Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 08:23:17 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Randall Senn <randall_senn@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@linux.org, www@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990206080808.16906A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <19990206122256.E79100@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> UNIX is a trade mark of AT&T. Oh, no, they sold it to Univel.
> Wait, Univel became part of Novell. Hmm, Novell sold the product to
> SCO. Ah, but SCO gave the name to the Open Group.
Actually, Novell gave the name to the Open Group - in order to settle
the longrunning litigation with Berkeley. They released two versions
of `UnixWare' which was the renamed ATT src. ATT/USL never cleaned up
the kernel src before selling to Novell. Novell was unable to clean
it up and kernel panicks on shutdown were a feature...due to this and
other screwups Novell basically gave UnixWare to SCO. SCO believed,
erroneously, that UnixWare would become their flagship product. IT
did not - and so OpenServer was not dropped as originally planned.
(Reminds one of SunOS v. Solaris ;-)
UnixWare is now the `enterprise' solution offered by SCO while OpenServer
is for mid-sized businesses. I expect it will remain unpopular even
though SCO has signed an agreement (not a letter of intent) with IBM
to have big blue ship UnixWare with their enterprise boxes.
The original Unix is now a bonafide white elephant. I've been running
it since UnixWare 1.
I now run 2.1.2 and 7. Neither one is even close to FreeBSD in terms
of stability and functionality. In fact my Slackware boxes are also
*much* more reliable than SCO. So much for Unix v. Unix-Like. ;-)
My shop is looking to migrate from unix to unix-like on our remaining
`unix' boxes.
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