern has been working with Netscape for around seven months and says it has had interest in Integrity from users developing Intranets for tens of thousands of users that are desperate for version control. It claims it’s well ahead of traditional version control houses, including Atria Software Inc, Continuus Software Inc and Intersolv Inc, which don’t have HyperText Mark-up Language, implementations of their products. Mortice Kern says the Netscape bundling arrangement is a technology evangelizing deal rather than a money-spinner. It hopes Netscape Enterprise-MKS Integrity users will roll over into its $500 Source Integrity product – claimed to have 45,000 users – for their client-server version control requirements. Other Web server versions will follow – a Microsoft Corp release will be available free of charge from Mortice Kern’s Web site by the end of the month. Mortice Kern claims Integrity can archive anything created on the Web and stores changes made between them.
