Re: Groklaw way off base re Tarantella

From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:05:26 -0800

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004, J. L. Schilling wrote:
>joe@blahblah.invalid (Joe Dunning) wrote in message news:<kJX%b.75933$4o.100581@attbi_s52>...
>> On 27 Feb 2004 19:11:06 -0800, J. L. Schilling <jlselsewhere@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >That's my point, Groklaw was tarring Tarantella unfairly.
>>
>> Was she? She pointed to the documents put up by part of SCO. Companies
>> have to take responsibility for the actions of people they employ.
>
>Agreed. So tarring old SCO is reasonable. But the Tarantella unit
>within old SCO had nothing to do with that document. Tarantella had a
>different business model than the rest of old SCO and didn't view
>Linux as any kind of threat. Ditto Tarantella the full company once
>the UNIX business went to Caldera.

In fact, if I remember correctly, Tarantella was available on UnixWare,
Solaris, and perhaps other *ix platforms, but wasn't available on
OpenServer. Tarantella got some very positive reviews in magazines such as
SysAdmin. Tarantella was one of the only products that ever tempted me to
set up a UnixWare/OpenUnix system in-house.

Bill 

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