Current and near-term future of SCO

[moto...@hotmail.com]

Now that SCO's old company (renamed TSG) is filing Chapter-7, does that have any bearing on UnXis and the OpenServer products? Is anybody close enough to the product to comment on whether we'll see any continued updates, support, certified hardware, etc? It seems like UnXis is just a website and a skeleton, but I'm hoping that it's more and that they have an engineering/support team.
If you were a business owner running mission-critical applications and needed the peace of mind that a support organization is available to help in a crisis, is UnXis/SCO up to the task? Just looking for commentary. I'm not trying to push fear or falsehoods.

[George]

My company has used SCO unix back when it as xenix.
We are getting away from SCO , going to Suse linux.
In my opinion I would not trust UnXis as they have connections with TSG.
If you want more info check out www.groklaw.net. They have been
following TSG's shenanigans for years. You would need to search the
archives there as SCO/TSG is history. Even in death, TSG is still trying
to sue IBM or anyone with deep pockets.

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012, George wrote:
>My company has used SCO unix back when it as xenix.

Same here. Xenix from 1982 to 1992 when we moved to SCO Unix, then to
Caldera Linux in the mid '90s when it was still a Linux company before they
went nuts with the IPO and SCO acquisition.

>We are getting away from SCO , going to Suse linux.

We went to SUSE from Caldera Linux, and were in Novell's Partner Program.
After a couple of years of poor (nonexistent) support, making it difficult
to impossible to keep SUSE Linux Enterprise current.

We moved to CentOS about 5 years ago, and have been very happy with it.
Frankly I wasn't overjoyed with the prospect of using something that's
based on Red Hat given the problems we had with RH in the late '90s,
particularly with incompatibilities after updates, but have never had
problems with CentOS.

Bill
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[George]

Bill,

How did you deal with porting you apps over to Linux?
Right now I kinda stuck with SUSE 11.2 because that's the only version
that runs Linux abi/IBCS that I'm aware of. I have to use that because I
have binaries only for my apps.

Thanks,
George.

[Juancho]

George wrote:
> Bill,
>
> How did you deal with porting you apps over to Linux?
> Right now I kinda stuck with SUSE 11.2 because that's the only version
> that runs Linux abi/IBCS that I'm aware of. I have to use that because I
> have binaries only for my apps.

You could your run SUSE 11.2 with abi/IBCS support and your binaries in
a virtual machine inside of a CentOS host. Virtualize the problem and go
on with life.

[Bill Campbell]

This is the way we've gone, first with VMware Server (free), now
with CentOS and KVM. We're running SuSE 9.0 Pro with SCO COFF
binaries. I haven't tried anything newer as that Just Works(TM).

We also have SCO 5.0.6a running on the old VMware Server, and
current VMware Workstation (not free) as this supports all the
binaries where the abi/iBCS doesn't handle '286 binaries. I
spent a fair amount of time trying to get the old SCO systems
running under KVM, but couldn't get it working as Red Hat has
carefully removed SCSI support from KVM/qemu, and I haven't been
able to get SCO to recognize the 'ide' support.

Bill
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