A federal court in Utah ruled that Novell Inc., not SCO Group Inc., is the rightful owner of the copyright in the Unix operating system.

The ruling is a boon to the "open source" software movement and to Linux, the freely available computer operating system that has become an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.

Enterprise Linux is the open source Linux operating system used by corporate and SMB clients for servers, desktops, workstations and mobile deployments. Enterprise Linux has become increasingly popular due to cost and customizability factors.

While two thirds of enterprise companies have some degree of interest in open-source, far fewer indicate its adoption is a high priority, according to a Forrester survey of 2,252 software decision-makers.

SCO's new position is that UnixWare is just another interchangeable name for UNIX and that SCOsource was about UnixWare, not Unix System V, but here's some more evidence that they are not the same thing and that SCOsource was primarily about UNIX System V. In this article, I'll restrict myself to things SCOfolk used to say about what SCOsource was about. As you will see, before the Honorable Dale Kimball ruled in August that the UNIX copyrights didn't pass from Novell to SCO, SCO said SCOsource was about UNIX System V source code. Now that it's time to pay Novell for those System V licenses, SCO says they were really UnixWare licenses.

Microsoft's recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by Linux advocates that you can use their operating system without any cost. Yet, you can't confuse free as in cost with free as in freedom. Here's what FOSS really means.

During the SCO vs Novell trial, last year, it was determined that Novell owned the copyrights to AT&T UNIX' source code and derivatives. Darl McBride, CEO of SCO speaking at the Novell vs SCO countertrial disagrees. He "stated that SCO holds the copyrights over UNIX", and that "many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers.

We are very familiar with Linux and its relation with UNIX.But most us of dont actually know what are differnces between the two.
Linux is called Unix-like and is not a true Unix operating system.

"A lot of enterprises have moved to Linux because they're moving off Unix and they find Linux lets them maintain their skills but move to lower-cost hardware -- x86 boxes instead of Sun or HP Unix boxes," said open source expert Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica. "HP's philosophy is, 'if you're going to move off Unix boxes, why don't you stay in the family and move to an HP Linux box?'"

In 2005, when Slumberland faced end-of-lifecycle replacements of its proprietary Unix platform, its warehouse management system (WMS) vendor suggested a move to Red Hat Linux and commodity x86 servers. Seth Mitchell, the infrastructure team manager at the large furniture retailer, gladly agreed.