Windows New Technology is now firmly on Unix specialist Ixos GmbH’s agenda: Computerwoche reports that the Grasbrun, Germany-based company has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp under which it will do a version of its graphical archive system for the operating system, which is expected to be released at the start of next year. To this end, Ixos has been given a preliminary version of NT already. Ixos’s interest in NT stems from its 32-bit architecture, and Microsoft has gone to the lengths of creating a system with a sufficiently large directory to cater for both Intel Corp iAPX-86-based systems and Ixos’s archive system. At the present moment, the archive system runs in Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme AG environments under Unix with the OSF/Motif graphical user interface.
