Hitachi Ltd has not been the noisiest proponent of Unix from Japan, although it has commissioned an implementation for its mainframes from HCR Corp of Toronto, so it is something of a surprise that the firm is being tipped to become the first Japanee sponsor of the Open Software Foundation, meaning it would be in […]
Hitachi Ltd has not been the noisiest proponent of Unix from Japan, although it has commissioned an implementation for its mainframes from HCR Corp of Toronto, so it is something of a surprise that the firm is being tipped to become the first Japanee sponsor of the Open Software Foundation, meaning it would be in for $4.5m a year, and be on a par with IBM, DEC, Hewlett, Apollo and the three Europeans.
