This isn't completely accurate, SCO bought parts of what is now called UnixWare from Novell. And Novell simply attained liscense to release portions of the AT&T Unix kernel.
This possibility makes a lot more sense than people realize. Caldera has always had close ties to Novell/NetWare (via Ray Noorda as you said). Caldera has been developing Unix/NetWare inter-communication protocols and porting NetWare tools to Linux for a while now. (ie. IPX etc) What Caldera would get out of the deal is mainly a large (and loyal) customer base. (I happen to work for a company with over 150 mobile SCO Servers.)
This could be a very important move for Caldera and the entire Linux community. It would bring another Linux vendor into the corporate lime-light. And give a lot of the old SCO die-hards a much smoother migration path. As pretty much everyone agrees, SCO Unix is dying a sure death. And what most people don't realize, is that they used to be THE ONLY x86 Unix vendor. They have a huge installed base, in many areas that you'd never expect.
When you get into "What is/isn't newsworthy" discussions you almost always begin to decide what you alone want to see and since this specific website tailors not only to developers or end users, or admins. There shouldn't be one set of ideas portrayed. I think the slashdot team has to more than adequate on choosing their content to this point. And I don't think they would be as successful as they are, were their judgement on what to put on their page less sound. More to the point, historically they have never printed any minute release information for less than important applications. And I don't recall any "tiny release" of XFree86 ever making it into the news. What release of XFree86 can be called "tiny" anyway?
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This possibility makes a lot more sense than people realize. Caldera has always had close ties to Novell/NetWare (via Ray Noorda as you said). Caldera has been developing Unix/NetWare inter-communication protocols and porting NetWare tools to Linux for a while now. (ie. IPX etc) What Caldera would get out of the deal is mainly a large (and loyal) customer base. (I happen to work for a company with over 150 mobile SCO Servers.)
This could be a very important move for Caldera and the entire Linux community. It would bring another Linux vendor into the corporate lime-light. And give a lot of the old SCO die-hards a much smoother migration path. As pretty much everyone agrees, SCO Unix is dying a sure death. And what most people don't realize, is that they used to be THE ONLY x86 Unix vendor. They have a huge installed base, in many areas that you'd never expect.
"Like water, from a vine-leaf."
* shadoi
The bug lies in the shared library INETCOMM.DLL and has been successfully exploited on Windows 95, 98 and NT with both Outlook and Outlook Express.
It has bee confirmed that other applications (such as PGP) are vulnerable as well.
--shadoi
"Security == Controlled paranoia."
When you get into "What is/isn't newsworthy" discussions you almost always begin to decide what you alone want to see and since this specific website tailors not only to developers or end users, or admins. There shouldn't be one set of ideas portrayed. I think the slashdot team has to more than adequate on choosing their content to this point. And I don't think they would be as successful as they are, were their judgement on what to put on their page less sound. More to the point, historically they have never printed any minute release information for less than important applications. And I don't recall any "tiny release" of XFree86 ever making it into the news. What release of XFree86 can be called "tiny" anyway?