Comment No need to bash SCO (Score 1) 40
OpenServer is not a fantastic viciously cool mindblowing product, but it works for the most part if you do things the SCO way.
Like AIX, OpenServer is not the UNIX most likely to be chosen for a project by a seasoned admin with wide experience with a number of different UNIXen its a bit odd to admin, and skills taken from Solaris, BSD variants and Linux are liable to mess you up instead of help you.
But its not the sort of horrifying abomination that NT is.
SCO's purchase of UnixWare can only be seen as a good thing. UnixWare foundered under Novell. Its was barely supported, inexpertly maintained, mismarketed and essentially treated like a red headed stepchild.
SCO has put real energy into UnixWare, and whether or not their company survives has become tied to the success of UnixWare.
Why is that a good thing?
Because UnixWare is the one and only direct line decendant of ATT SysV, and it would have been evil and stupid if Novell had just let it die like it seemed they were going to.
So is this a win for Linux? Um... not really... but its a win for *nix, because it helps to keep one more flavor alive.
Like AIX, OpenServer is not the UNIX most likely to be chosen for a project by a seasoned admin with wide experience with a number of different UNIXen its a bit odd to admin, and skills taken from Solaris, BSD variants and Linux are liable to mess you up instead of help you.
But its not the sort of horrifying abomination that NT is.
SCO's purchase of UnixWare can only be seen as a good thing. UnixWare foundered under Novell. Its was barely supported, inexpertly maintained, mismarketed and essentially treated like a red headed stepchild.
SCO has put real energy into UnixWare, and whether or not their company survives has become tied to the success of UnixWare.
Why is that a good thing?
Because UnixWare is the one and only direct line decendant of ATT SysV, and it would have been evil and stupid if Novell had just let it die like it seemed they were going to.
So is this a win for Linux? Um... not really... but its a win for *nix, because it helps to keep one more flavor alive.
