ACI Buys StarNine Technologies

ACI US, makers of the high-end 4D relational database, have purchased StarNine Technologies, makers of the WebSTAR Server Suite and ListSTAR, from Platinum Equity Holdings. The acquisition provides ACI with significantly beefed-up presence in the Macintosh Web server market, plus the code and personnel to improve 4D’s position as a Web-enabled database. Since Web publishing has increasingly been supported by back end databases, it would seem likely that we’d see additional integration between WebSTAR and 4D in the future.