The long running bush-war over the future shape of bus technology looks set to come to a peaceful conclusion, as Intel CEO Craig Barrett offered a laurel branch of peace at a Dell jamboree yesterday. The dispute pitched mighty Intel, Dell and Sun, with a solution they call NGIO (new generation input/output) against the equally mighty IBM and HP and not so mighty Compaq with their Future/IO proposals Barrett went out of his way yesterday to suggest that the rift might be healed in the near future at a Dellfest yesterday. He suggested that the two camps were working closely together to attempt to reach a solution. Chipzilla will probably use its Intel Developer Conference which starts in the US next week to pour oil onto troubled water. ® See also Intel stirs up bus row (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/1267.html) IO battle of giants to make tiny firm rich (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/6082.html) All becomes Santa Clara as Texas Micro merges with Radisys (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/4514.html) Talks over IO cooperation collapse (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/3514.html)