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At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, The SCO Group imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell and others would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on SCO-owned Unix code.

Four small Linux vendors this week said they're joining together to create a common code base in an effort to attract more independent software vendors and hardware makers to support their versions of the open-source operating system.

UnitedLinux began with much energy and promise in May 2002, as four Linux vendors joined to to create a standardized, certified and robust enterprise-focused version of the open-source operating system.

The SCO Group Inc. predicted on Thursday that it would book between US$9 million and US$12 million in revenue on Unix licensing deals with technology companies in its next financial quarter.

The escalating legal battle between The SCO Group and IBM probably won't be resolved anytime soon, but SCO's four-month-old allegations continue to churn lively controversy in the open-source community.

The SCO Group Inc. this week followed through on a threat it made in March and ordered IBM to stop using, selling and distributing its AIX operating system, which SCO claims is an "unauthorized derivative" of SCO's protected System V Unix code.

As it promised to do two weeks ago, The SCO Group Inc. has revealed to several industry analysts some of the Linux source code that it claims was illegally copied from Unix. But opinions vary on what the revelations may mean and how they may fit in with the US$1 billion lawsuit that Lindon, Utah-based SCO filed against IBM in March. That suit alleges that IBM misappropriated SCO Unix trade secrets by putting some of the code into Linux.

If IBM Corp. wants to buy The SCO Group Inc. and end SCO's ongoing Unix licensing assault on Linux, CEO Darl McBride is apparently all ears.

Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux servers on company networks in areas such as file and print services and Web services.

Operating systems vendor The SCO Group rarely makes waves, but three weeks ago it rocked the boats of Linux users and vendors.

Operating systems vendor The SCO Group rarely makes waves, but three weeks ago it rocked the boats of Linux users and vendors.