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To: Marc Newman who wrote (13006)	5/7/1998 12:34:00 AM
From: Spytrdr	Respond to of 213177

Microsoft to further NT-Unix connectivity By Bob Trott InfoWorld Electric Posted at 6:42 PM PT, May 5, 1998 Continuing its interoperability-in-the-enterprise push, Microsoft will unveil a new Windows NT-Unix connectivity initiative at the NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, according to sources. The Windows NT Service for Unix initiative will be a theme of the keynote speech of Jim Allchin, senior vice president of Microsoft's personal and business systems group, sources close to the software giant said. Microsoft will team up with third-party vendors for some platforms, the sources said. One possible avenue could be Microsoft support for Network File System (NFS) resources, one source familiar with Microsoft's NT-Unix plans said. Microsoft has been working on a branded version of NFS for Windows NT for some time, the source said. In its push to the enterprise, Microsoft officials have acknowledged that the Redmond, Wash., company must allow corporations to leverage their existing system -- linking NT systems with Unix systems, rather than counting on Unix being phased out soon. "Large enterprises need to have solutions to do that -- not necessarily allowing [NT] to host Sun Unix but letting the management capabilities in NT embrace it," said Rob Enderle, senior analyst at Giga Information Group, in Santa Clara, Calif. "A Unix environment could be managed with NT's tools." Microsoft Corp. is at microsoft.com.