SCO Offers Up The 'SCAMP' Stack

Robert wrote to mention a Computer Business Review Online article about SCO's newest marketing tactic. They're offering their OS as part of a 'SCAMP' stack, ala the more familiar LAMP setup. From the article: "The Lindon, Utah-based Unix vendor has included the open source Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP and Perl programming languages with its SCO OpenServer operating system since the launch of OpenServer 6 in June 2005. It is now pitching the technologies as a SCAMP stack, placing it squarely up against the Linux-based LAMP stack. SCO claims that Linux contains Unix code donated to the open source operating system in violation of agreements between it and IBM Corp."

Great name choice!

[Anonymous Coward]

scamp (skmp)

n.

1. A rogue; a rascal.
2. A mischievous youngster.

tr.v

• To perform in a careless superficial way.

Re:Tetris Installer!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ubuntu tetris installer would also record the highscores to log files, as plain text ofcourse :)

wink-and-nod

[zero time ghost]

Somewhere in the dank basement levels far below Darl McBride's office, SCO's only remaining systems engineer is laughing wildly. They actually went with "SCAMP"! The fools!

Re:Great name choice!

[Zemplar]

I just prefer the first "SCAM" [google.com] definition name for short.

What?

[tengennewseditor]

Who is running this stupid company?

Tcl

[Snap E Tom]

And if they replace the PHP package with Tcl, they can call it SCAT.

Re:Tcl

[gbobeck]

And if SCO moves to Houston and they replace Apache with IIS, it would then be called SHIT. Oh wait, all SCO products (and SCO, too) already are.

claim?

[Paradise Pete]

SCO claims that Linux contains Unix code donated to the open source operating system in violation of agreements between it and IBM Corp."

Wow! That's big news if it's true. Why haven't we heard more about this?

Re:Not safe to use

[Kaenneth]

It isn't safe to use LAMP. GNU's fiscal future is certain. They've based their entire organization around giving software away for free. It would be a bad idea to use LAMP for a production system only to have the developers get 'real jobs'.

Sure, you could convert your LAMP-based application to SCAMP if that happens, but doing that on a production system is very costly due to all the manpower to document the old system and all the conversions from unsupported formats.

You should ask yourself, what advantages does LAMP offer over SCAMP that warrants the risk of using a platform from a bunch of communist hippies? Are there even any such advantages at all?