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From: edwardm@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Death of OS/2? (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?)
Message-ID: <108170009@hpcuhd.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 91 00:21:35 GMT
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Charles Hawkins Mingo writes:

>	According to the Wall Street Journal, MS owns an operation called
> (I believe) The San Jose Project (I'm sorry I can't remember the city) which
> just happens to be the largest single producer of Unix packages.

>	San Jose makes Unix for 386/486 types of machines.  Not NeXT's
> or Suns (which I presume you are using now).

I'm sure WSJ was referring to Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) which I believe
is partially (10%) owned by MicroSoft.

Together, MS and SCO support Xenix and SCO Unix (as well as other popular
products).  Between these two unix-es (some object to Xenix being called
a unix), they certainly supply an enourmous percentage (>80%) of the installed
unix operating systems.  I don't know the breakdown between the two, however.

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