SCO has revealed it plans migration options extending the intellectual property program launched earlier this year.
It revealed it would probably provide customers with financial incentives and discounts to migrate to SCO Unix, other vendors’ Unix, and other proprietary operating systems, probably Windows.
It claimed the migration program was conceived following feed back from some users, who decided that if Linux is no-longer free they would move back to Unix.
The company’s line, though, will do little to silence conspiracy theorists that believe SCO is working with Microsoft Corp’s {MSFT] blessing to undermine Linux.
Many organizations are abandoning Unix for Linux because of cost, and it is debatable whether SCO’s UnixWare runtime license would outstrip the cost of running a Unix server.
Microsoft, meanwhile, emerged as one of the first ISVs to take-out a SCO license.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
