SCO.com and Caldera.com dead

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Rick Tomaschuk wrote:

> My understanding at a presentation at SCOForum is that Openserver is
> SCO's flagship product. Prior products have led up to what is today
> called Openserver. Sorry if I've provided "mis-information" but SCO
> gave out awards at SCOForum for servers verified (by Emir <g>) to be
> up for 5, 10 and 17+ years. I resqect any operating system that can
> show those numbers. I guess FreeBSD would also qualify.

The practical limitations are how long the OS has existed, and how long it
has existed without a serious kernel exploit.  FreeBSD emerged from the
404BSD code in, what 1993, so a 10 year uptime _may_ be possible (but it'd
be so ancient it wouldn't be funny) but anything more is simply
impossible.

Others were raising the same issues about OpenServer.

If a given OS had a serious exploit in the kernel say, 3 years ago, which
would require a new kernel and a reboot then I'd say anyone with a system
predating that time better have a good reason why they haven't fixed the
problem and rebooted.

FWIW, everytime I've looked at Netcraft's longest uptime records, every
one of the top 50 boxes has been BSDI or FreeBSD.  I just looked again and
it is still true:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

Rob

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