Having opened up the process of selecting technologies that surround the core System V.4 operating system beyond Unix System Laboratories Inc, Unix International plans to go to the industry at large for three technologies this year, according to president Peter Cunningham. The first will be for a standard way to support multimedia applications under Unix. The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management, following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group. The third area was not revealed, but it is thought to cover a Unix alternative for the Microsoft Corp Object Linking and Embedding and Dynamic Data Exhange technologies. Any company can submit technology, and Unix International members vote to find the winner. In order to get its technology accepted, a provider must agree to provide specs, application programming interfaces, test suites and general availability before being accepted.
