SCO Group
The SCO Group, Inc. is a software provider, in particular of Unix operating systems. Under the previous company Caldera Systems and Caldera International, the company large parts (UNIX Business, Service Business ) of the former Santa Cruz took over operation ( SCO). Later, Caldera International changed its name to The SCO Group. Today the Group offers the Unix derivatives UnixWare and OpenServer. The original SCO was renamed by the name Tarantella, Inc. Tarantella was bought by Sun Microsystems in 2005 and was there more as a department; since the purchase of Sun 2010 Tarantella belongs to Oracle.
Since mid-2006, the company offers in addition to the UNIX operating systems also central services for access by smartphones ( Palm OS, Windows Mobile OS, Java) on server applications. ( " SCO Mobile ", " Me Inc." )
In September 2007, the SCO Group sought bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of U.S. bankruptcy law. On 27 December 2007, the listing of the shares of the SCO Group ( abbreviation Scox ) on the American Stock Exchange Nasdaq was ended.
On August 8, 2012, the SCO Group filed an application a, from bankruptcy under Chapter 11 in the liquidation under Chapter 7 to change.
Company History
Caldera developed as a project within Novell. Shortly thereafter, Caldera, Inc. was established in 1994 by Bryan Sparks (CEO), with the financial help of Ray Noorda of Novell to life. The seat was in Utah, USA. The first product was the Red Hat Linux -based Caldera Network Desktop, later Caldera OpenLinux which was based on Power Linux The Linux Support Team ( LST). After establishing the LST Software GmbH in 1996 was taken over in 1997 by the same caldera and passed into the caldera Germany GmbH. Target group for this system were commercial users, however, the market success was moderate. In 1998, the company announced in Caldera Systems ( for Linux and business area ) and Caldera Thin Clients on ( for the dos - and thin-client business). Ransom Love was followed by CEO of Caldera Systems until the end of 2002, whereas Roger Gross took over the lead in Caldera Thin Clients, the Head of Development Center Caldera UK for the DOS business. After the failed move of DOS development in the United States, the progress of large and renamed Lineo, Inc. Sparks took over in the meantime also the lead again at Lineo, which focused on Linux thin clients. The parent company Caldera, Inc. has been continued by Bryan Sparks until the end of the trial against Microsoft. With the purchase of the server software division of SCO Caldera Systems renamed in Caldera International in August 2001. In summer 2002, Ransom Love Caldera International left and was replaced by Darl McBride. The name SCO was reactivated and renamed as The SCO Group, Inc. in August 2002. Ensure that the connection should be made clear to the House SCO Unix tradition.
In March 2003, SCO raised allegations against the Linux community that parts of the source code of the Linux kernel were taken from the original Unix source code and sought a lawsuit against IBM on. In a parallel process, however, was decided in August 2007 that Novell owns the copyright to Unix. See also: SCO against Linux.
On 14 September 2007, the SCO Group sought bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 restructuring, which means the insolvency of SCO.
The path of SCO and Caldera Systems
One reason for buying the SCO Unix product line by the Linux vendor Caldera Systems was probably the SCO 's own inventory of over 15,000 global "value-added " ( value-added) resellers ( VARs) who offered software solutions for customers. Needed about a doctor's office a computer, a plurality of terminals, as well as accounting and medical software, as these resellers offered to the operating system SCO Unix on Intel PCs and the required user programs. One of the largest customers of SCO is the fast-food chain McDonald's, which employs in the U.S. SCO Unix. Favor the use of SCO Unix according to estimates by SCO in relation to the total solution negligibly small operating system license cost (especially no maintenance fees, license costs, however, are dependent on CPU, RAM and software features of the computer ) and a small so-called Total Cost of ownership ( TCO) because rarely needed support. According to SCO, the average time between system stops 20,000 hours, which allows a very high uptime (time without restarting the server ). During the SCO Forum in Las Vegas 2004, a prize for the server has been awarded with the longest uptime, the uptime resulted from the submitted information system of SCO customers including the "uptime " command output.
Open Linux and Open Unix
The terms " OpenServer ", " Open Unix" or " OpenLinux " suggest for Caldera products that it is in contrast to its competitors especially is open source software. "Open" is here but for open standards, a term which has long been used in the computer industry, such as OSF, X / OPEN or Open Group. He has associated with SCO OpenServer and nothing to do (again in SCO UnixWare rückbenannten ) SCO Open Unix with the term open source. Correct, however, is that many open source components ( such as Perl, Apache and Samba) are delivered with the SCO products. The operating system code, however, is closed source.
Others
The SCO Group belonged to March 2005 Canopy Group. The share ( Scox ) was listed until December 27, 2007 at the Nasdaq. After the securities had been threatened several times by the so-called delisting ( removal of the paper from trading ) ( Nasdaq announced that the paper no longer fulfills the conditions for trade and SCO half a year would have been April 29, 2007, which to make paper again meet the requirements ), was excluded the paper on 27 December 2007 from trading.
Locations
The company is based in Lindon, Utah. In the U.S., there are two other offices in Murray Hill (New Jersey) and Scotts Valley ( California). The Commissioner for Germany The SCO Group GmbH is located in Bad Homburg.
Versions
On 15 May 2003, the development of SCO Linux was discontinued.