SmartStar Corp of Goleta, California has created a UK subsidiary, Oxford based SmartSystems (UK) Ltd, to market and support version 6.0 of its SmartStar application development environment: Ed Holt, former UK managing director of IBM financial software supplier Management Science America until its takeover by Dun & Bradstreet Corp in 1989, and subsequent consultant at UK CASE outfit Software One Ltd of Marlow, has set up the operation with venture capital from London-based Chinon Investments Ltd; SmartStar, first developed in 1984 for the DEC VMS market, is based on the Rapid Application Development method for rapid prototyping; SmartStar plans an Ultrix version.
