Unix veteraan SCO zal volgens Network World eind deze week een eigen Linux distributie aankondigen, schrijft The Register. SCO heeft de afgelopen jaren uit het Linux kamp sterke concurrentie ontvangen voor het eigen commerciële Unixware operating system. De combinatie Unixware en Linux zou echter een stevige concurrent kunnen vormen voor andere Linux distributies:
Linux provides SCO with an opportunity to target the growing number of businesses interested in the open source OS, and to then flog them the technologies that make Unixware stand out, products they might not normally consider.
Good news for SCO - what about everyone else? No too good, it seems. SCO is coming into the market with much far more of channel, support and services infrastructure than almost any other player. SCO is already providing support to Caldera and TurboLinux customers.
"They own the low-end Intel/Unix market," D.H. Brown Associates analyst Tony Iams told Network World. "They know this space like no one. They have a tremendous set of relationships with resellers and OEMs." Absolutely.
This week's announcement will, it's believed, highlight IA-32 and IA-64 versions of SCO Linux, both scheduled for a Q4 2000 release. Next year, SCO will release versions targeted at specific types of user, such as ISPs and ASP.
. Ik hoop dat de SCoadmin naar linux wordt geport..
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