Adios, Caldera; Hello, SCO Group

An anonymous reader writes: "Caldera International, the company that sprang from Novell and went on to distribute a Linux distribution popular among users before the company's decision to withdraw from the retail desktop market, is no more. Instead, what was once Caldera is now 'the SCO Group.' The change, announced at the company's 'GeoFORUM' conference in Las Vegas Monday, recognizes Caldera's acquisition of SCO Unix, and follows what former employees claimed was a switch in emphasis from Caldera OpenLinux to SCO Unix. At the same time, the company announced a new business plan, called 'SCOx,' and new versions of its Unix and Linux distributions. Details, which combine a multitude of press releases, are on Linux and Main."

Comments

VA Research?

[Anonymous Coward]

naaaaww..

Linux/Unix

[MustafaJohnson]

Given the choice between a closed source UNIX and ANY version of Linux, I'd go with the UNIX. Unfortunatly, 90% the things that run on Linux have one hell of a time running on the various UNIX flavors (Not the mention the distinctions between Linux systems) so it leads me to take up a Linux OS.
I think it's a better idea for Caldera/SCO (I'm not sure what to call it just yet) to stay closed source on thier OS, but it's still not a problem to have the open source software ported to it. I'd 100% choose their UNIX OS for mission critical use because there is still some bias I have for open source software. I still follow the idea that open source is for development and proprietary software is for stability. Call me a wierdo, but I liked the DEC/Compaq/HP True-64 OS over Linux. It's Such a shame it's going to be replaced by HP/UX. Now I'd like to test out SCO for a little.

VA Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

.....Still not quite right.

VA Software

[Anonymous Coward]

and if that doesn't work; next week let's try VA SSCO, 'mkay?