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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. wtf???? by multipartmixed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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

    Band Names

    Taranchula!

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

    Nuff said..

  4. good move by garvald · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. Re:New SCO, old SCO, what's the diff? by CapeBretonBarbarian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.