Unix International: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Latest revision as of 05:48, 5 April 2023

Unix International (UI) was an association created in 1988 to promote open standards, especially the Unix operating system. Its most notable members were AT&T and Sun Microsystems, and in fact the commonly accepted reason for its existence was as a counterbalance to the Open Software Foundation (OSF), itself created in response to AT&T's and Sun's Unix partnership of that time. UI and OSF thus represented the two sides of the Unix wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In May 1993, the major members of both UI and OSF announced the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) initiative. This was followed by the merging of UI and OSF into a "new OSF" in March 1994, which in turn merged with X/Open in 1996, forming The Open Group.

References[edit]

Chapter 11. OSF and UNIX International (Peter H. Salus, The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin)
UI / OSF merger announcements

This article about an organization in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+{{Short description|Association created during the Unix wars to counterbalance the Open Software Foundation}}
-'''Unix International''' or '''UI''' was an association created in [[1988]] to promote open standards, especially the [[Unix]] [[operating system]].  Its most notable members were [[AT&T]] and [[Sun Microsystems]], and in fact the commonly accepted reason for its existence was as a counterbalance to [[Open Software Foundation|OSF]], itself created to counter AT&T's and Sun's effort to provide a single Unix implementation based on the merging of [[System V]] and [[BSD]] Unix.  UI and OSF thus represented the two sides of the [[Unix Wars]] in the 1990s.
+'''Unix International''' ('''UI''') was an association created in 1988 to promote open standards, especially the [[Unix]] [[operating system]].  Its most notable members were [[AT&T]] and [[Sun Microsystems]], and in fact the commonly accepted reason for its existence was as a counterbalance to the [[Open Software Foundation]] (OSF), itself created in response to AT&T's and Sun's Unix partnership of that time.  UI and OSF thus represented the two sides of the [[Unix wars]] in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
-In May [[1993]], the major members of both UI and OSF announced the [[Common Open Software Environment]] (COSE) initiative.  This was followed by the merging of UI and OSF into a "new OSF" in March [[1994]].  This organization in turn merged with [[X/Open]] in [[1996]], forming [[The Open Group]].
+In May 1993, the major members of both UI and OSF announced the [[Common Open Software Environment]] (COSE) initiative.  This was followed by the merging of UI and OSF into a "new OSF" in March 1994, which in turn merged with [[X/Open]] in 1996, forming [[The Open Group]].
 ==References==
 *[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050601125916588 Chapter 11. OSF and UNIX International] ([[Peter H. Salus]], ''The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin'')
-*[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.osf.misc/browse_frm/thread/436b93ad3bc1f1b6/4ebc895ff10823f1 UI / OSF merger announcements]
+*[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.osf.misc/msg/4ebc895ff10823f1 UI / OSF merger announcements]
+{{authority control}}
-{{org-stub}}
-[[Category:Standards organizations]]
-[[Category:Unix]]
+[[Category:Standards organizations in the United States]]
+[[Category:Unix history]]
+{{US-org-stub}}