What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) [LWN.net]

What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes)

Posted Jun 18, 2003 23:35 UTC (Wed) by vmlinuz (guest, #24)
In reply to: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) by mmarq
Parent article: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes)

23 years ago there wosent a SCO,...

Hate to tell you, but SCO was founded in 1979. Of course, that SCO bears very little relation to the company which currently bears that name, since the original SCO was an engineering company, not a careening lawyer-chariot heading for a fall. Oh, and the company under discussion here used to be a Linux company called Caldera, not a UNIX company...

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Re: SCO was founded in 1979

Posted Jun 19, 2003 3:57 UTC (Thu) by kmself (subscriber, #11565) [Link]

That "SCO" is now Tarentella, still operating out of Santa Cruz, CA.

Caldera/SCO, newly yclept "The SCO Group", is the successor organization to Caldera International, founded 1994. What SCO/Caldera bought was "the Unix business" of what's now Tarentella, as well as, apparently, the name. Otherwise, the company suing IBM has nothing to do with the SCO founded in 1979.