Judge opens up Unix code for SCO
News A judge overseeing the legal fight between the SCO Group and IBM over Linux and Unix on Tuesday ordered Big Blue to show all versions of its two Unix products, AIX and Dynix. In addition, Wells ordered IBM to provide all notes and design documents...
[January 20, 2005, 14:20]
SCO 'must show more code' - judge
News In consequence, she ordered the company to "provide and identify all specific lines of code that IBM is alleged to have contributed to Linux from either AIX or Dynix," IBM's two versions of Unix. In addition, she told SCO to identify the lines of...
[March 4, 2004, 7:15]
SCO: IBM has 'failed to comply'
News SCO also wants to depose IBM programmers who worked on IBM's current AIX version of Unix and the Dynix/ptx version formerly sold by Sequent, a company IBM acquired. Among those it wants to depose are AIX engineer Dave Kleinkamp and Dynix engineers...
[July 12, 2004, 9:25]
SCO cancels Sequent's Unix licence
News The SCO Group on Wednesday terminated its Unix System V software contract with IBM subsidiary Sequent, potentially curtailing the company's ability to market its Unix-based Dynix/ptx operating system.
[August 13, 2003, 16:25]
Sequent joins IBM's empire
News IBM has also said it plans to speed up development of Project Monterey, the plan for a converged Unix based on SCO Unix, IBM AIX and Sequent Dynix/ptx. Sequent is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM and IBM has rights to market Numa-Q 1000 and...
[October 1, 1999, 15:17]
SCO's outlook is a bleak house
Leader The Utah company wanted access to all of IBM's source code to AIX and Dynix: so granted. "Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means.
[January 24, 2005, 11:50]
LinuxWorld to have a Big Blue tinge
News LAE sits on top of the Dynix Unix-like operating system, which powers the IBM server. Continuing to toot its Linux horn, IBM will start the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Wednesday morning with a slew of hardware and software announcements...
[January 31, 2001, 14:43]
Caldera loads Linux apps on UnixWare
News IBM's original strategy -- called Project Monterey -- had been to unify AIX with Sequent's Dynix/ptx operating system and UnixWare. Linux distributor Caldera took a major step towards unifying the Linux and Unix operating systems on Monday when it...
[March 27, 2001, 12:21]
SCO dodges knockout blow
News Kimball's opinion in that matter dovetails with that of Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells, who in January ordered IBM to share the source code underlying IBM's AIX and Dynix versions of Unix along with programmers' comments.
[February 10, 2005, 8:05]
HP to deliver Unix improvements
News HP-UX, along with Sun's Solaris and IBM's AIX, is one of the three major server versions of Unix to survive the consolidation that has claimed HP's Tru64 Unix, Silicon Graphics' Irix, Sequent's Dynix/ptx and Data General's DG/UX.
[December 4, 2006, 8:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Instead, we get marvellous lines like "Our engineers have reached the conclusion that parts of Linux have almost certainly been copied or derived…";" The AIO code contributed to Linux by IBM was written by an engineer who had a detailed knowledge...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
SGI to shutter Irix this year
News Among other versions of Unix that have fallen by the wayside in recent years are Sequent's Dynix/ptx, which vanished after IBM bought the company; Data General's DG/UX, which disappeared along with the Aviion server it used after EMC acquired the...
[September 11, 2006, 12:00]
