Visionware Ltd was a British software company that developed and marketed products that helped integration of Microsoft Windows clients to Unix-based server applications.

[1] Its success was based around selling systems built around OEM components from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC),[2] and it had grown to have some 1200 employees with turnover of around £40 million.

Systime then focused on selling products built by its own engineers,[1] and placed a greater emphasis on innovation in software technologies.

[6] As one former SCO UK employee has succinctly summarised, "Visionware specialised in software that ran on Windows that made Unix easier to use.

[15][17] In addition to the North American operation, the firm also had smaller European ones in Bonn and Paris, where area marketing and communications staff were based, as well as one in Sydney, Australia.

[18] On 12 December 1994, the Santa Cruz Operation announced that it had acquired Visionware for $14.75 million in cash and a small amount of stock.

[15] The Visionware brand continued until 1995 when the company, now a business unit of SCO, was merged with IXI to form IXI Visionware, Ltd.[22] Later that year the merged business unit was subsumed more fully into its parent and became the Client Integration Division of SCO, which put out both sets of products under the "Vision" branded family name.