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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Imminent death of UNIX predicted
- Message-ID: <BzqJ7x.5n5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:14:21 GMT
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- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- From the December 22, 1992 issue of the _Wall Street Journal_, page
- B1. Reprinted without permission.
-
- Novell Agrees To Buy AT&T's Unix System
-
- Novell Inc. gained a weapon in its battle with Microsoft Corp.,
- agreeing to purchase American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s Unix System
- Laboratories for about $360 million in stock.
-
- The deal gives Novell control of Unix, a computer operating system
- that is widely used with high-perfoamnce desktop computers called
- workstations. In return, AT&T, which long has wanted to make a
- graceful exit from the operating-system business, gains a 3% stake in
- Novell, the second-largest supplier of PC software after Microsoft.
- Other shareholders of Unix System (sic) will get a 1% interest in
- Novell.
-
- [...]
-
- After the announcement yesterday, concern that Novell was paying too
- much for Unix drove down its shares, which closed at $27.25, off
- $1.50, in national over-the-counter trading.
-
- [...]
-
- "We're kind of like the parent of the bride," said [Robert M.] Kavner,
- who once spearheaded AT&T's computer strategy. With Novell, Unix is
- "in the right hands," he said.
-
- [...]
-
- [After seeing Univel's UnixWare, I'm really scared for the future of
- Unix. Univel took SVR4.2 and ruined it completely...I just hope that
- Novell doesn't do the same thing with Unix in general. Is this the
- price we have to pay for Unix on the desktop?]
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-