VP/ix vs Merge
Evan Leibovitch
evan at telly.UUCP
Thu Mar 23 14:27:31 AEST 1989
In article <212 at libcmp.UUCP> ecu at libcmp.UUCP (Edward C. Unrein) writes:
>Unfortunately you are correct in you assumption of SCO's abandonment of VP/ix.
>This hasn't been released to the general public at this time, only minor hints
>via way of SCO's Discover publication.
Not to mention big displays at the SCO booth at Uniforum.
If had been a secret, it wasn't after San Francisco. The people at
the Locus booth were beaming.
>We have spoken with Interactive regarding same but have only received a
>response stating that they were part of VP/ix's development and are now in
>direct market conflict with Santa Cruz Operations.
Some speculation:
- While Interactive was able to offer only vp/ix, Locus had something
else SCO wanted - a commercial implementation of X, and products
for DOS that allow TCP/X11 intergration with SCO Unix. Locus may
have insisted on adapting Merge as part of the package.
- Remember now that Interactive is probably the #1 vendor of
386 SysV 3.2 until SCO releases theirs. The abandonment
of vp/ix probably represents an unwillingness on the part of
SCO to depend on its biggest (potential) competitor for such an
important element of its product.
--
Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
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