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An Objective Review of UnixWare 7.1.4
Roblimo writes "Yes, SCO is evil and all that, but in between lawsuits it still puts out a product called UnixWare. NewsForge decided to review the latest version -- 7.1.4 -- just like we would any other Unix-based operating system. To ensure impartiality, we hired respected freelancer Logan G. Harbaugh, who wrote: 'On the server side, UnixWare Enterprise edition is more expensive for 150 users than either Windows 2003 Server Datacenter Edition, any of the Enterprise Linux distributions, or Solaris, with fewer available applications, fewer drivers for recent HBAs and other new hardware, and no currently available 64-bit version for either Opteron or Itanium processors.'"
From reading the comment, I'm not so sure...
Rumors are that many lines of source code are in common with Linux; and so far all the lines identified actually belonged in Linux.
The only natural conclusion is that these guys stole them.
SCO, Please pay Linus $699,000 for every copy you sell.
Dear SCO,
It was a better effort than we expected of you.
However, it still sucks.
Respectfully,
NewsForge
... If you still want to make a profit, you have to charge more for your software when there's fewer people willing to buy it.
SCO produces software? This whole time I thought SCO was a law firm comprised of ludites. Their lawyers must be true renaissance men. I mean they put in a hard days work slandering Linux and sit down to write code and debug it at night.
-I hate Open Source.
-But you're using it in your own products!
-The best there is!
-But you just said you hated it!
-But.. the you who.. I... It's... differeee.... (head explodes)
Can you hear me, Major Tom? I'm not the man they think I am at home...
... why we don't have any screenshots what so ever.
Sig: I stole this sig.
Looking at those pricing numbers, and the [lack of significant] advantage UnixWare has over, say, everything else, it seems that SCO is still stuck back in the glory days of Unix
They're not just stuck, they are dancing around a cauldron at night during a full moon, with a pack of naked lawyers wearing goat's heads trying to conjure back up the glory days.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
If horseshit was seen growing legs by an evolutionist, they'd name the new species Darl.
:P
-5 Flamebait, but you can't hurt my karma
The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers
Isn't that, like, a security feature or something?
"I have a good idea why it's hard to verify programs. They're usually wrong." --Manuel Blum, FOCS 94
There's this great web page I heard of called Google. It seems to be able to provide answers to all sorts of questions.
My guess is that it's a Host Bus Adapter, a kind of interface for SCSI systems.
Either that or the Hispanic Basketball Association, which I believe Linux provides better support for.