Borland International Inc’s InterBase division is appointing new distributors for its relational database in Scandinavia, Benelux, Eastern Europe, the Gulf, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, India and Japan. Staffing levels are to be increased in all of its 17 international offices: European staff numb-ers will double to 80. Canadian software developer Cognos Inc will continue to […]
Borland International Inc’s InterBase division is appointing new distributors for its relational database in Scandinavia, Benelux, Eastern Europe, the Gulf, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, India and Japan. Staffing levels are to be increased in all of its 17 international offices: European staff numb-ers will double to 80. Canadian software developer Cognos Inc will continue to sell StarBase, its version of InterBase, but the product will revert back to the InterBase name. Borland refused to disclose international sales figures for InterBase but said it hoped to double what it claims is a 3.6% share of the Unix database market in Europe over the next year. It claims 10,000 sites worldwide with 400 in Europe. Borland has no plans to downgrade its dBase and Paradox database efforts or to encourage these database users to migrate to InterBase. Steven Husk, strategic sales director for Borland InterBase Europe, said the company will release Quattro Pro, dBase, ObjectVision and Borland C++ SQL links to the InterBase database in the first half of 1993. The object-oriented extensions will enable personal computer clients to manage InterBase data as though it were local to the system. Borland will put Interbase up under Microsoft Corp NT, Novell Inc NetWare, IBM Corp OS/2 and on Digital Equipment Corp Alpha systems in the first quarter of next year.
