Rosetta Stone for Unix (2014)

Re:Rosetta Stone for Unix (2014) by sbuttgereit on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:00AM (#15181113)

Is it just me or is page conflating SCO OpenServer and UnixWare as being the same product a bit? Yes, SCO bought UnixWare from Novell (a now infamous purchase), but that doesn't mean the products share a close lineage, or actually merged, as a result.

It's been so long since I've touched OpenServer (say, ~20 years) that I can't remember if the technical bits of the page are actually OpenServer or UnixWare (I'd say OpenServer). OpenServer had Xenix as a predecessor and, though I didn't work with UnixWare at all, what little I did play with it made clear there were some substantial differences.

All of this is all but historical trivia now, but I'm sure there are at least some OpenServer installs running out there... somewhere....

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Re:Rosetta Stone for Unix (2014) by kjs3 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:15AM (#15184317)

They did actually merge the products around OpenServer 6/UnixWare 7. No, the names don't make a bit of sense.

While SCO licensed Xenix from Microsoft and kept the port going through 386 support, SCO Unix/ODT/OpenServer/UnixWare all descend from a separately licensed SCO System V release 3 port, not Xenix.

Disclaimer: I worked for the company that wrote the (in)famous C2 security subsystem for SCO.

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