Smart Partner: IBM Kills Project Monterey Aug 18, 2000, 21 :48 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (6239 reads) (Other stories by Jacqueline Emigh)
"IBM is killing off Project Monterey, a joint venture with The Santa Cruz Operation, while giving birth to a
new OS. AIX RL, a future Unix OS able to run on both Intel IA-64 and IBM's own Power chip, will
integrate Linux alongside some of the technologies from Monterey."
"At the same time, though, we're also focusing Linux on a brand new market of people who might not
know anything about AIX," said Scott Handy, IBM's director for Linux solutions marketing, during a
technical session at this week's Solutions 2000 developers' conference in Las Vegas."
"IBM's multifaceted moves to Linux go a long way toward opening up the company's commercial code
base. This is a far cry from the IBM of old, which once teamed up with Hewlett-Packard and Digital
Equipment Corp. to create the Open Software Foundation (OSF), whose sole purpose was to splinter Unix
and protect its members' respective proprietary OSes."
