SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander, speaking at the recent Unix International members meeting in New Orleans that was closed to the press, issued a call to arms against Microsoft Corp, making a strong plea for the industry to come together and adopt common interface specifications and common marketing programmes. Apparently he suggested that the common Unix brand and the common interface specification be owned by the industry as represented by Unix International Inc. Of course that would have to mean Open Software Foundation founders Hewlett-Packard Co, Digital Equipmenmt Corp and IBM Corp taking part. Our spies tell us Hewlett-Packard and DEC would have come to the Unix International meeting if they weren’t so afraid to being found out. IBM unfortunately didn’t respond to the invitation.
