Alliances
SCO was a primary partner in several industry alliances, intended to promote SCO operating system technology as a de facto standard for emerging hardware platforms. The most notable of these were:
- ACE - Founded by Compaq, Microsoft, MIPS Computer Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, and SCO in 1991 to drive the next generation of PCs
- 3DA - Formed by SCO and Hewlett Packard in 1995 to define the standard Unix for IA-64 systems
- Project Monterey - Formed by SCO, IBM, Sequent and Intel in 1998 to define the standard UNIX for IA-64 systems
None of these alliances was ultimately successful.
SCO was also part of 1993's COSE initiative, a more successful and broadly supported initiative to create an open and unified UNIX standard.
SCO was a founding member of 86open (1997-1999), hosting the first meeting of the Unix on Intel standards effort.
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