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Microsoft and Sun licenses

Microsoft and Sun licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2007 5:58 UTC (Mon) by edomaur (subscriber, #14520)
In reply to: Microsoft and Sun licenses by smoogen
Parent article: A bad day for the SCO Group

Well, Solaris 8 has also the title SunOS 5.8

There has been a merge somewhere along the line.


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Microsoft and Sun licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2007 9:56 UTC (Mon) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link]

If my memory serves me well, SunOS 4.x and below are BSD, while SunOS 5.0 onwards are SysV. To emphasise the change, Sun's always released SysV-based SunOS under the Solaris label, not as a separate SunOS product, although Solaris is just branding for the newer SunOS products.

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