Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dc4f+ From: dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Fwd: Hewlett-Packard - Sun Microsystems Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 18:43:23 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 52 this is pinched from the dow jones newswire. notice any workstation vendors of interest missing from this list? --dan. --- Dan Crimmins meritec!djc@uunet.uu.net ------------------------------ Forwarded message begins here: ------------------------------ From: DowJones@andrew To: bb+dow-jones@andrew Subject: Hewlett-Packard - Sun Microsystems Date: Mon, 25 Feb 91 13:11:49 -0500 (EST) REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -DJ- Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. said they signed a joint software development agreement with the goal of allowing easy application interoperability on high-volume computers in the 1990s. In a joint press release, the companies said that as a result of the agreement, users will be able to integrate data from systems made by different vendors located on one or more networks. Sun and Hewlett-Packard said they are undertaking several steps that will lead to creation of a common software environment that will be broadly available through licensing. First, the two companies submitted a jointly developed object management specification to an industry organization as a proposed standard. Next, they agreed to work through standards bodies to promote interoperability of NCS and ONC at the networking protocol level. Also, the companies said they will make a common distributed application environment for UNIX and other systems. SunSoft Inc., a new system software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard are working together on this unified software environment for UNIX, and for other systems such as DOS personal computers. Sun and Hewlett-Packard said they will license their open software technology to vendors of other UNIX software and hardware platforms, thus extending the benefits of this technology to more computers and applications. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories Inc., ONC is a trademark ofn Microsystems and NCS is a trademark of National Computer Systems Inc. 1:10 PM Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com