tlug: Compaq/M$ joint attack on Linux...

["Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

The breath news is disturbing for those with halotosis (spell?), and for
deals like the Compaq/M$ one which smells of a joint attack on Linux...

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
fwiw3980@example.com <default>

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, InfoBeat wrote:

> *** Breath smells may be key to diagnostic revolution
> 
> LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists said Friday they were
> developing a breathalyzer device that diagnoses ailments simply by
> sniffing a patient's breath. The scientists at the Imperial College
> of Science, Technology and Medicine in London believe that within a
> few years, the device will be as crucial a tool to the family doctor
> as a stethoscope. Imperial College has formed a joint venture company
> with Kiotech International PLC, a British biotechnology company, to
> develop and manufacture the device. The new company, BodiTech,
> expects to produce its first prototype by 2002, when it will begin
> clinical trials. See
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556005548-ab2
> 
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>                               Technology
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> 
> *** Compaq, Microsoft in operating systems pact
> 
> HOUSTON (Reuters) - Compaq Computer Corp. and Microsoft Corp.
> announced an alliance aimed at easing the way in which corporate
> computer operating systems (OS), developed by the companies, work
> together. Under the alliance, Compaq, the Houston-based PC giant
> which this year bought systems maker Digital Equipment Corp., will
> license technology from Microsoft that is oriented to Microsoft's NT
> OS for corporate networks. The technology will be used in future
> versions of Compaq's Digital UNIX OS. Microsoft will license software
> previously found only in Compaq's Tandem NonStop Kernal system to be
> applied to future versions of NT. Financial terms of the agreement
> were not disclosed. See
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2555998007-9b6
> 

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