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John Floren wrote:
> On 4/5/07, pedro henrique antunes de oliveira <ph.rpguo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> why the www.bell-labs.com doesnt talks too much about plan9 (I, 
>> really, dont
>> know if it talks about it, i never found anything about it there).
>>
>>  Anyone knows?
>>
> 
> Because they have other fish to fry? I don't know for sure, but it
> seems like Bell Labs/Lucent doesn't really do anything with Plan 9
> these days except host the server.
> Can somebody clue us in on this? Maybe one of the earlier coders can
> give some info?
> Thanks
> 
> John

The life-cycle is explained on the website:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

http://www.vitanuova.com/company/background.html

Bill