From: Adam Flinton 

Old SCO not caldera-SCO...

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/08/11.html

"Well, knock me over with a feather. It turns out that old SCO, The
Santa Cruz Operation, also donated code to Linux. There is an article dated
June 12, 2000, that tells us all about their Linux distribution and their
plans, which included scaling it to the enterprise, as marketroids like to
call it:

"While SCO may be rolling out its Linux distribution long after Red
Hat and Caldera hit the market with theirs, SCO is no open source
Johnny-come-lately. The company offers support services to Caldera and
TurboLinux customers. In addition, the company's Tarantella middleware
supports Linux, as will Monterey, the Intel-based version of Unix that SCO
is building with IBM.

"SCO is expected to announce 32- and 64-bit versions of Linux for
Intel-based servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter of this
year. In early 2001, SCO plans to deliver a 32-bit Internet Infrastructure
Edition that will come bundled with a Web server and other IP applications.
The company is also working on a 64-bit edition for service providers,
including ISPs and application service providers, which will feature
special billing and management tools.

"The company is also expected to explore the following areas:

"--Building the Linux clustering capacity to be in line with SCO's
NonStop Clusters technology, which scales to 12 or more boxes with advanced
reliability for data and applications. Current Linux clustering technology
is generally limited to two or four nodes.
--Beefing up Linux's symmetric multiprocessing capabilities. Currently
the number of CPUs per Linux server is usually limited to eight; UnixWare
can run on servers with up to 32 CPUs.
-- Managing multiple Linux servers as well as applications from a single
console as if they were a single system.
-- Improving security and the ability of Linux to handle applications
such as e-mail, including instant messaging.
-- Adding online support services and documentation."

Wait a sec. Isn't that what paragraph 85 of SCO's original complaint was
talking about, and didn't they say that without IBM entering the picture,
Linux could never have scaled? The complaint said:

"For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the
simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand,
commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors
for simultaneous operation." "

Adam

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