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To: rudedog who wrote (33025)	9/16/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: Eddie Kim	Respond to of 97611

Thanks for the response. Very frustrating to see other internet companies get all the press while AV just languishes...

To: rudedog who wrote (33025)	9/16/1998 9:16:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Heavyweights unite behind interface for Unix servers By Lisa DiCarlo, PC Week Online September 16, 1998 9:55 am ET PALM SPRINGS, Calif. --- In a rare show of solidarity for the Unix community, four companies on Wednesday will announce a unified driver model, called the Unix Driver Interface, for Unix servers based on Intel Corp. (INTC) processors. The announcement will be made during a keynote speech here at Intel's Developer Forum by John Miner, vice president and general manager of the company's Enterprise Server Group. The four vendors are Compaq Computer Corp. with its Digital Unix, Hewlett-Packard Co. with HP/UX, SCO Inc. with UnixWare and Sun Microsystems Inc. with Solaris. The initiative is important to the historically fragmented Unix market because currently server companies and third-party independent hardware vendors must write a different set of peripheral drivers for each version of Unix. That process is time consuming, and it doesn't ensure that vendors with smaller Unix-on-Intel market share (such as Sun) will have widespread driver support for their operating system. Under the new scheme, server makers and independent hardware vendors will write just one set of Unix drivers that work across the four versions of Unix. "We want to help define a clear standard for [independent hardware vendors'] peripherals,'' said Justin Rattner, an Intel Fellow and director of the company's Server Architecture Lab in Hillsboro, Ore. "We will bring [to Unix] the volume server benefits of Windows NT and NetWare.'' "This will result in lower cost and will drive volume economies [of Unix] and give users more choice,'' added Ray Anderson, vice president of marketing at SCO in Santa Cruz, Calif. Intel will make development tools and specifications available by year's end, with commercially available products expected as early as the first half of 1999. The Unix Driver Interface will be implemented on 32-bit Intel platforms in the short term and 64-bit platforms starting with the Merced processor in mid-2000.