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- From: 0005507197@mcimail.com (Lee Leitner)
- Subject: Novell to buy USL
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:26:00 GMT
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- In the New York Times this am:
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- Novell to buy AT&T's Unix System Laboratories for $350m [the motherlode of Unix
- System V].
-
- "Industry executives and analysts said that the decision to put the Unix
- operating system under the control of a single independent software publisher
- set the stage for a direct confrontation with Microsoft.
-
- "The sale of USL marks the second stage of AT&T's decision to gradually
- relinquish control over the operating system program that has served as the
- d8battlegroud for many of the battles for the control of the direction of the
- computer industry since the mid-80's. [Novell has been a shareholder in USL
- since AT&T sold a minority share in USL in 91].
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- The article reports that the h/w & s/w value of the Unix worldwide market in 91
- as $17 billion or about 11.6 of the market for com-l
- cial systems [source:
- A+IDC].
-
- Should be an interesting future for Unix.... but will it still be "open"??
-
-
- Lee Leitner
- leitnerl@mcimail.com
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