In an apparent effort to make Solaris 2.0 almost indistinguishable from Destiny, Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunSelect last week announced immediate availability of NetWare Sunlink software, for integrating Novell Inc NetWare networks with Sparc and Solaris environments. The product, based on NetWare for Unix 3.11, enables MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2 NetWare systems to share data, files and print services with Unix workgroups. NetWare Sunlink will offer the only available transparent NetWare gateway to Network File System files. Oracle Corp and Ingres Corp say they are supporting the product. NetWare Sunlink will move through Sun direct worldwide, SunExpress, Computerland Corp and Access Graphics Inc in the US, Merisel DNS Inc and Scheider & Koch in Germany, Bacher in Austria and some Novell distributors in the UK and France. A 10-client right-to-use licence goes for $1,000 and a 250-user licence costs $11,000. SunSelect figures its first market is the existing Sparc base 25% of which has NetWare. Meantime WordPerfect Corp and SunSoft Inc have signed a technology sharing agreement to cooperate on developing future versions of WordPerfect software for Solaris. And Sun Microsystems and Xerox Corp are extending their alliance and are now teaming up to develop and market turnkey document and information management systems for the manufacturing and utilities industries combining Sun Sparcstations and Xerox software.
