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Geneva - Chorus Systems SA (Paris) and SCO Inc. (formerly Santa Cruz Operation; Santa Cruz, Calif.) last week at Telecom 95 announced a strategic pact to bring a second-generation microkernel to the telecom arena (see related story, page 1).
The two disclosed a road map for creating "MK2," an upgraded microkernel combining SCO's OpenServer Release 5 with Chorus's microkernel on an Intel X86 binary platform. David Cuss, director and general manager of SCO's telecommunications division (Uxbridge, England), said that the project was planned long before Novell sold its UnixWare interests to SCO but that the sale would further consolidate efforts to bring MK2 into the Unix System V world.
Chorus has an expanded relationship with SunSoft Inc. that will allow many of the elements of the MK2 effort to be offered in Sparc worlds as well, and Chorus has plans to move MK2 features into Motorola PowerPC and 68XXX binary environments. Siemens Private Communications Systems already has pledged to purchase MK2 from SCO for phone systems.
If the Chorus plans pan out, the modularization of microkernel services will benefit not only Chorus but...