Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:37:56 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Unixware Message-ID: <3157.830522276@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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Seven switch to the Unixware standard ------------------------------------- The dream of a single flavour of Unix came a step closer last week, as the seven firms that resell the operating system on Intel platforms agreed to ditch their own versions and standardise on Unixware. SCO, owner of the SVR4 version of Unix, has finally persuaded the SVR4-on-Intel resellers, such as NCR and Unisys, to adpot Unixware, the binary, shrink-wrapped, SVR4 developed during Novell's ownership of Unix. But the deal still leaves the major non-SVR4, non-Intel Unix vendors - Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun - ploughing their own furrow. Many of the seven SVR4 resellers - Compaq, Data General, ICL, NCR, Olivetti, Siemens-Nixdorf and Unisys - already run Unixware on their low-end Unix machines. During the next year all of them will migrate to running Unixware on all their machines, including symmetric multiprocessors and clusters. "Swapping to binary-code Unixware instead of their own source-code versions of SVR4 will make it easier for them to take up the 64bit version when it arrives in 1998" said Mike Shelton, SCO's vice-president for enterprise solutions. "But it also makes it cheaper and easier for the software vendors to have only a single, Unixware version to port to. It can cost about $1m for every Unix port." Consolidating on Unixware will also mean future enhancements, such as support for clustering and large files and memory, will be available to all SVR4 resellers simultaneously. "This is a long overdue move towards single Unix," said Mike Martin, general manager of technology at ICL,which has been using Unixware on all it's Unix boxes for a year. "The operating system will cease to be a unique selling poing, instead we'll compete on things like high-availability technology or the quality of our service." (taken from the Computer Weekly in the UK. Article by Julia Vowler. Spelling errors and typos by me)
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