Sun is also working on a new release of its Open Systems Interconnection development environment to coincide with the release of Solaris 2.0. OSI 8.0 will be based on Unix System V.4 and include Streams capability, a full programming and development system, a network manager that will monitor the OSI stack at the node level, and other value-added services. It comes from Sun’s International Centre for Network Computing, based in Grenoble, France, which is headed-up by Jean-Pierre Baudouin: it is currently staffed by around 20 engineers. That’s part of Sun Connect, one of the three businesses under the wing of Sun Microsystem’s Technology Enterprises Inc.
