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Articles in February, 1996 issue of Software Industry Report

• Intergraph/Oracle effort to define next-generation component GIS software. (Intergraph Corp.; Oracle Corp.; Geographic Information System)
• Canadian retailers agree not to rent software without permission from publishers.
• Sun Microsystems prototype of low-cost PC uses Java to browse the Internet. (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
• Seagate merges software units.... (Seagate Technology Inc.)
• Germany's Daimler-Benz. (Daimler-Benz AG developing information and communications technologies with Microsoft Corp.)
• Applicon gets EDM/PDM tool.... (Applicon Inc.; engineering data management/product data management software)
• Netscape picks up VR know-how.... (Netscape Communications Corp.; virtual reality)
• US Air Force plans worldwide deployment of Tivoli Systems network management platform. (Tivoli Systems Inc.)
• Microsoft's Vermeer acquisition triggers Justice Department probe. (Microsoft Corp.; Vermeer Technologies Inc.)
• IBM Corp. (will market and sell Superscape Inc.'s virtual reality software)
• Cap Gemini sells YORVIK. (Cap Gemini America Inc.; YORVIK Client/Server Maintenance and Work Management product line)
• Dallas-based Davis Software Engineering. (Davis Software Engineering Inc. partnered with Samsung Telecommunications America to provide TSAPI Computer Telephony Integration software)
• SCO targets advanced Intel platforms with enterprise version of UnixWare. (Santa Cruz Operation Inc.; SCO UnixWare 2.1)
• Artisoft finds new niche.... (Artisoft Inc.)
• Kofax Image Products. (announced German version of Ascent Capture software)
• Interactive Java apps pact.... (Earth Web LCC; ACTV Inc.)
• NCSA downplays Boza virus; Trend Micro has cure for Windows 95 infection. (National Computer Security Association; Trend Micro Devices Inc.)
• Down under company launches world's 1st purely Java-based commercial software apps. (Noware)
• SPA urges strong copyright defense to protect 'digital highways.' (Software Publishers Association)
• Wal-Mart, Microsoft to launch online shopping service this spring. (Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Microsoft Corp.)
• PSINet subsidiaries combined....
• ESRI. (Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. announced Japanese version of ArcView Version 2.1 for Windows desktop geographic information system)
• TGV Software Inc. (announced French and German versions of MultiNet for Windows enterprise internetworking software)
• Derivatives tool merger.... (C.ATS Software Inc.; LOR/Geske Bock Associates Inc.)
• Global sales of connectivity, management software products grow 32 percent in 1995.
• Hitachi Ltd. of Japan. (will integrate and distribute Object Technology Group Inc.'s advanced storage software)
• SGI licenses Orbix.... (Silicon Graphics Inc.; object technology software)
• Eighty percent of Web site development funds spent on custom software, integration.
• Face of Unix/NT battle changes with Softway tool that makes NT a Unix system. (Softway Inc.'s OpenNT)
• GTE. (GTE Corp. signed agreement with Siemens AG's Public Communication Networks Group)
• Impromptu integrated into DB2.... (Cognos Inc.' Impromptu database reporting software; IBM's open data warehousing software)
• Microsoft Corp., Visa International alliance to offer electronic home banking system.
• Netscape helping SCO create commercial, Unix-based Internet solutions. (Netscape Communications Corp.; Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)