OT: Question re: SCO Use

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Fairlight wrote:

> But what's out there for SCO besides fP and a handful of other miscellenia?
> Not much, IMHO.  I dunno if they even make WP for it anymore.  Lotus pretty
> much folded their product, didn't they?  Adobe never had PhotoShop, but
> they did have PageMaker--then yanked it.  There were a handful of other
> commercial apps ported.  All of them about 30-75% more expensive than their
> equivalent versions on other platforms, and a lot of them fell into the
> drink as ports.  You could never get a -current- Netscape for SCO because a
> long time back they seemed to take it under their wing and release their
> own.  This had the result of sticking you with 3.2 while 4.76 was out
> already.  It was the same way for years.  I'm not even sure there's a
> Netscape for SCO now, although I suspect if you fill 50 zillion prereqs
> that near an act of deism, you can compile Mozilla of some flavour.

I've done much snipping, obviously. I have no bones to pick or strong
opinions, but simply an observation. Mark, the apps you have mentioned are
all desktop apps. My distinct impression, being at the SCO conference the
last few years, has been that SCO is positioning Open Server as a server,
not a desktop machine. So mentioning PhotoShop, etc., may be "OT".

How does it work as a server, compared to Linux?

And did Linux really use SCO code? Does anybody think that's a relevant
question? Why or why not? (Deploy shields...)

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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