August 3, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report in Ziff Davis Channel Zone, SCO (sco.com) resellers are more concerned with what SCO is doing with its Unix products than its ongoing legal battles over its claim that Unix code found in the Linux kernel violates its intellectual copyrights.
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The report says SCO resellers have a stronger interest the company’s efforts to support OpenServer, the most popular version of its Unix operating system. Resellers fear that without support from SCO, they will be unable to continue to support their clients.
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SCO, the report said, has assured its resellers that it is not focused exclusively on its lawsuits. Last week, the company released OpenServer 5.0.7 Supplement 3, an updated version of the operating system that the company says provides users with support for thousands of new applications. The new version includes J2SE 1.4.2, the Tomcat Web application server, and the PostgreSQL database for deploying Web applications.
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“SCO OpenServer is the most popular UNIX operating system for the Intel/AMD platform and our support for Java and PostgreSQL will make OpenServer an even stronger platform for our customers by delivering increased performance and greater support for applications,” says Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president and general manager of the Unix division at SCO. “Many of our customers, resellers and software developers have requested these added capabilities in OpenServer. We look forward to further upgrading the product line in the future with our anticipated release of Legend, the code-name for the next major upgrade to SCO OpenServer.”
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SCO announced on Monday that it has released a developer preview of Legend.
