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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."
The original SCO (decent guys) are now called Tarantella, which are apparently being bought by sun.
The evil people used to be Caldera. They bought the SCO *name* and tarnished it.
Haven't you been paying attention? The original SCO never sold their souls, they just sold their name.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
You have to imagine that they are after intellectual property beyond what is on the surface. Could it be that Caldera didn't get all of the rights that SCO thought they did?
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Sun announced plans to acquire Tarantella, Inc., a leading provider of secure application access software based in Santa Cruz, CA. [...] Sun plans to use Tarantella technology to provide customers with a higher level of secure mobile access to data and applications.
As part of the agreement, Sun will acquire the Secure Global Desktop family of products, which enables organizations to access and manage information, data, and applications across virtually all devices, networks, and platforms [...]
The software employs a flexible and secure three-tier architecture deployed on Solaris OS or Linux. Secure Global Desktop enables applications to be displayed using native protocols without the need for specialized software - a Web browser and Java technology is all that's necessary on the client device or application server.[...]
Most importantly, the software will enable you to present a variety of applications on Sun Ray thin clients -- including those written to Microsoft Windows.
Jonathan Schwartz comments at Acquistions Accelerate Microsoft Interoperability
Tarentella is here
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Nuff said..
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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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.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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.
forget all this nonsence about unix rights. Its not about that. The Secure Global Desktop system is something we've had in production at my workplace for a few years now, and its a great system, similar to VNC, but on a much higher level. I've tested it on sunrays with sun IT execs and they were througoughly impressed. The acquisition therefore comes as no surprise. SGD is also much cheaper than Citrix and is rapidly expanding. In my console, which i run on gentoo, i have very quick access to win2003, the SGD management console, Gnome, KDE, and many other apps. I think this is much more valuable than some never ending court battle creating bad PR. Sun aint after that.
Does this mean Sun is kickin' it old SCO?
Amen. It amazes me how so many people see conspiracies when there is a simple explanation right there in the open. Sun needed to ensure that they were in the clear with their Solaris-Unix license.
As for the Tantella acquisition, that's clearly to get Tarantella's Citrix like software in a bid to drive down the cost of delivering legacy windows applications on the SunRay platform. No conspiracy here. Just a good business decision with no hidden agendas.
If you're going to bash Sun, at least do it properly.
Sun Microsystems are the people responsible for OpenOffice.org. Recently I acquired an AMD 64-bit workstation. I have been trying to get OpenOffice.org to compile on this thing.
It ain't having it. Not even the CVS version I checked out.
I know all about the "32-bit chroot" way of doing it. It's an ugly solution, like teaching a cat to bark. 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.
But OpenOffice.org keeps coming up with compile errors.
Properly-written code should not care about what processor it is running on. It's wrong from a portability point of view to assume that a particular data type can be substituted for another data type just because, on one system, they happen to have the same bit size. Yet that seems to be at the very root of the issue here. I edited file after file, lost track of where I was at, and finally gave up. Meanwhile, I've come to love KOffice.
Bear in mind that this is Sun's OpenOffice.org, a piece of code they dare show us the internals of.
Now think. Sun also sell proprietary, closed-source stuff, which they don't have to worry about other people seeing. Stuff like Solaris and Java.
If OpenOffice.org is so sloppily written that it won't compile on a 64-bit system without more mods than I was prepared to make, and that's what they deign to let us look at -- then what sort of state is the code in that they won't let us see?
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You bought an Opteron workstation. You want to run it with a 64-bit OS? So run Solaris 10. You shouldn't need to compile OpenOffice.org just download the darned binaries. Solaris 10 runs 32- and 64-bit binaries side by side, seamlessly, flawlessly and with no performance penalty.
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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.
Sun already have the necessary remote display technologies. See http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/124007Z6UVR8.xht ml
This acquisition was done because Tarantella have some number of Sun customers, and Sun had been recommending Tarantella. Tarantella would be bankrupt within a few months and that would seriously embarass Sun with those customers. This way Sun doesn't piss off or lose those customers. (While the deal is closing Sun will be paying life support to Tarantella.)
The management at Tarantella has always been pretty poor. In late 2003, a new executive team bought their way in. (Look up Frank Wilde). They specialise in flipping companies, making sure that they give themselves very generous golden parachutes (options that turn into shares on buys, change of control payments, various bonuses etc). This was no exception, except the company was about to go down the toilet. Who knows what they managed to convince Sun with, and quite why Sun is happy to be spending so much money paying off mangement I don't know.
Additionally this deal requires shareholder approval. There are many murmors of people voting no, and others of stripping the self serving management team of their very generous compensation and offering the company to others. It isn't over till the fat lady sings!
I was running OpenOffice on a 64 bit SPARC system years ago. I suspect you're having other problems.
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