Unisys for Unix

Press, 9 August 1988, Page 31

Unisys for Unix

Mr Michael Blumenthal, the chairman and chief executive of Unisys, has given a strong message on Unix. Writing in the “Wall Street Journal” he said Unix was the nearest thing to a vendor-netural standard for writing software programs. By the early 1990 s it was likely to represent a quarter of all computer systems sold world wide. Mr Blumenthal urges AT and T and the Open Software Foundation to “go forward together in some fashion” with a single Unix development effort. He wants the whole computer user community, and especially the United States Government and the European Commission, to speed up such a standard. Unix for Unisys Unisys has signed a marketing agreement with an American Unix house, Informix Software. As a result Unisys in New Zealand will be working with Rakon Computers, the New Zealand agent for Informix, which will provide software for the Unisys U5OOO, U6OOO, and U7OOO series. This makes available for Unisys machines Informix’s line of SQL-based relational database systems. Informix 4GL is non-procedural, fourth-generation, database-programming language. The SQL includes menu creation, a query and data definition language, a formers generator, and a report writer. The SQL/C allows SQL statements to be embedded in C programs.