So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 19:46 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
Parent article: So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Jebus.. What a mess.

It's realy very bad that such a venerable Unix company like this has to meet it's end in such a horrible way. SCO provided a relatively inexpensive Unix for x86 for companies all over the place.. paved the way for Linux in many cases and it's reliability and usefullness kept many companies from ever moving over to NT.

Especially bad that it has to be merged with a previously popular Linux company; caldera.. I remember seeing their name all over the place in respect to SMP code in the kernel.

But I guess if your going to play with fire, your going to get burned. Especially when your so full of shit like they were.

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So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 20:33 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]

The history is a little mixed up here. The SCO you are talking about still exists, it's called "Tarantella" now, and no longer sells Unix. The SCO we all hate didn't merge with Caldera, it *is* Caldera, having changed its name immediately before suing IBM.

And yes, Caldera employees did some useful things back in the day. But it's too late now to bemoan the fate of "Old SCO" -- that company is long since gone.

So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 20:39 UTC (Thu) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]

Actually Sun bought Tarantella about a month before they released Open Solaris. I guess it still exists but you can't buy shares of Tarantella stock etc.

So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 5, 2005 10:20 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Not realy mixed up at all.

I know about "Tarantella" and all that. Always have known.

How much of the original SCO originization stayed with the management when they went to create tarantella? Most of it stayed were it always has been, developing and supporting unix operating systems.

The biggest screw up was years ago when they priced Unix wayyy out of the pocket book of programmers that wanted a unix bad enough they started writing their own.