With Provo, Utah-based Novell Inc now stepping up the campaign to get the long-gestating UnixWare version of Unix System V up beside other Unix-on-iAPX-86 operating systems on major vendors’ price lists, the software should win endorsements from IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp shortly. Novell has already picked up the likes of ICL Plc, Unisys Corp, Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA, and most recently Hewlett-Packard Co as customers for the desktop Unix – these companies will offer UnixWare either alongside or instead of the rival Unix-on-Intel implementations from Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc on the iAPX-86 kit they supply. IBM already offers MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, Windows NT, Santa Cruz Unix and Open Desktop on its PS/2s – DEC currently supplies Santa Cruz system software as the only Unix option on its Intel boxes.
