“Members of Monterey 64bit Unix on Intel Project have declared
war on other Unix vendors such as Hewlett-Packard and Sun, claiming
they want to make their offering the leading high volume enterprise
Unix environment.”
“…Mike Orr, SCO’s new senior vice president of worldwide
marketing, said: ‘This is a state of potential war because
we’re not the only group of companies that wants to be the volume
leader in the enterprise. HP says HP/UX will be the de facto
Unix, which is clearly war, but our goal is to ensure Monterey is
established as the leading enterprise Unix from headless servers to
the largest data centre.’
He claimed that IBM and SCO jointly owned 52 per cent of the
Unix market, while HP had a 10.9 per cent share and Sun
Microsystems had 3.7 per cent with Solaris on Intel and 18.6 per
cent with Solaris on Sparc.”
“JP Leblanc, SCO’s director of enterprise marketing, said:
‘Ebusiness solutions will drive the industry and the high volume
Unix on Intel market. We’re all marching to an aggressive game plan
about defining and delivering solutions.’ “