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So it sounds like you want Xinuos OpenServer 10:

Xinuos OpenServer 10 is a 64-bit operating system based on the popular FreeBSD and designed to support business applications within an enterprise environment.

It should be noted that Xinuos also offers SCO UnixWare and SCO OpenServer. Even sco.com now goes to their web site. What's funny about this is that it wasn't SCO that ultimately harmed Linux to the point of it being unusable. It turned out to be the Linux community itself that made Linux unusable by including systemd! And now it is what could be seen as a successor to SCO that's providing relief from how the Linux community has ruined Linux!

What a world we live in!

Many of my customers are still using SCO Open Desktop. For new licenses and users I now deal with XINUOS http://www.xinuos.com/

So what are you going to do when they implode?

Many of my customers are still using SCO Open Desktop. For new licenses and users I now deal with XINUOS http://www.xinuos.com/ . They acquired the assets of SCO from the bankruptcy proceedings. They are pretty good people to deal with. The best part is that I can use the same platform that I have used since 1981 when I was supporting AT&T 3B2 computers (with technical upgrades, of course). Open Desktop is the name of the System V 3.2 architecture. It is now time to stop denigrating SCO (the OS) and see it as a viable commercial alternative to Linux or xxxBSD, and is a stable, strongly usable platform for getting actual work done.

Is Edge going to be portable to non Windows operating systems like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, OpenServer X, Haiku OS, AIX, Android and Firefox OS?

You must feel so smart listing all those UNIX operating systems. You know so many!

Is Edge going to be portable to non Windows operating systems like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, OpenServer X, Haiku OS, AIX, Android and Firefox OS?

It's a pity you don't seem to serve a useful purpose. Even UnixWare seems to manage that, even if barely.

Really? That's all you got?

Where in your list is Tru64?

In the "dead" list, given that DEC^WCompaq^HP aren't coming out with new releases and given that it runs on an instruction set architecture of which no more implementations are being made and it isn't being ported to new architectures.

Irix?

In the "dead" list, given that SGI aren't coming out with new releases and given that the only instruction set it supports these days, MIPS is now targeted for various flavors of embedded computing rather than general-purpose computing, and it's not being ported to other instruction sets.

UNICOS?

These days, it's called "Linux".

SCO?

Wow, they're still around, not that they're players in the same "enterprise server" market as Oracle/HP/IBM and their respective proprietary Unixes.

Limiting yourself to Unixes you've encountered is a pretty lame standard.

Limiting yourself to Unixes that are still around, if the topic is the decline of "Unix", is, however, a rather reasonable standard.

Apparently SCO UNIXware is still around, though I assume that it's more of an absurdist performance art piece with a couple of legacy customers than an actual operating system at this point.