Trados has signed an agreement with Eurolux Computers whereby the latter’s extensive electronic dictionaries in Mercury/Termex format will now also be available in MultiTerm format. Counting all language pairs, Eurolux offers more than a thousand dictionaries in a multitude of technical and professional fields. Mercury/Termex (known as MTX in the US), the first terminology management program for the PC, was developed by Alan Melby’s company LinguaTech, of Provo, Utah (usa). Thanks to the extensive efforts of Eurolux, its exclusive European distributor, Termex has probably the widest installed base of any terminology package. Under the terms of agree-ment, Eurolux will also be marketing the Trados software, concentrating on the French-speaking market. In turn, Trados will be marketing a new LinguaTech package, MTX-Reference, as a low-cost term tool. According to Trados’s Jochen Hummel, any potential conflict of interest between his company and competitor LinguaTech was avoided because the latter has no plans to issue Windows software in the near future.

Eurolux Computers, 11, rue de Wormeldange, Gonderange, L-6180, Luxembourg, Tel +352 789 443, Fax +352 789 820

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