SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 Review

JigSaw writes "Despite news about SCO being all about the lawsuit, they still sell OS products and they have a presence in the server market. UnixWare is one of these OS products. Tony Bourke reviewed its latest version, 7.1.3, and even includes benchmarks among other tests. Tony concludes that 'the lack of commercial applications and user community, the difficulty with open source applications, the SCO litigation, and the high price are all marks against UnixWare. There are just very few reasons to adopt UnixWare as your platform, and plenty of reasons to adopt (or migrate to) other platforms.'"

Comments

Unfortunate that the test system wasn't newer

[pointym5]

It would be interesting to see the degree to which UnixWare copes with recent hardware: HyperThreading P4's, nForce2 chipsets, IEEE 1394, SATA RAID, etc etc etc.

Interesting how much cheaper Solaris is

[Quantum Jim]

It's interesting how the prices compare:

CPUs UnixWare Ent-Linux Solaris-9-x86
1 $799-$1,399 $349-$449 $99-$250
2 $2,299.00 $349-$449 $250.00
4 $4,999.00 $749-$1499 $1,500.00
8 $9,999.00 $749-$1499 na

Enterprise Linux doesn't seem to offer an advantage unless you're using four or more processors. Solaris (and, Java Desktop, I assume) seems to be a better deal for regular workstations or servers... I imagine that only high-end servers and "mainframes" seem to benefit from the price. No wonder Red Hat doesn't see a future for desktop Linux... they're prices are too expensive!