Many in the Unix industry had hoped that AT&T Co and the Open Software Foundation would have patched up their differences at last year’s UniForum show in Dallas, Texas, but here we are, one year on with two sharply polarised industry groups: even so we hear there were moves afoot before the show to attempt some sort of reconciliation between Unix International and the Foundation, centered around the common link of X/Open Group Ltd, and that at one stage a press conference on an agreement was pencilled in for Wednesday afternoon.