Versant Object Technology Corp, Menlo, California says it is now shipping its object database management system for both the NeXT Inc line of computers and for IBM Corp’s OS/2 2.0. Versant developed the NeXT version as part of an agreement a NeXT customers, Williams Telecommunications Co of Houston. The Versant object database for NeXT supports both C and C++ development and is the first commercially available object database for the line. It is on special at $2,000 until March 31. The OS/2 version uses a 32-bit, multi-process architecture and exploits OS/2 2.0’s multitasking to perform tasks involving concurrent operations such as reading from disk while analysing data in memory. It supports the Glockenspiel C++ compiler, with other compilers to follow. It will be $2,000 until March 31, and $4,000 thereafter.
