The Univel Inc joint venture of Novell Inc and soon-to-be-Novell subsidiary Unix System Laboratories Inc yesterday went onto the desktop Unix warpath by cutting prices for the desktop and application server versions of UnixWare, taking away one of the few remaining constraints to the rapid market adoption of Unix system as a client-server system for iAPX-86-based computers. At the same time, Univel expanded capabilities of the UnixWare Personal Edition to run MS-DOS and Windows applications under Unix. The UnixWare Personal Edition for desktop users is cut 50% to $250 and the UnixWare Application Server is cut 48% to $1,300; the software development kit is cut 40% to $600. While the previous implementation of UnixWare supported MS-DOS applications, the new one bundles the Windows Merge capabilities to support Windows 3.0 and 3.1 applications under Unix, previously a separately-charged item at $400.
