OpenPlus International Inc, an Australian-born developer of client-server business software, has followed many of its siblings that feel too cut off from the world markets back home and has decamped to Austin, Texas, in order to focus on the more lucrative North American market. The company has simultaneously launched a suite of Unix enterprise business software applications. Dubbed OpenPlus, the software suite includes OpenPlus Financials, OpenPlus Distribution, and OpenPlus Application Development Framework. The applications run under most variants of Unix, but the company is focusing on the major ones – HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Digital Unix. OpenPlus Financials and OpenPlus Distribution are for managing business accounting and distribution operations, and are comprised of 10 and six modules, respectively. Application Development Framework is a set of tools for modifying functions in the products. OpenPlus enables the migration and integration of legacy applications for most operating environments. Database administrators may distribute databases and manage these over many servers. OpenPlus designed the applications using Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems Plc’s systems engineering tool and Compuware Corp’s Uniface development environment. The company has completely redesigned its old high level language designs, which accounted for 47 financial and maintenance modules. The OpenPlus suite runs on all databases at the same time, and has support for Oracle, Informix, Sybase, SQL, and DB2, and runs ion OS/2, Motif, Windows95 and Macintosh clients. The Australian-born company also said that it is planning to develop new applications for OpenPlus, including personnel systems and manufacturing applications. The OpenPlus suite sells for $4,500 per user per server, and should be available immediately.
