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

So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 20:33 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)
In reply to: So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw) by drag
Parent article: So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

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.

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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.