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Sun to Acquire Tarantella

Posted by samzenpus on from the buy-it-all dept.

SunFan writes "Sun announced that they will acquire Tarantella Inc., who were the original SCO before selling their operating system to Caldera. Another write-up with more historical detail is at SunHELP. Apparently, Sun is after the Secure Global Desktop products, which might fit into their SunRay strategy."

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  1. Gratuitous Strong Bad by dsginter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Band Names

    Taranchula!

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    1. Re:Gratuitous Strong Bad by CleverNickedName · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Tarantella dance is named after the Tarantula spider.

      Unlike snakes, a spider's short fangs only allow it to inject poison into the human victim's skin. Luckily for us, this makes it possible to sweat out the poison before it gets into the blood stream.
      A hot, sweaty, energetic dance such as the Tarantella is a great way to stay alive in such a situation. Also, if it fails, at least you'll die in a sexy, dramatic way.

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  2. Slashdot to Acquire Dictionary by EmagGeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nuff said..

  3. Its all a cunning ploy by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are going to mate with SUN and then bite its head off.

    oh wait, they are not really spider people are they.

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    1. Re:Its all a cunning ploy by tomhudson · · Score: 1, Funny
      No, they're going to have Tantric sex with then - but you know whatever happens, someone's gonna get screwed!

      Seriously, this is 2-day-old (or is it 3-day-old? 4-day-old?) news. Well, I guess if recycling newspapers is good, recycling bits and bytes is also good ...

  4. Re:memories by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    So let me get this straight.

    Santa Creuz Group which origionally Produced SCOUnix Were a good bunch of people.

    Then became Tarantella which is the same group of people.
    Which sold their Unix to Caldara who was at the time a Linux Company thus a Good Company.

    In some ways the combination of Unix mixed Linux in one company has turned them evil and twisted so they changed their name from the progressive Caldara to the evil SCO.

    Now Terantella (Who was origionally stated as good) which was the Origional SCO got bought by Sun Microsystems who is Quazi-Evil and Quazi-Good So will that make Sun more evil or make Sun good. Because it seems whenever you combine two groups of good you get evil.

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  5. Does this mean... by jav1231 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean Sun is kickin' it old SCO?

  6. Re:FIRST SUN SUCK POST by hackstraw · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've paid for a 64-bit processor, for crying out loud -- and I'm damned if I'm going to have it run on half its cylinders.

    Tell me about it.

    I've been begging for a 64bit office suite for years so that I could overcome the 4 gig of memory limit for my letters and spreadsheets.

    Afterall, a majority of 32bit apps on 64bit machines actually run faster, but if you are still suffering from the limits of a 32bit office app, by all means compile it for 64bit.

  7. Re:FIRST SUN SUCK POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I know! I am still waiting for a 64-bit version of Solitaire so I can play TWICE AS FAST!!!