Unix System Laboratories Inc confirmed that it has taken up the baton of Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format technology from the Open Software Foundation and has signed a letter of agreement with the UK’s Defence Research Agency – the originator of the ANDF technology – to commercialise it for release with Unix System V.4.2. The goal of the agreement is to market and distribute technology with Unix System V.4.2 2 that will enable software vendors to write, package and distribute one single version of their applications that can run unchanged on laptops, workstations, servers, mainframes and even supercomputers, fromdifferent vendors and based on different microprocessors. Unix Labs and the UK Agency have agreed, pending successful evaluation and development of Ten15 Distribution Format technology for System V.4.2, to make TDF specifications publicly available.
