Caldera puts old face back on Unix
 
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Caldera officially revived its Unix roots last month when it renamed itself The SCO Group and promised new versions of its Unix operating system products.
The company, which acquired The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) in December 2000, announced at its annual user conference that it would re-emphasize Unix, along with its Linux products.
When Caldera acquired SCO, users speculated that product support for SCO OpenServer and UnixWare would be affected. As it was, then-CEO Ransome Love said the company would migrate its OpenServer and UnixWare customers to Caldera Linux. Users of the well-established Unix products were not happy.
All that changed last week when new President and CEO Darl McBride announced, "the pendulum swung too far on the Linux side. "
He said that Caldera realized its customers had heterogeneous networks. " Very rarely is it just a Linux environment," says McBride. For that reason the company will develop new versions of its popular Unix operating systems.
According to analysts, nearly 95% of the company's revenue is from Unix systems.
The new versions of OpenServer and UnixWare will feature updated drivers and support for USB, as well as new development tools. In addition, Caldera will develop a Merge utility that will let Windows users work on OpenServer and UnixWare.
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Deni Connor is a senior editor at Network World covering storage, SANs, Novell and Novell-related products. You can reach her at dconnor@nww.com.
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