On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:35, you wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 15:32, Yuda wrote: > > Pardon my ignorace, whats SCO? > > The Santa Cruz Organization. It made its name making a version of Unix > (in conjunction with Microsoft) called Xenix for the Intel 8086 and 8088 > processors. Microsoft dropped its support for Xenix, which was > eventually replaced by SCO Unix. (SCO Unix is based on Unix System V > rather than System III that Xenix was based on.) Throughout its history > SCO has competed with a number of other Unix-like operating systems for > the Intel-Unix market (in the order that I think if them): > * BSD > * Minix > * HURD > * Linux > * Solaris > * QNX
You're forgetting the number of SVRx vendors like ESIX - who missed out on selling me a Unix SVR4 when they were still around and I had just got myself a 486 in 1991 and was looking for an appropriate OS to run on it, by the simple expedient of overcharging due of overhigh royalties they were being charged themselves. There were more than that one, of course, and most of them went to the wall under the gentle administration of MS Win NT's hype. And in that way the West was lost ... Wesley Parish > SCO Unix has usually done quite well, having a strong position in the > Point of Sale market (SCO runs the McDonalds POS system, for example). > Most of the above operating systems have had poor marketing, poor > support, and were not particularly interested in the Intel market, which > also helped SCO sales quite a bit. > > Caldera, which made a Linux distribution, took over SCO in 2000. Quite > quickly Caldera dropped its Linux focus, its name, and its CEO: Ransom > Love. (I think Ransom Love is a fantastic name for a CEO, which is the > only reason I mentioned him at all.) In the last three months, SCO has > become prominent by suing IBM for intellectual property theft, claiming > that IBM took parts of the Unix code-base (which it owns, though some > dispute this) and used it in Linux. No evidence has been brought > forward. > > [I hope that was balanced history :)] -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
