Microsoft Acquires Softway Systems

[Emanuele Aliberti]

The next may be a bit off topic, but I think it is interesting, since it is 
related to porting Unix applications to WNT, or POSIX compliance, or the 
Cygnus CygWin project.

On September 17th, Microsoft Acquired Softway Systems, the makers of 
Interix, which is a native POSIX subsystem for WNT. Actually, Softway 
Systems asked a souce licence to MS for the original POSIX subsystem (POSIX 
1003.1 only) and extended it to be POSIX 1003.xx compliant. Currently, 
Interix can even run Linux binaries, if I read well their pages.

MS says Interix will provide POSIX compliance to w2k, but I think it will 
not be bundled with the standard w2k distribution.

What do you think about that and how (if) can that change the CygWin project 
and the others commercial POSIX layers for WNT? (for instance, CygWin can 
run under w9x too, which Interix can't).

Emanuele

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