Please be aware, this is old SCO. New SCO is really Caldera (renamed), a Linux company that bought old SCO. SCO OpenServer was a product you saw everywhere in

Please be aware, this is old SCO. New SCO is really Caldera (renamed), a Linux company that bought old SCO. SCO OpenServer was a product you saw everywhere in small companies. All on i386 platform, which made it a cheap UNIX. 1997 was the time Linux was coming around as a competitor. It had a very 1980s feel to it. SCO had just started licensing AT&T UnixWare, but they failed switching their customers to it. If the customer had to switch to a different platform, they often switched to Linux. Around 2001 Caldera bought old SCO. Caldera was already struggling to compete with RedHat. Buying old SCO didn't help, they could not convert customers to Caldera Linux. After a reorganisation new management came in (2003) and that was the end of the software business. By the way, before the Caldera aquisition there was already a SCO Linux Skunkworks project running in the UK, but management was hesitating to put it on the market.