Meanwhile, Novell Inc looks to be about ready to abandon its requirement that a computer line have 1m-plus units in the field before it will consider moving UnixWare or NetWare to it. We understand work will start as soon as this week or next to convert the forthcoming UnixWare 2.0 symmetric multiprocessing release for PowerPC. The task is apparently an outside job being undertaken by a specialist conversion house. Unisoft Ltd, which has been used before for test suites, springs to mind. Novell maintains that it is just a prototype and that it has not yet got plans to turn the implementation into a product, but it’s hard to see it being left in a drawer after good money’s been paid out.
