Univel Inc and Novell Inc say they are jointly developing extensions for UnixWare and its rival, Microsoft Corp’s Windows NT, so that the two can co-exist in NetWare environments, today’s issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports. Univel’s regional marketing manager for Europe, Bernard Moing, says our engineers are looking at NT code in co-operation with Novell and linking support will be available as soon as NT starts to ship. The process, Novell says, is relatively straightforward on the server side and will be developed using TCP/IP. Network File System will be configured to sit atop NT for straight file transfers. Client connection is more problematic as application requests from NT to UnixWare will have to be directed through the NetWare IPX/SPX protocol. Novell says that Microsoft is keen to have network interconnection with UnixWare to inherit its Unix base.
