"Darl McBride has the unenviable reputation as the man who tried to milk Linux.
As CEO and president of SCO Group, McBride has spent the last few years trying to collect billions in licensing fees from companies using the Linux operating system, earning the wrath of the world's open-source geeks. For scores of programmers, here was a lawyered-up copyright troll trying to shake down Linux - the free, open-source operating system built by idealistic hackers working for the common good. But McBride insists he's just misunderstood."
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Member since:2007-02-22
OpenServer hasn't had a release in years, many major enterprise apps such as Oracle haven't been released for it in a decade.
Funny thing is, if they wanted to, SCO could have improved OpenServer to make it competitive, and they could have made half-decent mobility whatever-it-is. Even if none of it was all that successful, they still wouldn't be in shit as deep as they are now, and they wouldn't be the most-hated corporation in IT.
Member since:2005-07-07
They have always been that way. I remember starting with linux using the Cladera (now SCO) OpenLinux distro annd they have always been at least five years behind Red Hat, Mandrake (now Mandriva and what I use) and SuSE amongst the commercial distros. espercially in Kernels and the glibc libraries. I don't think Caldera (SCO) was ever designed to be anything but an orphan IP (DR-DOS) hog and lawsuit factory.
Member since:2005-07-06
Mate, OpenServer is dead, hence the 'OpenServer personality' for UnixWare. They could have invested heavily into UnixWare, reduced the price to something more palatable to the market, but they chose to sue than invest.
SCO were living in 1980s thinking they can charge for every single component of the OS, from the networking stack to mirroring technology - things which are part of the default licence of Linux, Windows or any other commercial UNIX.
Had SCO faced reality, we wouldn't be in this discussion right now. The fact is, I find it funny when shareholders appoint clueless MBA wizzkids and lawyers to run companies who have the charisma and vision of a wet blanket, and wonder why things don't succeed.
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2005-07-06
If they develop their mobility stuff like OpenServer, then they are wasting their time. OpenServer hasn't had a release in years, many major enterprise apps such as Oracle haven't been released for it in a decade. It uses X11R5 (no R6, no X.org) and it doesn't ship with a GCC newer than 2.95. You can buy a compiler from them for more $$$.
In short: its outdated and useless. No on one is going to dump Solaris or Linux for it.