Who Really Contributed the High-End Tech to Project Monterey?

“Here’s something interesting, a Santa Cruz 8K from October 26,
1998, which consists mostly of two press releases announcing the
IBM-SCO joint partnership to do Project Monterey.

“Guess who would be providing the bulk of the high-end
enterprise capabilities and contributing them to UnixWare? Hint:
Not SCO.

“The idea of the project was a single Unix for the enterprise
that Intel, IBM, SCO, Sequent, etc. would all unitedly push, for
Intel’s IA-64 platform and UnixWare would be beefed up for IA-32,
and thus the end result would be one UNIX everyone could market for
IA-32, IA-64 and Power platforms, after pooling resources. But it
was IBM and Sequent, now part of IBM, who would do the heavy
lifting with regard to the high-end beefing up.

“Sequent, the press release says, would be contributing “its
cc:NUMA technology and Intel architecture expertise.” Here’s what
IBM would contribute:

“As part of this initiative, a UNIX operating system will be
developed for Intel’s IA-64 using IBM’s AIX operating system’s
enterprise capabilities complemented with technology from SCO’s
UnixWare and Sequent’s PTX operating system. IBM will also transfer
AIX technology to SCO’s UnixWare and promote the offering in the
UNIX on IA-32 market. The result will be a single UNIX operating
system product line that runs on IA-32, IA-64 and IBM
microprocessor”

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