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SCO Sells Its UNIX Product Line To London Firm

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-alive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SCO just forged a deal to sell its UNIX product line to Gulf Capital Partners LLC of London. Under the terms of the deal, SCO would continue to exist as a separate company helmed by Darl McBride, with its primary remaining assets being related to its mobile platform offerings. However, it's noted that this deal must be approved by the court, and should not be considered 'done' yet. It could fall through as others have in the past."

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  1. Re:Who? by gmack · · Score: 4, Informative

    People with large legacy infrastructures who didn't want to pay to have their software converted to Solaris, BSD or Linux. They buy the upgrades so they can run old software on new hardware because in the short term it's cheaper.

    Used to be very common for restaurant chains on their cash registerslLike McDonald's. Also Autozone had their ordering system on SCO but left(and got sued).

  2. Re:Who? by itomato · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pizza Hut also used OpenServer.

    Now they're a SUSE shop! :)