| SCO back in the Linux game? wanna buy a bridge? |
Jun. 19, 2006
Would you believe that The SCO Group Inc., enemy of all things Linux, will be releasing a Linux distribution?
That's what a purported press release from an SCO-owned site in Germany, OpenLinux, claimed over the weekend. It was a fake.
Before the truth was revealed though, it seems to have fooled at least a few people on Slashdot and other online technology discussion Web sites.
The "press release" read:
SCO Announces Industry Leading Continuation Of OpenLinux Product Series
Caldera OpenLinux X Introduces Higher Levels of Service and Availability
LINDON, Utah, Jun 16, 2006 -- The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX), a leading provider of UNIX(R) software technology for distributed, embedded and network-based systems, today announced plans to release a new version of it's former OpenLinux franchise in early Q4 2006, known under the renowned Caldera label, branded version 10 - or shorter "X". These versions of OpenLinux Workstation and OpenLinux Server feature several technical enhancements and capture the best tools for Linux software development and deployment. In addition to these technical updates, each release features localization in English, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified languages. OpenLinux increases the overall availability of applications and critical data by including backup server facilities within its single, high-availability, fail-over operating environment....
To provide extensive reliability and performance features, the Linux Kernel 2.5 codebase has been merged with recently developed additions to SCO's world leading UNIX core operating system. Already contained code owned by SCO is still included benefiting the stability and overall experience opposed to recent Linux kernel releases.
The decision to reanimate the very popular OpenLinux product series was made after it is evident that certain lawsuits regarding UNIX® System intellectual property and contractual rights are to be finished soon. SCO is eager to be the only future provider of Linux Systems for the enterprise market. Customers will again benefit from the high reliable SCO products, with additional XML and JavaBean support, at the low costs of a Linux System. As according to the Yankee Group SCO OpenServer products still outbeat Linux' yearly uptime by about 20 percent, world Leading companies should still consider to upgrade to SCO's UnixWare and OpenServer series. ...
SOURCE The SCO Group
http://www.openlinux.org
Copyright (C) 2006 OpenLinux Foundation. All rights reserved.
For those of you who are wondering why SCO would have a Linux site in the first place, it's because one of SCO's parent companies, Caldera Systems, had been a leading Linux distributor. Indeed, when Caldera first acquired SCO, it had planned to introduce Unix's best features into Linux.
Things changed.
However, as you might have guessed, this "announcement" has turned out to be a hoax.
Blake Stowell, SCO's director of communications, described it as "Definitely a hoax."
According to Groklaw's Pamela Jones, the site's managers, who appear to be at a German university, have admitted that the press-release was a parody.
"We thought it was obvious enough that it was fake."
"We thought, it would not spread from Slashdot before we stop it (ie, this weekend). It was funny to follow people speculating and finding out about this site. Some people pointed out good reasons why this is hoax/parody, some bad or wrong reasons. Overall, we hope most people concluded it indeed was a parody."
"Nothing got hacked, it's just we got a previously used IP for this machine, so why not having some fun content on it? We apologize for any inconviences arised though! We didn't suspect it would be taken so serious."
Now, the site, as well as any delusions that anyone might have had about SCO coming back to the Linux-fold, are gone.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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