[ale] (OT) Fate of SCO

[Lightner, Jeff]

UNIXWARE was Novell's foray into UNIX.   They ended up selling it
(licenses not copyrights apparently) to SCO who then supported both the
SCO UNIX (later rebranded OpenDesktop) and UNIXWARE for a while.   I was
using SCO prior to that deal (and after it but kept using the SCO UNIX).
The linked article suggests that at some point SCO dropped the separate
product in favor of UNIXWARE but I don't know if that's true.   In my
current job I've inherited more than one SCO server from various
acquisitions and although they're a few years old they're not from the
90s like the ones I had worked on at the earlier company.  (Which I
guess indicates another reason why I don't agree with the "cash
register" comment in the article.)

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Cartwright
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:35 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] (OT) Fate of SCO

On 4/8/2011 11:00 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> In its day I made my living on SCO UNIX and rather liked it.   I
> disagree with the comment about it only being used for cash registers.
> We had over 2000 sites that were running it as their central systems.
> One thing I liked about SCO then was that they were hardware agnostic
> (other than requiring x86 based stuff).   Most other UNIX flavors at
the
> time required you to run on their hardware.
when I worked for AT&T, we had a platform that ran UNIXWARE ( SCO?) for
our IVR systems. I think now it runs on Solaris, migrated off of Intel
platform a few years ago.


-- 
Paul Cartwright

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