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Technology Stocks : Santa Cruz Operation (SCOC) Going Up? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Larry Levine who wrote (331)	9/30/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Peter van Steennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 656

Larry: Since you are an alum of Doug Michels, I presume you can call him and find out what is happening. Based on the two news releases today I doubt that caused the price increase. Volume was also up 100% by three pm edt. My guess they found someone to buy the company. Let us all know what you find out from Doug. Peter

To: Larry Levine who wrote (331)	10/1/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin	Respond to of 656

I don't know. Perhaps some fund manager got overexcited about the "news" that UnixWare is successfully running on an IA-64 proxy. I'm wondering how seriously Intel plans to support Linux. mb

To: Larry Levine who wrote (331)	10/23/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: jsuk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 656

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.