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Novell, Inc.'s Univel subsidiary is planning a make-over of UnixWare that will tie the operating system tightly to NetWare 4.X, incorporate TCP/IP support and provide symmetric multiprocessing capabilities.
Sources briefed by Novell said Univel plans to bring out by the end of this quarter a new version of UnixWare Personal Edition and UnixWare Application Server that can access the directory, security, management and other services provided by NetWare 4.01. The current UnixWare is only compatible with NetWare 3.11.
UnixWare Personal Edition 1.1 will also have built-in support for the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The current release uses Novell's Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) transport protocol, with TCP/IP support provided through an add-on product that cost users about $200.
Early next year, Univel is expected to announce a symmetric multiprocessing version of UnixWare that the company will position as an application server in NetWare environments.
This would put UnixWare squarely into competition with Windows NT, which...