The end is near for SCO (hopefully)

[Jerry Feldman]

On 05/07/2009 02:54 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that SCO didn't sell =20
> hardware.  Every other commercial UNIX vendor of the period, circa =20
> 1990, was a hardware vendor.  SCO only sold the OS licenses. That is a =
=20
> big draw in the semi-custom POS market.
>  =20
SCO was not the only Unix software vendor. Microsoft actually developed=20
Xenix before selling it to SCO. Certainly, most were hardware companies, =

but there were a few other Unix vendors the used PC hardware. I recall=20
Venix in the 1980s, but there were some more, and a couple of Unix-like, =

such as Minix and Coherent, and QNX.=20

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