Talk:Tarantella, Inc.

Moved from Talk:Santa Cruz Operation
The "SCO at Caldera" link is defunct

It would be nice if some explanation of the acronym VAR was made :) Dysprosia 08:55, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)~


 * I have expanded the first use of VAR and made it link to existing article on VARs. -- Popsracer 09:07, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)


 * Kudos, Popsracer :) Dysprosia 09:08, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

How is "The SCO Group" the "wrong" company ? (reference to edit by The Anome ) Jay 18:53, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Read The Fine Article. Despite the name, it's not the same company as the Santa Cruz Operation in any way at all. They bought the name specifically to cause confusion. - David Gerard 20:35, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)


 * And neither is Tarantella the same company as Santa Cruz Operation, but it has a mention in the external links. Santa Cruz Operation is now no more. Its two successors are Tarantella and the SCO Group, which is why it makes sense to include both in the external links. For the external link I added I had mentioned it as "The SCO Group official website" and not "Santa Cruz Operation official website". Jay 13:41, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Nope - Tarantella, Inc. really is the same corporation, formerly known as the Santa Cruz Operation. Same company, changed name to their one profitable product, sold the doomed Unix business to Caldera. - David Gerard 14:05, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks David for the edits. Its a lot clearer now. Whats still puzzling is the tarantella official website makes no mention of the words "santa cruz operation". If they really are the same company shouldn't they have mentioned this at least in the history (http://www.tarantella.com/about/history.html) Jay 14:57, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Note they mention "1995 	Acquire UNIX technology from Novell" ... - David Gerard 15:03, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

I've started a proper entry at Tarantella, Inc. which discusses both the company and their commercially viable terminal services application. Probably bits of this article should be over there. Expansion of both would probably be good as well. - David Gerard 15:29, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

In the company history, I've separated the Unix story from the Tarantella story. It seems to make more sense this way. Thoughts? - David Gerard 22:45, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

External links?
The external links are dead, because of the takeover by Sun Microsystems; does anyone know the new and updated links? Y control 07:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I moved the old links here in case someone wants to try and track some of this down. Also updated the article to point to SUN. 65.197.19.242 22:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I fixed the broken documentation link. It now points to the collection for the current version, 4.31. Argel1200 21:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Original External Links

 * Official home page
 * Secure Global Desktop Enterprise Edition product page
 * Secure Global Desktop Terminal Services Edition product page
 * Official company history
 * Investor-related press releases

UNIX name
Note: The UNIX name is a registered trademark of the Open Group and is all caps, not "Unix."

Company vs product
I notice that there is now a separate article for "Sun Secure Global Desktop". It strikes me that it might be worthwhile to take some of the material in this article and move it there, and let this article stand just for Tarentella (and SCO) the company.

I'm going to do some cleanup on the other article, and if no one objects, at some later time migrate product information from here to there. This might help untangle the current flow of this article, which as it stands has to navigate from company to product and back again, making it a bit muddled.--NapoliRoma 22:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Update - I went and took a first pass at cleaning up the SGD article, but it still needs more attention. What I did do was extract the history of the product from this article, and I think I did a fairly reasonable job.  I also stuck a whole bunch of  tags in there, in case someone feels like figuring out what needs to be said.
 * Once the article's in reasonable shape, someone -- maybe me -- could take a pass through this article and see if some of the product-related content (specifically SGD) could now safely be removed, leaving this a more company-centered article.--NapoliRoma 00:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

split
I split the article so that it's more logical, even if it was legally different. The SCO article talks about old SCO up to 2001, and making a reference to their buying of Tarantella stuff 1993-2001. The Tarantella article talks about that, and the 2001-2005 period, before that was bought by Sun. --Joy &#91;shallot] 03:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

What is the product?
It would be great if someone who knows would add a few sentences telling what the products were. What did they do? What were they for? 198.4.83.52 (talk) 17:25, 5 January 2011 (UTC)