SGI code changes not enough, says SCO, Oct 04, 2003

The SCO Group has insisted that changes made by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to some of its Unix code will not be enough to prevent termination of SGI's Unix licence.

SCO plans to revoke SGI's Unix licence even though the latter claims to have removed all potentially offending code from its XFS journalling file system, now in Linux. But this does not go far enough, SCO has told vnunet.com.

The licence is due to be terminated on 14 October, two months after a warning letter was sent to SGI complaining that it had allowed code to be transferred from SCO's Unix System V into Linux.

IBM is the first vendor to offer businesses a choice of Intel-based, Unix-based, or Linux-based server processing and network capacity delivered on demand. IBM became the first computer company to offer remotely-delivered virtual server capacity when it introduced Linux virtual services on eServer zSeries® mainframe systems in July of 2002.

With access to virtual server solutions on every IBM eServer™ platform, businesses now have the potential to achieve from 15 to 30 percent cost savings over deploying solutions in-house.

Civic leaders in Quebec took notice of the SCO Group's threat to seek licensing fees from Linux users, and that forced them to reconsider their Linux movement.

"They didn't know how the issue was going to play out. They didn't want to put effort and time on something that was not going to go on," St. Gelais said.

Recently, however, things reversed course again for the Quebec government, St. Gelais said, once it saw that IBM and Red Hat Inc. were countersuing. "They are open and ready to be part of a pilot to use open-source software, especially Linux," said St. Gelais. "I advise anyone not to be afraid to make a Linux proposal to their decision makers."

The SCO allegations have hit hardest among businesses that were already wary of using open-source software, says Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik. Aggressive technology adopters are too far along with Linux to let SCO stop them, says Sam Ockman, CEO of Linux hardware maker Penguin Computing. Linux users in other countries have paid scant attention to the legal battles, says Turbolinux, a software maker that does business mainly in Asia.

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