Banyan Systems Inc, Westborough, Massachusetts is said to be considering moving the native version of its Vines network operating system over to a new Unix kernel from the ancient one it presently uses, System V 3.0 and is looking at all of the major Unix providers, but a decision isn’t expected for at least 18 months; the transition will not affect the company’s existing Vines for Unix product, currently available for Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix and scheduled to go up under HP-UX, AIX and Solaris in the first, the second and third quarters of 1994 respectively.