Caldera International, Inc. today announced it will change its name to The SCO Group (SCO) upon shareholder approval and will change the name of Caldera OpenLinux to SCO Linux as of version 4.0, due out this Fall. SCO Linux 4.0, powered by UnitedLinux, is a joint development effort from SCO, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux. The SCO name change carries over to current Caldera branded solutions:
Caldera OpenLinux becomes SCO Linux powered by UnitedLinux
Caldera Open UNIX becomes SCO UnixWare
The Caldera Partner Program becomes TeamSCO
Caldera Global Services becomes SCO Global Services
SCO OpenServer will retain its name. In addition, it is anticipated that the company will adopt SCOX as the new trading symbol for its common stock.
Somehow, when you expand “SCO Group” to Santa Cruz Operation Group, it doesn’t sound right.
I don’t see what is wrong with the old name, either.
i think maybe the want to benfet from the old name reputations
Now all we need to do is get SGI to go back to using their old “cube” logo and we’ll be all set.
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between OpenServer and UnixWare?
Maybe they ought to have branded themselves SCO 3.0 Beta
If the new structure works they can become SCO 3.1
AFAIK, OpenServer is Linux where UnixWare is Unix.
OpenServer and Unixware come from different
source trees, UNIX SVR3.2 (OpenServer) and
Unixware being UNIX SVR5 meaning the internals
are a bit different.
The tangible differences are in performance
Unixware is faster and better for single purpose
mission critical applications like telecom.
OpenServer is more about robustness and reliability
and is meant to be more general purpose though it is
most heavily used in the database sector.
OpenServer (the last time I looked) was more mature
and it had better filesystem options and more flexible, though I suspect Unixware has improved a lot since
I’ve taken a look at it.
-geoff
Caldera DR-Open-Thin-Lineo-Embedix-Clients just can’t get enough names I guess.
Just to expand a little bit on Mr. Galitz’s post,
OpenServer descends from Microsoft’s Xenix. It’s generally considered the “legacy” system. Most of SCO’s developement dollars go into
Unixware, which is the Real Thing. It’s the direct descendent of AT&T Unix. I believe that the latest version has some code from the joint SCO/IBM Monterey project which produced AIX 5L. SCO obtained it from Novell, which had purchased Unix from AT&T.
This AT&T heritage lets SCO make available licenses for some of the ancient Unixes for your PDP or PDP-emulator. I think PUPS has found some (all?) the source code from System 5, and the full blown System 6 and System 7 Unix operating systems.
http://shop.caldera.com/caldera/ancient.html
Yours truly,
Jeffrey Boulier
Man, don’t these people have anything more productive to do than renaming their business and products?
Sounds like the doings of a desperate company. Anybody remember Inprise? (Formerly Borland–now Borland again.)
Actually, I’m sure they know what they’re doing. Yeah, *this time* the name change will make a difference.
I always found it cool to name a shop Santa Crux Operation… cool it’s coming back now.
Isn’t Caldera based in Salt Lake City, not Santa Cruz? That should make the name SLCO Group, right? Just an extra L for the politically correct, Caldera, goes a long long way.
To Geoff Galitz & Jeffrey Boulier,
Thank you for your posts explaining the differences between OpenServer & Unixware.
Tim