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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]
Contract Arguments Reanimate SCO Dispute
News SCO's first contract violation lies in its failure to comply with requirements to supply Novell with information about licensing activities regarding versions of Unix System V, Novell argues. The second violation arises from a provision in the...
[August 1, 2005, 9:30]
SCO Issues Warning To Open-source Vigilantes
News SCO rattled the technology world early this year by filing a $3bn (£1.89bn) lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated into its Linux software source code from the Unix operating system that SCO controls.
[September 9, 2003, 9:20]
IBM Acts To Throw Out SCO's Linux Claims
News The motion for partial summary judgment, filed on Friday in US District Court in Salt Lake City, centres on SCO's claims that IBM violated a contract that permitted Big Blue to use Unix operating system code controlled by SCO.
[August 17, 2004, 9:00]
SCO Adds To IBM Ammunition
News One is user level synchronisation (ULS), used for coordinating separate instruction sequences; another is the Executable and Linking Format (ELF), the standard that defines the structure of programs that a computer can run; a third is the System V...
[July 16, 2004, 14:40]
IBM Server Takes Aim At Intel's Patch
News IBM has brought its Power4+ processor to the low end of its Unix server line, making the new chip an option across the company's entire line a year and a half after it was first introduced. It's available either with IBM's version of Unix, called...
[May 28, 2003, 9:11]
Sun To Push UltraSparc V Past 3GHz
News Though Sun systems lead the Unix server market, UltraSparc processors aren't tops in performance. But Sun's servers remain on top of the Unix server market, ample amounts of high-end software is written for them, and the company's profit margins...
[June 25, 2002, 9:37]
HP-UX Linker And Libraries Versions B.11.61 And B.12.46 Release Notes
White Papers HP-UX linker and dynamic loader provide linking and loading functionalities supported in Unix (SVR4 (System V Release 4) standards). The linker toolset uses the ELF (Executable and Linking File format) object file format on Integrity systems and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Tru64 UNIX: Technical Overview For Version 5.1B
White Papers This paper provides a brief overview of the HP Tru64 UNIX operating system and its components. The Tru64 UNIX operating system is a multiuser/multitasking, 64-bit, advanced kernel architecture based on Carnegie Mellon University's Mach Version 2.5...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Overview Of UNIX
White Papers Two main ones are System V (AT&T) and Berkeley UNIX, whose last version is called 4.4BSD. There are many slightly different variants of UNIX. For the system administrator or programmer who needs to use system routines, there is a much bigger...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Patent Directive 'could Halt Linux Development'
Talkback Malcom ought to read some of the current US court documents coming out of the SCO vs IBM case, in which the presiding judge says that SCO has thus far shown _no_ evidence of any code taken from Unix or System V has ended up in the Linux kernel.
[March 1, 2005, 20:29]
Spectrum And POSIX
White Papers POSIX is based on UNIX System V and Berkeley UNIX, but it is not an operating system. The name POSIX, which was suggested by Free Software Foundation’s Guru, Richard Stallman, comes from Portable Operating Systems interface for unIX.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
SCO Wants $5bn From IBM
Talkback SCO claims that IBM has been violating SCO's copyrights ever since SCO supposedly terminated IBM's UNIX license. But the only copyrights that SCO has claim to are in Unixware and System V, and SCO has now admitted that there is no System V code in...
[February 9, 2004, 8:09]
Networked File System
White Papers Modern Unix hosts use a mechanism known as the virtual file system which identifies files via virtual i-nodes (usually known as v-nodes) which replace the well known i-nodes as far as the file management system is concerned.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
For A Swedish Savings Bank, Alignment Isn't Just An Objective - It's An Expectation
White Papers With BMC Software products such as PATROL, MAINVIEW, CONTROL-D and CONTROL-V, the IT organization was able to link the bank's various IBM and Unix environments into a sensitive and logical system. ForeningsSparbanken began as a small savings bank...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
SCO Reveals Linux Legal Targets
News The software company alleges that AutoZone "violated SCO's Unix copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organisation from SCO's proprietary Unix System V code in violation of SCO's...
[March 3, 2004, 13:50]
SCO Sets Up Linux-licence Shop
News It enables companies that use Linux to purchase a licence that covers SCO's Unix System V, portions of which SCO claims were illegally incorporated into the source code of Linux. SCO rattled the technology world last year when it sued IBM, claiming...
[February 24, 2004, 7:20]
SCO To Attack Validity Of Linux Licence
News SCO, owner of several key copyrights related to the Unix operating system, has been aggressively defending its intellectual property holdings connected to Unix System V, and filed a $3bn (£1.87bn) lawsuit against IBM earlier this year.
[August 15, 2003, 14:50]
Novell: SCO Insolvency 'imminent' And 'inevitable'
News The deal also stated that SCO would hand over 95 percent of all revenue it received from SVRX [Unix System V Release any] licence agreements. In a court filing, reported this week by legal website Groklaw, Novell claimed that SCO should pay it...
[January 11, 2007, 13:41]
Sun Emerges From Shadows Holding SCO Licence
News Sun's expanded licence permits Sun to use some software from Unix System V Release 4 for software components called drivers, which let computers use hard drives, network cards and other devices. The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the...
[July 11, 2003, 8:05]
