[2] Locus was commissioned by IBM to produce a version of the AIX UNIX based operating system for the PS/2 and System/370 ranges.
[4] [5] During the course of the project Locus was acquired by Platinum Technology Inc, who transferred the team working on NonStop Clusters to Tandem.
Compaq then decided to release the NonStop Clusters code as open source software, porting it to Linux as the OpenSSI project.
In the late 1980, the main commercial competitor of Merge was VP/IX developed by Interactive Systems Corporation and Phoenix Technologies.
Although this was the fastest network access of any Windows virtualization system then on the market, it did not increase sales enough to make Locus independent.