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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (20064)	4/8/1999 7:44:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	of 74651

cheryl: This says it as well as anything Linux is another one of these- Compaq joins UNIX unification effort led by IBM HOUSTON, April 7 (Reuters) - Compaq Computer Corp. on Wednesday joined an industry alliance seeking to unify the fractured market for UNIX, a software operating system used to control powerful business computers. Compaq said it joined the Monterey alliance led by Santa Cruz Operation Inc. and IBM . The group is co-developing a version of UNIX that brings together many of the rival flavors of the business computer software system. Compaq said it will support the group's efforts to forge a unified version of UNIX designed to operate on computers running Intel Corp's forthcoming generation of high-volume 64-bit microprocessors. UNIX is a powerful computer operating system used to run industrial strength computer operations like phone networks, stock markets and retail inventory tracking systems. But since its development 30 years ago, UNIX has fragmented into a series of niche markets as each computer maker designed its own version of the software, leaving a hodgepodge market of UNIX computers that can not easily work together. John

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