SCO: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

SCO may refer to one of two possible, but distinct, companies:

• SCO Group - Company originally known as "Caldera Systems", which acquired several things from Santa Cruz Operation in 2001. Among those: source code for UNIX, two divisions of the former Santa Cruz Operation, and the "SCO" trademark. Caldera later changed its name to "SCO Group"

• Santa Cruz Operation - Company founded in 1979, which sold a major division and its namesake trademark in 2001, and renamed itself "Tarantella"

Additional related articles:

• The SCO - Linux Wars - Details of the broad front litigation and PR war the SCO Group launched against Linux

Sources:

• SCO Announces Official Closing of Sale of two Divisions to Caldera - Press release, 2001

SCO may also refer to:

• Sharable Content Objects in the organization of courseware
• The country code for Scotland, as used on the new EU version of Scotland's car registration plates