VARBusiness: SCO Forges Ahead With UnixWare -- Despite increasing competition from NT and Linux, SCO beefs up its Unix offering | Linux Today

VARBusiness: SCO Forges Ahead With UnixWare — Despite increasing competition from NT and Linux, SCO beefs up its Unix offering

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 13, 1999

“Herman, president of Blue Chip Computer Systems, a $2 million
Los Angeles VAR, pitched them The Santa Cruz Operation Inc.’s (SCO)
Unix operating system two years ago.”

“In terms of marketing, SCO says it will spend significantly
more on advertising this year compared with 1998. Some of that
money will come from IBM Corp., with which SCO will jointly develop
a 64-bit SCO Unix OS for Intel Corp.’s IA-64 microprocessor family
that ships next year.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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