Santa Cruz Operation Inc’s UnixWare will be phased out a lot quicker than OpenServer once the best bits from both are combined in next year’s Gemini release (CI No 2,856). The majority of the device drivers in Gemini will be from Unix-Ware, said Santa Cruz chief technology officer Doug Michels, apparently they’re a lot cleaner in System V.4 than the Open-Server ones, and therefore there’s more work to be done in converting OpenServer users to Gemini. UnixWare will not be actively promoted by Santa Cruz after Gemini, just supported. As each dot release of OpenServer comes out, the new features will be added to Gemini, Michels said, and support for OpenServer users will have to continue for some time after Gemini emerges in mid-1997.
