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Judge Confirms That Novell Owns Unix Rights in SCO Case

June 14th, 2010 | No Comments

U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart closes the 7-year-old case — from the federal district perspective, anyway — by reaffirming that SCO’s claims against Novell in the long-running litigation over ownership of Unix operating system copyrights were unconvincing. – Is the 7-year-old intellectual property lawsuit between Unix server maker SCO
Group and Novell finally at its end? If it isn’t officially over, then it’s
very, very close.

Salt Lake City U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart on June 10 closed the case from
the federal district perspective, anyway by…

Legal Strings Remain in Novell-SCO Group Tussle over Unix

April 1st, 2010 | No Comments

There are still some dangling legal strings that need to be trimmed, and those won’t happen for at least a few weeks — barring any more appeals, of course, by SCO Group. One of them involves counterclaims by IBM and Red Hat.
– Although open-source advocates around the world celebrated a court victory
March 30 when a Salt
Lake City jury confirmed that the licensing rights to the Unix operating system
belong to Novell and not to the SCO
Group, the nearly 7-year-old legal dispute over IP is not yet over.

In its lawsui…

Jury Decision Confirms Novell’s Ownership of Unix

March 30th, 2010 | No Comments

In its lawsuits, SCO Group, which has been in bankruptcy for several years, had been seeking about $251 million in Unix license fees plus unspecified damages. SCO Group’s ultimate goal was to gain control over the open-source Linux operating system, which is based in part on the original Unix code created at AT T’s Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s.
– In an IP copyright case that stretches back to 2004, a jury in Salt
Lake City ruled March 30 that networking and
middleware software maker Novell legally retains ownership rights to the Unix
enterprise operating system, defeating a stubborn legal challenge from The SCO
Group of Lindon, Utah.

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IBM, Intel, HP Ramping Up Competition in Unix Space

February 12th, 2010 | No Comments

OEMs and chip makers are aggressively pushing into the high-end Unix space, a profitable but shrinking area of the server market. Analysts say IBM with its new Power7 systems has the inside track to expand its market share, though Hewlett-Packard and Intel are coming out with systems based on new Itanium chips. Oracle, with Sun’s hardware business in hand, also is looking to make a play in a market affected by x86 chips from Intel and AMD.
– Server OEMs and chip makers are turning a spotlight on the high end of the
systems market, ramping up the rhetoric for their competition in the highly
profitable but shrinking Unix space.
IBM made its move Dec. 8,
with the rollout of its first powerful Power7
systems, which promise chip- and sy…

eWEEK Labs Looks Back at 40 Years of Unix

September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Forty years ago, a new operating system called Unix was created, and a new revolution in computing began. Today, Unix-based operating systems still run many of the biggest and most important computing systems in the world. In fact, the core of Unix can be found in every major operating system in use today, from Apple’s Mac OS X to Linux to, yes, even Windows. If Unix itself hadn’t forked into many different versions, it might very well be the dominant OS in use today. In honor of the 40th anniversary of Unix, we’re taking a look at some of the many different iterations of Unix operating systems.
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Sun, Fujitsu Launch Enhanced UltraSPARC Systems into Roiling Unix Market

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Sun and Fujitsu are offering improved performance and virtualization features for their UltraSPARC-based servers through the adoption of new processors and LDoms virtualization software. The rollout comes at a time when uncertainty surrounds the Unix space, with Oracle buying Sun and delays in Intels next-generation Itanium chip. At the same time, IBM is paving the way for its upcoming Power7 platform.
– Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are rolling out enhanced UltraSPARC-based servers into a Unix market that could see continued shifting over the coming months.
Officials with Sun and Fujitsu July 21 boasted improved performance and virtualization capabilities in the systems, thanks to the addition of t…

12 Reasons Why Unix Won’t Disappear Any Time Soon (and 3 Reasons It Might)

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Oracle’s $7.4 acquisition of Sun Microsystems may be raising as many questions as it answered, not the least of which is, what will the software giant do with Sun’s extensive server portfolio? And what Oracle does with Sun’s UltraSPARC line of servers could have an impact on Solaris’ future. Sun’s Unix OS may be expanding its reach into the x86 server space, through deals with Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but it has a major presence in Sun’s UltraSPARC server customer base. The Oracle-Sun deal raises the same questions many in the industry have had about the future of Unix, particularly given the continued rapid growth of x86 server sales and the increasingly Unix-like workloads that those less-expensive systems can carry. However, while there may be some questions about Unix’s long-term viability, there are plenty of reasons to expect that the operating system will be around for years to come. (Many thanks should go to IDC analyst Jean Bozman, Pund-IT Research analyst Charles King and Sageza Group analyst Clay Ryder for their contributions to the list.)
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