Santa Cruz Operation Inc wants to get into the emerging real-time Unix market and has turned to Paris-based Chorus Systemes SA – where Unix System Laboratories Inc is an investor – for its Chorus/MIX real-time kernel, which will be combined with Santa Cruz’s Open Desktop and Unix to create an environment that supports real-time processing and computer-clustering as well as providing the standard Santa Cruz functions on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based hardware. Under the agreement, both companies will be able to license and distribute the new product to OEM customers, resellers, systems integrators, and end users. The product will initially be designed first to support replicated-site applications in the telecommunications, point-of-sale, process and manufacturing control, and testing and simulation markets, but the partners see prospects from makers of data communications, bridges, routers, embedded systems and dedicated file and database servers. The first product under the pact will be a development kit from Chorus in December for companies that want to tailor systems for specific real-time or clustering capability.
