[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2024 11:53 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <unegfi$1497f$2 at dont-email.me>, chrisq  <devzero at nospam.com> wrote:
>> On 1/7/24 13:57, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Don't remember that at all. Not on SGI, Sun or HPUX, nor Ultrix, fwir.
>>>>
>>>> Examples ?...
>>>
>>> SCO, IIRC. https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1997/0407.html
>>
>> Lol. I would not touch anything SCO. Fwir, they exist purely to
>> litigate against others :-)...
> 
> This was not initially the case.  SCO was once an engineering-driven company
> that was considered a seriously good place for programmers to work.  They
> had a huge programming and design staff, a hot tub available for technical
> staff, and some highly respectable products.
> 
> By 1997 this had started to change and SCO was starting to get taken over
> by lawyers.  Within a few years there was nothing left but lawyers and they
> had turned into a patent holding company.
> 
> But this was not originally the case and they are sorely missed.

We need to be careful about what SCO we are talking about. Wikipedia has
the story.

SCO 1979-2001 -> Tarantella 2001-2005 -> Sun -> Oracle
        |
        v
Caldera 1998-2002 -> SCO 2002-2011 -> TSG 2011-2012 bankrupt
                            |
                            v
                      UnXis 2011-2013 -> Xinuos 2013-now

SCO 1979-2001 and SCO 2002-2011 are two different companies.

Even though a lot of IP moved from the first SCO to the second SCO.

Arne

PS: Their formal names were The Santa Cruz Operation and The SCO Group,
     but both were known as SCO.