[rescue] SCO Openserver

[Julius Sridhar]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Linc Fessenden wrote:

> > > > Before I put any time into learning it, is there any future for
> > > > SCO/Caldera Openserver ? I.e. is it likely to still be fairly
> > > > common in 5 years time.
> > >
> > > It really isn't fairly common now, is it?  Most of the people I knew who
> > > were running Openserver a couple of years ago (myself included) are no
> > > longer.
> >
> > and those who do are holding on by a thread.  is it even supported and/or
> > coded for anymore by anyone?  or has it become a stagnant item?
>
> Well, having worked with it, on it, and around it for the last 6 years, I
> can tell you that it's still supported, still being developed and will
> still be around for quite sometime to come.  The fact that a Linux company
> now has control is only a bonus to SCO.  Might make it a little more easy
> to integrate some gnu utils..  Would be more up-to-date then and
> useable.  At any rate, OSRV5 is still Compaq's most supported unix.  Same
> with a lot of other companies.  That's how I am sitting on 5 SCO OSRV
> servers here - shipped to me in Compaq Proliant ML530's...

It has lost one big advantage, in my book.  It used to be (as of a couple
of years ago) the only two modern UNIXes that would run on Microchannel
systems.  Now there's NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux.  The other one was
UNIXware.

Peace...  Sridhar