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In article <ISHIKAWA.92Dec24181912@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp> ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp writes:
>According to a person who reads an article in a japanese newspaper,
>AT&T will sell 77 % of the stock it owns of USL to Novell.  So AT&T
>will probably be a big shareholder still (23%?).

AT&T doesn't own 100% of USL stock now... only about 70% or so, I think.
Another big shareholder is Sun.  Novell already held 5%, too.

>On the other hand, on workstation side (I mean SUN, and other
>workstatins), this sales to Novell makes whale of questions
>unanswered.

Sun already owns a slice of USL and will hold onto its slice under
the current agreement if I understand correctly.  Besides, Sun doesn't
need USL to market Solaris...

>Suddenly, Solaris (SunOS/SysVR4) doesn't look glittering in my eyes
>anymore. 

>What will USL do to keep U**X at the cutting edge of emerging
>technology?

What did AT&T ever do to keep Unix "at the cutting edge"..?!  If anyone
kept Unix at the cutting edge it was its users; UCB & friends, the vendors
who licensed SVRn, etc.  Besides, emerging technology has outpaced Unix...
SVR4 is merely a half-successful attempt to catch up.  (Note: Posix compliant
OSes can still be on the edge... just Unix(tm) isn't anymore, IMHO.)

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