Sun to Acquire Tarantella

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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Re:Sun SCO License

[tomhudson]

They already bought one from the Scumsucking Crackhead Organization: http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1024633.html

A previously secret licensee of SCO Group's Unix intellectual property has revealed its identity: Unix leader Sun Microsystems.

SCO's Unix licensing plan got a major boost of publicity in May when Microsoft announced its decision to license Unix from SCO, but Sun actually was the first company to sign on. SCO and Sun confirmed the licensing deal on Wednesday.
The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the rights Sun acquired in 1994 to use Unix in its Solaris operating system. But there's more to the relationship: SCO also granted Sun a warrant to buy as many as 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share as part of the licensing deal, according to a regulatory document filed Tuesday.

Sun and Microsoft gave enough money for SCO to survive while it ramped up its own FUD campaign ... this also gave it time and enough "street cred" to arrange, with the help of a senior VP at Microsoft, for the PIPE deal that gave SCO an additional $50 million. If it weren't for these 3 deals, SCO would be a caldera (a smoking crater).

This is one of several reasons why the people who have been following the whole SCO/IBM thing are so pissed at both Sun and Microsoft.