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From: Dion_L_Johnson@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Is anyone out there developing for Open Desktop?  Eurodesk?
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Date: 4 Aug 89 04:24:07 GMT
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Dennis Moore recently asks:
  I am curious to hear of anyone developing for Open Desktop, particularly ISVs,
  particular database applications.
  -- Dennis Moore, my own opinions blah blah blah
The answer is yes, but you probably will not hear too much here for another
month or two.  Open Desktop (pre-release) is available to developers through
a special program offered by SCO.
One of the features of the program is a mutual
nondisclosure agreement, a purpose of which is to permit vendors to
announce their new products on Open Desktop at product rollout time, with
appropriate fanfare.  There is a newsgroup being distributed from UUNET,
but it's a privately circulated group for the ODT developers.  There is
a lot of development work going on (some hundreds of Open Desktop developer
kits have been sold), but it's all behind the scenes.  
Dion L. Johnson        SCO Developer Relations          dionj@sco.com