SCO OpenServer
The SCO OpenServer is a software product that is based on SCO UNIX ( a system based on UNIX System V Release 3.2 Operating System), the first of the company Santa Cruz Operation (SCO, now Tarantella, Inc.) has been developed since 2001 by the company SCO Group is further developed.
History
After Santa Cruz Operation already for I286 and i386 gained a large market share in the PC - Unix sector with Xenix, the first version of SCO UNIX was introduced in 1989. This was the first Unix - derivative, which, due to the licensing by AT & T, was allowed to take the name of Unix in the product.
It is a 32- bit implementation for Intel i386, based on the AT & T UNIX System V (up to version 5.0.7, based on SVR 3.2; based since version 6.0 on SVR 5). Although other manufacturers products soon after the recent SVR4 offered and AT & T with Novell forced the operating system UnixWare, SCO UNIX prevailed because of its robustness and good support from hardware manufacturers on the market.
By 1995, SCO UNIX was supplied individually as a runtime system and in the products Open Server and Open Desktop with integrated networking products. In addition there was a multiprocessor extension for up to 29 additional processors called SCO MPX. For the connection to different networks SCO IPX / SPX, SCO TCP / IP and NFS SCO were available, as is a Microsoft LAN Manager for UNIX, which was used for integration into DOS or OS/2-Umgebungen. Important productivity applications were SCO portfolio and Microsoft Word for UNIX.
Following the acquisition of Novell operating system UnixWare in 1995, the operating system SCO UNIX was renamed SCO OpenServer. The subsequent planned merger with UnixWare took place in 2005 in the current release 6, which is based on the Unix SVR5 system core. Thus, device drivers and applications UnixWare and OpenServer 6 are now available.
Equipment (excerpt)
- KDE and IXI XDT3 ( desktop environments )
- Mozilla (web browser)
- Java
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache, PHP, Perl
- OpenSSH and OpenSSL
- FAT, VxFS. HTFS, EAFS (file systems )
- Compatibility with UnixWare 7.1.4, OpenServer 5, SCO Unix, SCO Xenix
- Support for 32 CPU types; up to 64 GB of RAM and a maximum of 1 TB per disk