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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. What about Novell? by jbengt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does SCO even have the right to sell their Unix business without the approval of Novell?

  2. Re:Who? by DrXym · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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.

    I'm surprised they bothered. If systems are that legacy it would probably be cheaper to virtualize them. More interesting but perhaps legally iffy would be to fund an open source project to emulate the SCO system calls and core libraries. Something like lxrun but for SCO so that apps can be ported and run on any other x86 OS.