History
The name Smallfoot (whilst trademarked by SCO) was never the intended product's final name. It was thought up by both Jack Richards and David Taylor as a working name; both thought something better would be thought up by marketing.
Smallfoot was proposed in 2001 by Justin 'Jack' Richards, then-principal open source consultant for EMEIA. Richards joined SCO in 1999 as the first dedicated Linux consultant and was tasked with building SCO's consulting resource in this area. Richards was a contributor (one of many) to Matthew Marsh's "Linux Networking Unleashed" book. The Smallfoot concept was championed by David Taylor, vice president of professional services at SCO, who gave the go-ahead for initial prototypes to be written.
Smallfoot . . . started as a way of positioning Linux as a way forward for SCO customers using the outdated 3.2.4.2 OpenServer POS solution. We (SCO) had literally millions of POS seats around the world using this almost pre-historic version of UNIX and we couldn't support it forever, not to mention the fact that the global sales force just couldn't understand selling Linux. I'd come to SCO to inject Linux into its veins - a new life blood to a declining market share - and a Linux POS platform seemed like the path of least resistance. I spoke with Dave about some work I had been doing and suggested that we should look into Linux POS. He asked some questions about technology, the market and the competitors and from that point on he was hooked. --Jack Richards (17th August 2007)
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