I remember having to deploy some software I had written (on Linux) on SCO OpenServer for a client, along with apache and a few standard things around this time.

I remember having to deploy some software I had written (on Linux) on SCO OpenServer for a client, along with apache and a few standard things around this time. I was shocked when I got on the open server box how primitive it was compared to Linux, FreeBSD and Irix, which were the other Unix flavours I had used at that time. Just seemed so weird that a “commercial unix” was able to charge customers while being so bad compared to the free variants that ran on the same hardware.