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From the UK industry newspaper "Computer Weekly", June 2nd 1988, quoted
without permission....


		DEC SEES NEW UNIX VERSION BY AUTUMN
		       by Terry Ernest-Jones

    "A version of UNIX suuporting the first set of Open Software
     Foundation standards has been promised by DEC for this autumn,
     as AT&T pours scorn on its rival's prospects.

    "It is ironic that DEC should be the first foundation member to
     declare support of its standards,  since DEC's Ultrix ... was
     rejected by other members as the basis for the operating system.
     Instead a future version of IBM's AIX was chosen.

    "...AT&T's vice president of sales for data systems, Gordon Bridge,
     says he doesn't expect to see any serious foundation products in
     his lifetime.  "It'll either cater for the lowest common denominator,
     or its members willbe given options and you won't have a standard"
     [Bridge said].

    "Many see AT&T's heated attacks on the foundation as proof of the
     threat it poses.

    "AT&T's Unix partner, Sun Microsystems, takes a different view of
     the foundation ...  Sun's president, Scott McNealy, says "If we can
     get the Unix world down to two operating systems - and we get half,
     that's fine by me."