Among the minor matters arising from IBM’s barnstorming session in La Hulpe this week was that its AIX Unix is a helluva lot less important to the company than Systems Application Architecture, and that Unix is seen very specifically as a workstation and engineering operating system, lending weight to our contention that the Open Software Foundation is little more than an unholy alliance between IBM and DEC to try to contain Unix and prevent its proliferation in the commercial world; IBM also revealed that AIX 3.0, the release which the Open Software Foundation will use as its open software foundation will be out one year from now in July 1989.
