To all, it is so quite again - nothing posted in more than a week. In the past week, SCO announced a targeted release strategy for Unixware 7 (the released version of Gemini while OpenServer remains a separate product). Unixware 7 received a very positive review in the November 15 issue of Varbusiness. Below is an excerpt of the article:
"We frequently write about products that "make or break" their manufacturers. This is the first time, however, we cover one that can make or break an entire branch of the industry. That branch centers on Unix, the venerable and enduring OS that has persevered even as Banyan Vines, OS/2 and, yes, even Novell NetWare, have suffered disastrous declines. Now, however, faces its toughest fight, as Microsoft Corp. introduces Windows NT Server into the enterprise.
No one disputes Unix's current technological edge. The worry is that technology alone may not prevail, especially as Microsoft ramps up marketing machine. Many in the Unix community believe survival lies in coming up with a low-cost, Intel-based Unix flavor whose feature set blasts NT's out of the water. And some were banking on The Santa Cruz Inc.'s Gemini beta, which was supposed to combine the best features of SCO's popular OpenServer and UnixWare, the high-performance NOS SCO bought from Novell Inc. in December 1995. The script was changed sometime over the summer, however, and SCO is now releasing Gemini as UnixWare 7, while OpenServer remains a separate product.
Nevertheless, our Gemini VAR beta testers, Chris Daniels of DLPTechnologies Inc. and Evan Leibovitch of Sound Software Ltd., are pleased UnixWare offers "the best of both worlds," according to Daniels, especially likes the product's improved TCP/IP stack and mail server. Although he and Leibovitch eagerly await the fully merged OS, both say that this release should forestall any NT incursions and perhaps win some defectors back."
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