Prime Computer Inc’s Framingham, Massachusetts-based PrimeService Inc – soon, as we understand it, to be part of a new quoted company called Computervision Corp, has launched Connection NetWare for Sparc, which it describes as an open architecture version of Novell Inc’s NetWare operating system running under Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunOS version of Unix. The company says that it enables MS-DOS, OS/2 and Apple Computer Inc Macintosh users to share data, print services and applications on Sparc systems while retaining the existing operating environments; certified by Novell Inc, the product will be sold directly and through manufacturers and resellers. It costs $5,800 for an unlimited user licence.
