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Xinuos Announces OpenServer X and the Xinuos Business One Developer Program

posted by CoolHand on Monday July 27 2015, @07:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the like-a-phoenix dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Xinuous (the company birthed from SCO's ashes) has announced its new OpenServer X operating system. It is described as a "mature and proven 64-bit operating system to support your most critical line of business applications, yet is affordably priced to host all computing needs", and it is "the continuation and consolidation of all previous Xinuos product families, SCO OpenServer® 5 & 6 and SCO UnixWare® 7".

According to the announcement,

Beginning with OpenServer X, the download and installation of the operating system is offered free of charge by Xinuos and includes the source code. A support bundle is available for customers who need affordable support, maintenance, upgrades and access to the tested Xinuos Application Collection. The support is available 24/7 by default at a highly competitive price.

Also announced is the Xinuos Business One Developer Program,

The new program is designed to assist developers who wish to port existing applications or build new applications to run on OpenServer X™, their recently announced secure, BSD-based open source operating system. Application developers and other partners who need applications that run on the OpenServer X operating system can join the Xinuos Business One Developer Program and benefit from a growing number of resources to assist them at every stage of their business.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by mr_mischief on Monday July 27 2015, @08:15PM

    by mr_mischief (4884) on Monday July 27 2015, @08:15PM (#214499)

    Xinuos wanted me to register as a developer (no doubt to pad their stats of people sworn to provide third-party software) just to download the documentation, including the license. So is it BSD? GPL? LGPL? MIT? Apache? Or is it "Open Source" just because they call it OpenServer X. OpenServer's never been open source before. Getting the source with the binaries and being unable to redistribute that source and changes to it is not "open source", and all I read about source code from that announcement is that it's available to the customer.

    Also, this says it's BSD-based, but OpenServer was mostly System V based previously. Is this a hybrid of BSD and the old SCO OpenServer code? Is it an open-sourcing of OpenServer? Is it a FreeBSD spinoff or something combined with branding and a support contract?

    For being such a wordy announcement, it actually says very little about the core attributes of what's being announced.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @08:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @08:24PM (#214502)

    It's Open as in "Can of Worms".

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @08:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @08:33PM (#214506)

    From their announcement they list a lot of features of FreeBSD. So take that as you will.