Now that it has completed its first round of equity investment and spun out some strategic initiatives into the joint venture with Novell Inc, Unix System Laboratories Inc is looking to get down to the serious business of shifting its various activities into separate units. Following the current fashion for restructuring, it is reorganising its management, marketing and development operations into nine business units – each will operate as a distinct profit centre. Mike DeFazio is overseeing the transition. The marketing and research and development divisions – headed respectively by Stan Dolberg and Dennis Wise – will provide services to each of the units. A new worldwide sales management team – comprising vice-president Joel Moss, Unix Labs Europe managing director Bob Mitze and Unix Labs Pacific managing director James Clark – will co-ordinate Unix Labs’s marketing efforts. The firm has US sales offices in Boston, Houston, San Jose and Summit, New Jersey. Its international efforts are handled out of London, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, New Dehli and Taipei. The Unix System V software organisation becomes an operating system business group with three units. A core operating system division is headed by Patrick Smyth, and will provide base Unix operating system technology for all markets. The low-end Unix division will concentrate on system software for desktop and server markets. A high end and real-time unit, headed by Jennie Brown, is to focus on corporate server, mainframe, real-time and micro-kernel Unix markets. Don McGovern, currently manager of the desktop Unix effort, keeps his job until the Destiny desktop is out of the door, sometime around mid-1992. The open solutions software organisation, formerly headed by Joel Applebaum, who has moved across to take charge of the Univel joint company with Novell, becomes the distributed computing group. Its three units will be managed by Andy Huffman. A transaction systems division will work with Tuxedo. An open networking systems unit under Wolf Bauer is to work with Unix Labs’s Open Systems Interconnection products, and the distributed computing planning and architecture division will work with customers to develop new networking products and with Unix International to make available the reference technologies in the latter’s Atlas distributed computing framework. Other new units created are services and technical support, publishing and documentation, and a programming systems operation will be set up next year to work with C++ and C language resellers and launch a new software tools division.
