the POWER lord - Unix

• Mainly maintained by Sun Microsystems as their defacto - Solaris
• User base mainly high end research establishments, universities, government institutions, banks etc
• Application integration achieved with the new products from Sun and other vendors - like the OLE from Microsoft for NT
• A good example is Sun's Neo (Network Objects), a distributed object environment
• Neo allows users to integrate Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) objects and even OLE objects with applications and databases across a network
• Neo works with Java applets, too
• Not everyone concerned about integrating PCs
• Unix NFS (Network File System)