UnixWare is a flavor of the Unix operating system. It was originally released by Univel, a joint-owned venture of AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Novell. In June 1993 Novell acquired USL and UNIX System V source code from AT&T and formed Novell Unix Systems Group. The term software company could be applied to; a) a company that produces software or b) a company that distributes software from a third party or c) a company that provides services for software. ... A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. ... Univel was a joint partnership of Novell and AT&Ts Unix System Laboratories (USL) that developed the UnixWare operating system. ... The SCO Group, Inc. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to Unix Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computer science the kernel is the core of an operating system. ... It has been suggested that Kernel and its variants be merged into this article or section. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... Proprietary software is software that has restrictions on using and copying it, usually enforced by a proprietor. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to Unix Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... Univel was a joint partnership of Novell and AT&Ts Unix System Laboratories (USL) that developed the UnixWare operating system. ... AT&T Inc. ... UNIX Systems Laboratories or USL was originally organized as part of Bell Labs in 1989. ... Novell, Inc. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Novell, Inc. ... It has been suggested that Traditional Unix be merged into this article or section. ... AT&T Inc. ...

For some time in the early 1990s UnixWare was one of the "three pillars" of Novell's long-term business strategy, as Ray Noorda put it, they were "NetWare, UnixWare and AppWare". At the time their traditional cash cow, NetWare, was rapidly being displaced by Windows NT-based servers, and Novell was trying to diversify. At the same time Noorda had an intense personal hatred towards Bill Gates, and was in the process of spending much of Novell's war chest purchasing a suite of products he could use to "take on" MS in the market, or through lawsuits. Raymond Noorda (born 1924) was a U.S. computer businessman. ... In business, a cash cow is a product or a business unit that generates unusually high profit margins: so high that it is responsible for a large amount of a companys operating profit. ... Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. ... William Henry Bill Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worlds largest software company (as of March 2006). ... In business, a war chest is a stash of money set aside to deal with unexpected changes in the business environment. ...

Having failed to make any headway with the technically interesting DR-DOS, it appears Noorda saw UnixWare as a way to make an "end run" around Windows' dominance, providing Novell with a powerful operating system that could compete with NT (which was not yet well established), but with a much longer history and considerably more testing. There was an attempt to combine NetWare and UnixWare to create a single new system known as SuperNOS (Network Operating System), which would offer users the well-known NetWare networking services, while offering developers the well-known Unix development platform. Although Novell already offered a way for third parties to write code for NetWare, but it was an arduous process that UnixWare would dramatically improve. DR-DOS is a DOS-family-compatible operating system for IBM PC-compatible personal computers, originally developed by Gary Kildalls Digital Research and derived from CP/M-86. ...

UnixWare never really had a chance to prove itself in the marketplace. By the time it was starting to mature in late 1994, Noorda was in the process of being forced out of Novell. With his departure the new management decided to return to the cash cow, ignoring and then selling off all of the acquisitions Noorda made over the previous few years. This was, in retrospect, a terrible move; SuperNOS was perhaps the only obvious way for them to stay relevant. But, as one of the "Noordisms", management saw it as just another useless product distracting them from the "real" market.

Novell sold UnixWare in 1995 to the Santa Cruz Operation, which in turn sold its Unix-related businesses to Caldera Systems in 2001. Caldera changed its name to SCO Group in 2002, and this SCO Group is the current proprietor of UnixWare. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tarantella, Inc. ... The SCO Group, Inc. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The SCO Group, Inc. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...