OT: Question re: SCO Use

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Chris Rendall propounded (on Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:07:20AM -0500):
| >> When *are* they going to finally move up to Release 4?
| >>
| >>Oh, "never"?
| 
| >Oh, "now"?
| 
| >It's unixware's kernel with userspace and kernel api's added so it's a 
| >drop-in for open server.
| >unixwares kernel and core userspace performs similar to or better than
| the 
| >best linux & freebsd versions and has the features missing from open
| server 
| >and has proven production quality implimentations of features that
| >linux/bsd 
| >either don't have or don't have a good working version yet.
| 
| Is UnixWare being phased out for OpenServer 6? Or is SCO still going to
| offer both?  I migrated to UnixWare from OpenServer years ago because I
| thought UnixWare was going to be "the" UNIX going forward.

Once upon a time, there was Gemini, which was supposed to lead to merging
UnixWare and OpenServer.

Several managements did not in fact go down that road, and starting
trying to prepare OpenServer users for a migration.

After Caldera bought SCO, it realized that the cash cow in the company
was still OpenServer, not Unixware, so then Caldera reverted to using
the SCO name and began Project Legend.

The Legend release, OSR 6.0.0, does begin to fulfill the promise of
Gemini, as Brian just briefly indicated.

SCO's next major project, Fusion, will in fact end up with a merger of
the two.  In the meantime, Unixware will still be offered and acquire
new features.


-- 
JP