[301] in DCNS Development
Re: "common software being pushed"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Thu Mar 18 11:57:10 1993
To: developers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:54:50 EST
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@Athena.MIT.EDU>
I suggest you look at the right-most column on page B1 of yesterday's wall
street journal. Entitled "Unix Program's Suppliers Adopt Joint Approach",
it more or less says that everyone has joined a new alliance built around
Sun, Novell and SCO to push a common look-and-feel programming interface
fall the now disparate workstation environments. The push is to fight off
NT. HP and IBM among others are joining in this time instead of going
their own way. Next has been dis'ed.
- Rob Smyser
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From: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
To: developers@MIT.EDU
Subject: "Common software being pushed"
Cc: dcnsm@MIT.EDU
Can anyone shed any useful light on this Reuters report that found its way out
as a little blurb on 3/17 Boston Globe biz pages:
Leading computer workstation makes will announce a common
operating system platform to head off new competition by
Microsoft Corp. in their high-end comuting environment,
analysts predicted. Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Sun Microsystems,
and other companies plan an announcement of a new version of
UNIX system software at the opening oof the UniForum Conference
in San Francisco. Industry sources say the companies will
announce they will develop a unitied operating system to
replace a patchwork of incompatible UNIX software. ...
Thanks,
Tim
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