IBM/SCO/INTEL alliance !!!
I think someone new something a little ahead of time. I believe that this will be officially announced on Monday next week. It looks like someone leaked some info today. Buy now as this baby is going to at least take a short term jump.
> Read Computergram on the web at:
> computerwire.com
>
> New York, Published: October 23 1998
> Issue Number 3523
>
> *** COMBINED ISSUE ***
>
> + IBM TRIES ONCE AGAIN TO UNIFY UNIX THROUGH COMMON APIs
>
> IBM Corp will announce its AIX-on-Merced play on Monday, but it
> is also expected to steer the Unix industry once again towards
> the illusive holy grail of a single development target for
> ISVs, by forging a new relationship with Santa Cruz Operation
> Inc. Insiders say the plan is to establish common interfaces
> that will enable ISVs to write applications that will run on a
> range of 32- bit and 64-bit based Unixes that run on both
> Intel, and PowerPC. While AIX, SCO and its UnixWare crowd are
> definitely in, Compaq Computer Corp and supporters of its
> next-generation Bravo Unix were still wavering as we went to
> press. Sun Microsystems Inc's Solaris x86 is not in the mix.
> Industry observers will guess that whether Compaq, which does
> $2bn on 32-bit Intel servers running SCO, is officially there
> or not is a moot point insofar as the company has already
> engineered the Bravo Unix project such that its APIs will be
> compatible with SCO. Bravo Unix, Compaq's next- generation of
> the Digital Unix product is also supported by its Tandem unit
> and Sequent Computer Systems Inc. Compaq, Data General Corp,
> Intel Corp, Unisys Corp and ICL Plc have all previously
> bank-rolled SCO's 64-bit enterprise UnixWare development, and
> are all expected to stand up and be counted on Monday. Unisys
> will supposedly be dragged to the party kicking and screaming
> as its preferred flavor of server operating system is Windows
> NT, and if it were honest would come clean and confess that its
> days of Unix are numbered. The net effect will be a single
> route to 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC and Intel Unix platforms,
> though it's not clear how the API effort will be engineered.
> It's a boon for SCO's aim to be the leading volume Unix on
> IA-64 like it is on IA-32 and should open up a big enough
> applications base to encourage reluctant IBM users to test AIX-
> on-Merced waters if they choose. |
