Web site: www.xinuos.com/products/unixware-7/
Origin: USA
Category: Workstation, Server
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86>
Based on: UNIX System V
Wikipedia: UnixWare
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 7 Definitive 2018 | 2017
UnixWare – a Unix derivative for the Intel x86 platform with support for multiprocessor systems, which was developed by the joint venture Univel between Novell and Unix System Laboratories (USL) based on UNIX SVR4.
From the late 1980s, USL developed UNIX System V Release 4 in collaboration with Sun Microsystems. Univel released the first version in November 1992, which was based on the kernel of the UNIX System V Release 4.2 developed by USL.
In June 1993, Novell acquired the remaining shares of USL from AT&T and thus also Univel in full. The Novell Unix Systems Group was formed and took over further development.
In December 1995, the Novell Unix business was sold to Santa Cruz Operation (later Tarantella, Inc.), whose Unix department was taken over by Caldera International (since 2002 SCO Group) in 2001. At the beginning of 1998, SCO released UnixWare 7, which is a convergence product of UnixWare 2 and OpenServer 5 and is based on UNIX SVR5. The graphical managers for system administration known from OpenServer and the OUDK development system were among the innovations.
UnixWare 7.1 was launched in 2000. The new functions include Webtop, extensions for high availability and improved Java support. For fail-safe systems there was UnixWare NonStopCluster, developed in collaboration with Compaq, and later a smaller solution called UnixWare NonStopCluster+IP. In May 2001, SCO’s Unix business was taken over by Caldera Systems. After the switch to Caldera, UnixWare 7.1.2, which was under development, was renamed Caldera OpenUnix 8 and marketed under this name. The included “Linux Kernel Personality” allowed Linux programs to be run efficiently without having to resort to emulation. After Caldera was renamed “The SCO Group”, the name UnixWare returned in version 7.1.3. The new system contained more ports of open source programs and extensions for web services.
“UnixWare” is a registered trademark of the Open Group and is used under license by the SCO Group.
