> It's not necessarily that simple. It might be for KFC and Dominoes, but > for others, SCO is not the complete story. Many legacy systems are > written in COBOL, and must pay a per-seat licence for that on top of the > per-seat licence for UNIX. It is these systems that are most attracted > towards SCO compatibility.
And they mostly use microfocus cobol which is available on Linux and uses a vm is a trivial port, or they do a quick port to the fujitsu cobol->java vm translator. There are people in this community who deal day in and day out with migrations. I don't hear a whisper of concern from those I deal with about losing iBCS. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/