what's SCO UNIX?

[Guest_imported]

Sir,

i want to know what's SCO UNIX?what's it all about?

would be grateful if u find out.

thanks.
kan04

 

[ZAPZAP]

If you go to the web site

http://www.sco.com

and then check back through some historoes of the PC industry from roughly 1984, you will find that SCO UNIX is the largest Intel Platform independent UNIX in the neighborhood. Other firms, like HP and IB, for example have created their own "blends" but SCO runs on anything thing Intel.

One last thing, though Caldera and SCO are merging and lots of cheapies abound, when a client wants to make sure that a 2 way or 4 way or, for that matter an 8 way server works they turn to SCO and that is simply because SCO paid real money to test the stuff. Unfortunately with the home / moonlight / off the books Linux development community working mostly on PC's it was rough for the Linux community to really get a great handle on the big server platforms.....but that is changing for the better.

There is a SCO version coming out shortly that is going to be able to run Linux binaries natively.

Have fun

ZapZap

 

[CliffWells]

SCO is simply the worst Unix ever (at least OpenServer is; Unixware has some pretty advanced features). Look elsewhere if you want Unix. If you are simply wanting to try Unix, get Linux or FreeBSD, you'll have a much more modern system at a fraction of the cost (or even free, if you've got the bandwidth to download a few hundred MB of ISO images).

Even if you decide to try Unixware, be prepared to get out you wallet. You can't even talk to SCO technical support without spending a small fortune. Open-source support forums are typically much more knowledgable and responsive than those for commercial offerings. An example: I recently had an issue with my Linux box and posted to a mailing-list. Within 5 minutes I received 4 responses, one of them being right on the money. Beat that with any commercial support contract.

Good Luck.