Gradient Technology Inc, Hudson, Massachusetts, the author of an implementation of the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Computing Environment for Microsoft Corp Windows 3.1, is negotiating an agreement with Novell Inc and Apple Computer Inc for a collaboration on development of Distributed Computing Environment products in their environments and is considering a DCE-Lite version for MS-DOS, according to Computer Reseller News. Gradient says it will go ahead with the NetWare and Macintosh iterations whether or not those companies play. The paper also says that Apple is negotiating with Novell to put the Mac interface on top of UnixWare. Oddly enough Unix System Laboratories Inc, when it was building Destiny, from which UnixWare derives, explored using the Mac interface and originally intended to make the interface that it finally created in-house much more Macintosh-like than it is.
