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- From: paul@actrix.co.at (Paul Gillingwater)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.novell,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Message-ID: <8Pk8VB3w165w@actrix.co.at>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:04:30 ECT
- References: <Bzo5zH.B6y@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
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- > jmatrow@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (John Matrow) writes:
- [re Novell acqusition of USL]
- > I'm wondering if other people could tell me what the implications
- > of this are.
-
- Hmmm... perhaps comp.sys.novell.unix.* hierarchies? :-)
-
- > Does this mean that Novell is stacking up Unix against Windows NT?
-
- Now that *is* an interesting question. Certainly, USL have been taking
- NT's threat very seriously. Microsquishy have a lot of marketing and
- distributing muscle, but the market will determine the ultimate winner.
-
- The interesting questions for me are:
-
- 1. Will Novell try to influence USL's development directions?
-
- 2. What will happen to the legal battle with BSD[I]?
-
- 3. What does Novell mean when they talk (in an internal message that
- leaked from novell.com) about "purifying" UNIX????
-
- > A bigger question than these anomalies though is what are the
- > implications for Unix? How important is USL?
-
- I'm sure you'll get different answers from BSD and OSF.
-
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- paul@actrix.co.at (Paul Gillingwater)
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