Unix specialist Santa Cruz Operation Inc estimates that it will take between five and seven years for users of its OpenServer operating system to migrate to Unixware 7, which it launched in New York this week. The company is fundamentally changing its focus to the higher end enterprise market, but still argues that its core […]
Unix specialist Santa Cruz Operation Inc estimates that it will take between five and seven years for users of its OpenServer operating system to migrate to Unixware 7, which it launched in New York this week. The company is fundamentally changing its focus to the higher end enterprise market, but still argues that its core of existing OpenServer customers in the low end market will not turn their backs on Unix and go over to competing Windows NT. The issue centers around fear among SCO value-added resellers that they are being given a high end operating system when really they are just after a multi-user operating system for small business applications. SCO made the decision to stick with its OpenServer product around nine months ago when it realized that current users would not want to upgrade to Unixware 7 immediately, but would need time to shift over, according to SCO’s senior vice president of marketing, Ray Anderson. SCO says it remains committed to those low end customers, but that within the five year time frame they will chose to upgrade to Unixware 7. In the meantime SCO has promised a new version of OpenServer and version 5.x.x will be introduced this year. We want to attract OpenServer users to Unixware 7 as they move forward, Anderson said.
