Packard Co is promising users of both its own and Apollo Computer’s 68030-based workstations board-level upgrades to the 68040 processor when it is available in quantity from Motorola Inc. The company said that Apollo, running as a Division in its present headquarters in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, would be part of the Workstation Group, based in Sunnyvale, California. All the current Apollo products will continue, but a merger management organisation has been created to speed the process of integrating Apollo, its products, people, processes and organisations into one unified business. It named its own man, David Perozek, who joined Hewlett in 1973 and was most recently general manager of the imaging and obstetrical care unit, to succeed Thomas Vanderslice as general manager of the Apollo Division. The first Open Software Foundation-compliant operating system from the company should come out next year.
