Clarity 'to the rescue'
Sun CDP offers to migrate IBM VARs to Sun platforms
Sun CDP Clarity is trying to cash in on the confusion around the SCO and IBM Unix battle.
Clarity has claimed it is "coming to the rescue of IBM's resellers" by migrating IBM VARs to Sun platforms.
Simon Welch, Clarity's marketing manager, said: "If there are legal problems, we can help."
Reg Broughton, senior vice-president responsible for international operations at SCO, said: "This is part of an aggressive strategy from Sun. I don't blame Clarity for taking this approach."
However, VARs have noted that SCO's demands that Linux users should pay for UnixWare licences are falling on deaf ears.
Andy Butler, research director at Gartner, said: "Users should not start waving their cheque-books around. There is no legal precedent for what SCO is demanding, and it is not clear what laws have been broken."
Greg Carlow, managing director of reseller Repton, added: "Customers are not saying, 'We'll stop using Linux.' We have talked to Red Hat, IBM and Hewlett-Packard and they are all pretty chilled. Everyone thinks, 'Yawn, yawn, go away SCO.'"