[Nottingham] Sun's financial support for SCO (12% of SCO's revenue)

[Robert Davies]

On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 08:57, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Robert Postill wrote:
> The information I have suggests that the SCO deal relates purely to some
> drivers used in Solaris x86 probably because they needed them in a hurry.
> SunOS itself does not use code which needs licensing from SCO however
> Solaris does because it is based on SysV.

Another nail in the coffin of this theory :

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6293

"The change by Caldera to leverage the SCO brand and SCO products has a sound 
foundation but some short-term problems. These problems revolve around the 
fact that neither Caldera nor device manufacturers are spending much in the 
way of resources to support SCO Open Server or UnixWare products. The 
bottom-line is it's an old OS. It's going to take time for the new SCO Group 
to re-assess and then come out with a new version of the main SCO products. 
So, what does a company do to get its channel re-invigorated and its house in 
order? "

Seems very unlikely SCO would have any drivers worth even the outstanding $2.5 
million, never mind the full amount.

Rob