“In spite of a heated intellectual property (IP) spat with IBM,
SCO Group will stay on as a UnitedLinux member, according to Thor
Christianson, SCO’s director of ISV/IHV relations. Meanwhile, the
vendor is now pushing ahead with SCOx, a newly rolled out common
Web services framework for its Linux, UnixWare, and OpenServer
platforms.“Under SCOx, SCO is developing a set of common Web services and
tools for SCO Linux and its two other Unix OS products, for use by
application developers, integrators, and ASPs that working with
SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses).“Most SMBs don’t have the inhouse resources for developing
technically sophisticated e-business applications, officials said
during a teleconference, held last week to unveil SCOx. As SCO sees
it, SCOx will simplify creation of Web-enabled Linux and Unix
applications, as well as ease integration of SCO Linux and Unix
applications with outside environments like Java/Sun ONE and
Microsoft .Net…”