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Revision as of 05:11, 20 August 2008
Project Monterey was an attempt to build a single Unix operating system that ran across a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, as well as supporting multi-processing. The core of the project was an attempt to create an enterprise-class UNIX for the IA-64, which at the time was expected to eventually dominate the UNIX server market. Announced in October 1998, several Unix vendors were involved; IBM provided POWER and PowerPC support from AIX, Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) provided IA-32 support, and Sequent added multi-processing (MP) support from their DYNIX/ptx system. Intel Corporation provided expertise and ISV development funding for porting to the new IA-64 platform, which had not yet been released at that time.[1]
In May 2001, the project announced the availability of a beta test version AIX-5L for the IA-64, basically meeting its original primary goal. However, Intel had missed its delivery date for the Itanium (the initial IA-64 hardware) by two years, and the Monterey software had no market.
With the exception of the IA-64 port and Dynix MP improvements, much of the Monterey effort was an attempt to standardize existing versions of Unix into a single compatible system. Such efforts had been undertaken in the past (e.g., 3DA) and had generally failed, as the companies involved were too reliant on vendor lock-in to really support a standard that would allow their customers to leave for other products. With Monterey each of the vendors already had a niche they expected to continue to serve in the future: POWER and IA-64 for IBM, IA-32 and IA-64 for SCO. It is not entirely clear what market Sequent expected to serve.
The project rapidly became unmanageable as all involved attempted to find a niche in the rapidly developing Linux market and focused their efforts elsewhere. Sequent was acquired by IBM in 1999. In 2000, SCO's UNIX business was purchased by Caldera Systems, a Linux distributor, who later renamed themselves to SCO Group. In the same year, IBM eventually declared Monterey dead.[2] Intel, IBM, Caldera, and others had also been running a parallel effort to port Linux to IA-64, Project Trillian, which delivered workable code in February 2000. In 2001, IBM announced a major effort to support Linux.[3]
The breakdown of Project Monterey lead to a lawsuit in 2003, where SCO Group sued IBM over their contributions to Linux. The courts later found that SCO did not own the core UNIX copyrights.
IBM sold only 32 licences of Monterey in 2001, and fewer in 2002.[4] [5]
References
- ^ Hughs-Rolwands and Chabib (August 31, 1999). "Project Monterey" (PDF). Project Monterey presentation. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ Jones, Pamela (April 25 2005). "More Evidence Project Monterey Partners Knew Linux Was the Future". Groklaw. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
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- ^ Borchers, Detlef (2005-08-28). "SCO vs. Linux: 32 mal Monterey". Heise Online. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ Jones, Pamela (August 25, 2005). "2002 IBM Internal Email on Project Monterey - "No One Wants It"". Groklaw. Retrieved 2007-05-20.