Otley, West Yorkshire-based Orion Network Communications Ltd, owned by Pi Holdings group, has written a version of its Orionet communications software product in native code for IBM’s AS/400 which is claimed to be Systems Application Architecture-compliant and contains an interface to AS/400 Office, IBM’s office automation package: Orionet/AS400 is compatible with earlier versions of Orionet for IBM’s System 36 and 38 and is a modular product enabling users to select only the modules they need, with the facility to expand later; it costs about UKP10,000, and is distributed directly by Orion in the UK and US, and also by Infonet.
