UnixWare and NetWare are due to converge by 1997 appearing as two personalities sitting on top of a microkernel. Both operating systems will eventually be object-oriented, and Unix Systems Group is already designing object-oriented application development tools. However Unix Systems Group has focused its development work on the Chorus Systemes SA microkernel, while the NetWare group has thus far concentrated its NetWare efforts on Mach. Novell says it is still evaluating which technology best fits its needs and may even take the best of both. Meanwhile, it adds that the work being done by members of Chorus’s Stream project will be fed back into Unix Technology Group.
