Vittorio Cassoni, one of three executive vice-presidents at Xerox
Corp, died in Milan of a brain tumour at the age of 49: he was at
the centre of the controversy that led to the Unix Wars and the
creation of the Open Software Foundation while on secondment to
AT&T Co from Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA; shortly after the
formation of the Foundation, he returned to Olivetti as managing
director, from where he joined Xerox just seven weeks ago.
