Although stateside gossip recently had it that Hitachi Ltd would soon be ready with its own Unix on its mainframes, latest rumours suggest that BASF AG’s Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH – a European OEM customer for Hitachi Data Systems’ IBMulators is tired of waiting, and may be close to signing a deal with IBM Corp for its already proven AIX/ESA 2.1 mainframe version of Unix, an implementation of OSF/1.
