VP/ix vs Merge

[Evan Leibovitch]

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.


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