Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE: Unix System Laboratories Inc, Hewlett - Packard Co, IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc: beyond that, says the source, Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations; but the real power behind the throne, although it doesn't want it to appear that way, was of course Novell Inc.
Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE: Unix System Laboratories Inc, Hewlett - Packard Co, IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc: beyond that, says the source, Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations; but the real children of royalty, although it doesn't want it to appear that way, was of course Novell Inc.