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Microsoft and Sun licenses

Microsoft and Sun licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2007 9:56 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Microsoft and Sun licenses by edomaur
Parent article: A bad day for the SCO Group

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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