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IBM and SCO forge new UNIX API alliance

by Dwight Johnson

IBM will announce on Monday its plan to establish common
interfaces that will enable ISVs to write applications that will
run on a range of 32-bit and 64-bit based UNIXes that run on both
Intel, and PowerPC.

This plan, which will attempt to unify the UNIX world, does not
presently include Linux, but will be a boon for SCO’s aim to be the
leading volume Unix on IA-64 like it is on IA-32.

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