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Unix Forum Adopts A Microsoft-friendly Face
News SCO Forum 2000, long a haven of Unix fans antagonistic to Microsoft and its Windows operating system, has quietly changed its name to simply Forum 2000. By dropping the SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) name and its Unix-centric associations, the annual...
[August 14, 2000, 7:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Meanwhile over in Vegas, SCO is hosting its SCO Forum annual shindig. You can see why this might prove annoying, and why Groklaw was so loudly denounced from the stage at SCO Forum. The news, in case you missed it, was that now that SCO has...
[August 6, 2004, 17:40]
SCO's Legal Gun Takes Aim At Linux
News Instead of talking up new products, SCO Group executives devoted the bulk of their presentations at this week's SCO Forum to the fight against Linux. So in a bid to clarify its case both to customers and detractors, the company showed the disputed...
[August 22, 2003, 9:25]
Unix Forum Cheers Linux
News Linux fever is infecting even the staunchest Unix advocates, as evidenced this week at SCO Forum in Santa Cruz, California. Many of the software vendors exhibiting at SCO Forum were demonstrating proudly Linux versions of their SCO offerings, and...
[August 23, 1999, 12:15]
SCO Unveils Code 'evidence'
News At the SCO Forum on Monday, the company pulled out its latest weapon: lines and lines of disputed code that were allegedly copied from SCO's Unix into IBM's version of Linux. According to those who viewed the code at SCO Forum, company...
[August 19, 2003, 15:45]
SCO Customers Need Not Fear, Says Caldera Chief
News Love, along with SCO president and chief executive Doug Michels, opened Forum 2000 (formerly SCO Forum) in Santa Cruz this week on an upbeat note, speaking of the opportunities both companies will gain after the sale is complete.
[August 22, 2000, 10:19]
IBM Hedges Its Bets With Unix For Intel
News At the server conference Forum 2000 Tuesday, co-hosted by IBM's AIX 5L partner Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), a senior IBM executive touted the operating system's benefits before a crowd of resellers from around the world.
[August 23, 2000, 14:46]
Ballmer And Gates Are Quitters, Says Sun Boss
News Despite claiming that his company had done more than any other vendor to support Linux, McNealy, referring to the continuing lawsuit between SCO and IBM, warned that Linux users would have little protection if SCO was successful.
[August 1, 2003, 11:15]
SCO Exhibits Contentious Code
News During the first two hours of a morning keynote session at SCO Forum on Monday, chief executive Darl McBride outlined the company's legal strategy and tried to convince SCO partners and customers that it is fighting the good fight.
[August 19, 2003, 8:40]
SCO Opens New Legal Front Against Novell
News The suit seeks unspecified punitive damages and injunctions that would transfer to SCO any Unix-related copyrights obtained by Novell and bar Novell from "representing in any forum that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in Unix and UnixWare...
[January 21, 2004, 9:10]
Hackers Take SCO Web Site Offline
News Security experts on the Full Disclosure mailing list -- a public forum for discussing software vulnerabilities -- said last week that SCO's Web site appeared to be using older software that hadn't been patched with recent security updates.
[August 26, 2003, 8:55]
Aussie Group Claims SCO's Demands Flout Law
News Open Source Victoria claims SCO is violating the Trade Practices Act and has updated its complaint against the company with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Open Source Victoria claims that by demanding that Australian...
[January 22, 2004, 9:10]
News Burst: Heavyweights Plan Dedicated Linux Lab
News Santa Cruz, CA -- SCO Forum, a dozen-year-old tradition with the world's most prolific supplier of commercial Unix, is like no conference or industry confab you'll ever attend. Evan Leibovitch watches a reshaped SCO rallying the troops -- or at...
[August 30, 2000, 7:53]
Caldera Loss Exceeds Estimate
News The SCO acquisition is part of Caldera's strategy to cover a wide range of server-software needs, from low-end servers running Linux to high-end systems with Unix. The company predicts a third-quarter shortfall of $14m (£10.8m) to $15m, including...
[June 7, 2001, 10:07]
Caldera To Release Project 42 Public Beta
News Last year the company acquired the longstanding Unix vendor SCO. Because it supports Unix and Samba file and print servers, Project 42 can run either alone or on top of [the former SCO operating system] UnixWare," said Caldera in a statement.
[March 14, 2001, 14:41]
Intel Calls For E-business Standard
News With this in mind, Intel demonstrated a Unisys 32-way Xeon server running Windows NT and SCO UnixWare on different four-way Xeon pods at the same time. At his Intel Developer Forum keynote speech, Intel executive Paul Otellini asked developers to...
[February 17, 2000, 10:02]
UnitedLinux To Take Software Public
News UnitedLinux is based on SuSE Linux's enterprise server, but the public beta will reveal how technology has been integrated from the group's other three partners: Turbolinux, Conectiva and The SCO Group (formerly Caldera).
[September 11, 2002, 16:16]
Microsoft Rings Up Cash-register Customers
News IHL's study said Linux's success in the market -- earlier predicted by analysts -- had been held back by lack of drivers, as well as by the threat of SCO Group lawsuits. At the Global Retail Technology Forum in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft said...
[March 11, 2004, 15:20]
Caldera Name Change Puts Unix First
News Caldera International announced on Monday that it is changing its name to the SCO Group, hoping SCO's greater brand recognition will draw more attention to the company. Lindon, Utah-based Caldera is a distributor of two popular SCO Unix versions...
[August 27, 2002, 8:37]
Caldera Loads Linux Apps On UnixWare
News Open Unix 8 will allow Linux applications to run on the Unix kernel that Caldera is inheriting with its pending acquisition of the operating systems and professional services divisions of Unix stalwart SCO.
[March 27, 2001, 12:21]
