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But the web-scale demand for SCO Unix never really materialized. Linux took much of the marketshare while SCO went after IBM https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017
by choppaface 7y ago
But the web-scale demand for SCO Unix never really materialized. Linux took much of the marketshare while SCO went after IBM https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/ibm_vs_sco_revives/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/ibm_vs_sco_revives/
- ben1040 7y agoThat wasn't the same SCO, the SCO that sued IBM was the Linux vendor Caldera who purchased SCO's assets and renamed themselves as such.
- segfaultbuserr 7y agoYes, the original SCO was "good". It was Caldera Systems's CEO who started the lawsuits, suing everyone, they even sued Novell for the Unix trademark, and obviously got a notorious reputation and turned SCO into a dirty world. And of course, it almost lost all cases and his company became an utter piece of garbage. Seriously, what was the CEO thinking about?! I guess Caldera Systems purchased SCO, thought it was a good deal, but they suddenly found the days of commercial proprietary Unix were ending and the purchase was a mistake, and this is how they started its assaults.