At 01:25 PM 3/18/2002 -0500, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said (as his Humble Opinion): > >>>> Of course I never considered SCO to be a "major" UNIXen company >>>> even though they used to ship more licenses than anybody else. > >I had the same impression during the timeframe that Compaq bought >out Digital; I was working for Digital at the time in their UNIX >group (and I'm still here/there, doing Compaq Tru64 UNIX now). And, >I must say that I was quite taken aback when I was told what Compaq's >annual system volume was for SCO-based Intel server systems back >then. I don't know offhand if I'm at liberty to divulge that information, >but it was fairly significant. Over the years, I've noticed a lot of >car dealerships, video/DVD rental companies and so forth who had >dumb terminals running an application being served by a SCO UNIX >box in the back room. > >But, things change over time, and that was then, and this is now. >It will be interesting to see if Linux can supplant SCO in the marketplace. >And, that is strictly MHO, and not that of Compaq or any other entity. >
Some SCO info of interest to the Linux market place, I wasn't as aware of these as I should have been: 1997 - SCO lead the market and shipped 47% of all Unix licenses sold. (doesn't count Linux except for actual copies of install media :-) ) SCO has changed its name to tarantella SCO's UNIX operations were essentially sold to/acquired by Caldera and are now sold and serviced by Caldera. Free licenses of SCO OpenServerTM and UnixWare 7 operating systems are available with the restriction that they be used for personal and noncommercial use. SCO has shipped over 120,000 SCO OpenServer Release 5 and UnixWare 7 free licenses. So does SCO plan to become the Linux alternative, giving away licenses and selling support ? Might work, but they will have a much smaller development team. :-) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Email may contain words incorrectly generated by Speech Recognition software. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 1997-2002. Use restricted to non-UCE uses. Any other use is an acceptance of the offer at www.ultranet.com/~jkinz/policy.html. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
