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Item 2976688 93/03/19 10:41
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: NeXT Public Statement on the Uniforum/UNIX Unification Announcements
NeXT Public Statement on the Uniforum/UNIX Unification Announcements
UNIX LEADERS ANNOUNCE COMMON OPEN SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT (COSE)
"SAN FRANCISCO (MARCH 17) BUSINESS WIRE - Worldwide UNIX system leaders
Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., The Santa Cruz Operation Inc., Sun
Microsystems Inc., Univel and UNIX System Laboratories Inc. Wednesday
announced their intent to deliver a common open software environment across
their UNIX system platforms...."
NeXT applauds efforts driven by HP and IBM to begin to unify core elements of
the Unix operating system. NeXT has been and will continue to follow these
developments closely. We actively endorse these efforts, particularly the goal
of creating a common, portable API layer. We have an engineering team
evaluating how a future version of NeXTSTEP could support this layer, and how
NeXTSTEP's leadership in object-oriented systems might add value to emerging
Unix API standards.
"Besides challenging Microsoft, the new Unix alliance deals a serious blow to
the already reeling NeXT Inc., led by Steven P. Jobs. Mr. Jobs, who last
month abandoned his computer business in favor of pushing NeXT's operating
program, has been scrambling to win the support of Sun, H-P, Novell and
others....
"Edward Zander, chief of Sun's software unit, said the alliance decided to
reject Mr. Jobs' software and embrace a set of specifications, called an
interface, that will make applications written for any variant of Unix look
and work the same to a customer. "We never considered NeXT ...because their
software never developed a big enough following," Mr. Zander said.
Sun's comments about NeXT and NeXTSTEP are completely inaccurate. Indeed,
beyond defining how NeXTSTEP can add value to these emerging standards, NeXT
is also working closely with individual members of the new Unix coalition.