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[News] Linux Compared to UNIX

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AIX v Linux

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| A guide to making the right choice for your environment
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http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/opensystems/webexclusive/23022p1.aspx

SGI moved from UNIX to Linux...

Unisys, SGI - canaries in the coal mines

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| While tier one server makers IBM and Sun Microsystems have reported their 
| financial results in recent weeks, and Hewlett-Packard is getting set to do 
| so in two weeks, there are other players in the server space. In some ways,  
| they're canaries in the server coal mines. Niche and boutique vendors 
| sometimes feel the pinch first, even if they do offer advantages compared to 
| the big boys.    
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/tier_two_financials/

Sun still struggles to beat Linux with UNIX...

Sun offers OSGi app server

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| Sun is offering on Thursday its open-source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 
| version 3 Prelude, a Web application server based on a modular OSGi 
| architecture with capabilities from the planned Java Platform EE (Enterprise 
| Edition) 6 release.   
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119405&source=rss_topic122


Recent:

Red Hat Linux trumps Unix on TPC price/performance test

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| In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced
| Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million
| transactions per minute -- and at 22% lower cost than its next closest
| competitor.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1332534,00.html


Isn't Linux just UNIX under a different name?

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| Yet, the bottom line is Linux is not UNIX. Make no mistake. Linux was not
| derived from the original program code and it is not subject to any UNIX
| licensing arrangement (some may say constraint.) In fact, Linux is not
| legally able to call itself UNIX (and incidentally, neither is BSD anymore.)
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| No, despite the affection long-timers in the industry might have for UNIX
| there’s no denying Linux has taken on a life of its own and is driving modern
| development faster than any proprietary team. In a twist of fate, Linux poses
| a challenge to the mighty Microsoft whose server-based operating systems led
| pundits to question the viability of UNIX just two decades ago.
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| Linux ain’t UNIX. And in fact Linux has left UNIX behind. The UNIX name has
| become bogged down with fragmented development and legal battles making it a
| shell of its former self. Linux is the new UNIX, it alone is the embodiment
| of the elegant design and hacker spirit that UNIX originally represented.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20169/1143/


Santa Cruz and its "Linux Strategy" Back in the 1990s

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| Here are some more screenshots for you, showing the real Santa Cruz Operation
| relationship with Linux before the modern day SCO Group began suing the world
| and its dog. Back in the late 1990s, Santa Cruz had what it called its "Linux
| strategy". It included both money and support to help Linux succeed.
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| [...]
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| It's clear Santa Cruz was trying to endear itself to the Linux and Open
| Source communities. The press release references its "ongoing strategy to
| support the Linux and Open Source movements".
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080815012642197


SCO Blast From The Past

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| Once upon a time, there was a Linux company named SCO. They were a good
| company until evil overlords bent on sueing the world arrived on the scene.
| This isn't that story.
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http://www.marcelgagne.com/node/581


Related:

SCO pulps Caldera-MS trial archives

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| The Caldera antitrust lawsuit included some of the most damning evidence of
| Microsoft misconduct; breakware, black propaganda, all was there, the
| potential embarrassment being such that there was good reason for Microsoft
| to settle, then try to pretend it never happened. Now, however, maybe it
| didn't ever happen - because the evidence is being pulped.
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| AP reports that the 937 boxes of court-ordered documents, which have been in
| store since the lawsuit, are currently being destroyed at the behest of SCO,
| their owner and - surely coincidentally - Microsoft's new friend. Some 40
| boxes have been temporarily hijacked by Sun, which is busily scanning them
| for use in its own antitrust suit, but after it's done so they'll be off for
| pulping too.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/22/sco_pulps_calderams_trial_archives/
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