Although IBM UK was still sticking to its official line at the launch of the new PS/2 models last week that it would not be licensing OSF/1 from the Open Software Foundation, senior AIX staff have reportedly changed their position according to US press reports. William Filip, assistant general manager of IBM’s Advanced Workstation Division was quoted in Computer Systems News as saying that IBM had now agreed to license OSF/1, despite the fact that it licenses AIX-3 to the Foundation as the basis of OSF/1. The shift is said to be due to the added functionality, especially in areas such as memory management. OSF/1 also includes the Motif user interface, which IBM has already shown at trade shows. DEC has already committed to license OSF/1 and to migrate its Ultrix implementation over.
