The recent purchase of Ardent Software by the Informix Software Corp. has caused ripples of concern throughout the wholesale distribution software industry. Ardent is the developer of the UniVerse and UniData databases, which some wholesale distribution software providers use to build their distribution and warehouse management systems.
"The move caused some concern among some users of Ardent's database products as these products appear to be redundant with Informix' database products," according to a release from NxTrend Technology. "This has significant impact on the wholesale distribution marketplace as several software companies that have applications servicing distributors have written their products using Ardent's technology."