Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!twwells!novavax!weiner From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: '' in pathnames Message-ID: <1366@novavax.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 89 02:05:52 GMT References: <8907031023.AA00439@umix.cc.umich.edu> Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL Lines: 30 In-reply-to: GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET's message of 3 Jul 89 10:23:15 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.5 of Tue Sep 15 1987 on novavax (berkeley-unix) > I am beginning to wonder if Apollo Inc is removing the Aegis shell > bit by bit. Can someone from Apollo.com gives us more details on the long > term direction of HP/Apollo? I'm sure someone at Apollo will answer but you don't really need an official answer to this question to clearly understand HP/Apollo's direction, at least at a high level. Many technical details have not been announced. HP's non-Apollo workstations will not run Aegis (maybe in the lab for fun, but not for the public). Apollo and HP want their machines to run the same operating system. Neither party really wants to be burdened with marketing a totally new operating system at this point. All that leaves is UNIX. In the HP/Apollo case, high level officials at both companies have voiced strong support for the OSF direction. OSF/1 and OSF/2 in all likelihood will be their major integration OS platform. Apollo is already known to be doing much work in Motif-based interfaces. HP is certainly not standing still either. UNIX. You can love it or hate it but every vendor can spell it and port it. And its better than IBM's SAA OSs (too numerous to count). So it's going to be here a long time. Apollo will support Aegis for a long time (possibly five years since they can't even get many of their own people off it) but they definitely are pushing customers and development efforts towards portable, UNIX based software. -- Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc., USENET: ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner (407) 738-2087