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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!gumby!wmu-coyote!john From: john@sol.cs.wmich.edu (John Kapenga) Subject: Re: Novell giving Unix to X/OPEN??? Message-ID: <1993Sep22.163632.2033@sol.cs.wmich.edu> Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept. References: <1993Sep21.091227.19597@resonex.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 16:36:32 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1993Sep21.091227.19597@resonex.com>, michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes: > In yesterday's NYTimes (a friend told me this, I did not see it) there > is supposedly an article discussing Novell's expected announcement (today) > that they will be giving Unix to X/OPEN, or some such thing. > > What's going on here? What are the specifics? Since X/Open is a From a terse note in Open Systems. Novell will keep UNIX, but will no longer work on OS development. Novel's USG will concentrate on "shrink wrapped" applications that will run "anywhere", with Intel paltforms being the only focus for these applications, leaving portability of applications (not UNIX!) up to others. If true, I guess I'm not surprised. I think I'll give up and move to some other profession. (If you buy the dog you can strave the dog? At least he won't bark at your heels. Now if Novell was only big enough to buy Microsoft :-) ) cheers ? - john -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ John A. Kapenga Department of Computer Science Ma Bell: (616)387-5657 Western Michigan University Internet: john@cs.wmich.edu Kalamazoo, MI 49008