Meanwhile, sources tell us that PowerPCers at IBM Corp, Apple Computer Inc and Motorola Inc have been chatting recently to UniSoft Ltd, Novell Inc’s software conversion arm for non-mainstream systems, et al, about getting UnixWare implemented for the PowerPC. Now if you were to listen to the Novell side of things, you would think that IBM was ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater as far as Solaris is concerned – and of course substitute UnixWare – purportedly after realising that Solaris was not going to sell very well. IBM’s point of view about things, we’ve been given to understand, might be a tad more modulated. It just wants to sell as many boxes as possible and so will countenance any operating system on the PowerPC – the more software, the more boxes sold it reasons. It wants all variants of Unix on the chip.