This HOWTO is not actually a HOWTO in the sense of the Linux Documentation Project. Instead, it is an instrument to investigate the commercial Linux opportunity and to list applications which were already ported and marketed in a native Linux version. As a software vendor, you probably know that you can alternatively offer Linux users a statically linked SCO version of your application which would probably run under the iBCS2 emulator (albeit with a small performance penalty and higher memory requirements). Such applications will not be listed here (but see the iBCS2 documentation).
I will not select nor deselect any particular product. Instead, everyone who wants to have his/her product included will be serviced. However, I reserve the right to shorten individual entries to keep things in shape.
If you don't find a particular product or vendor in this list, this is probably due to one of the following reasons:
In any case, please kick me if you feel someone's missing, also if you discover any errors in the file. But don't forget: I'm not being paid for that job ;-) .
Sometimes two vendor's addresses are mentioned in the "Vendor:" field. In these cases I received the information from the German subsidiary / distributor. The original manufacturer's address is always mentioned first.
My comments in the text are enclosed in parentheses () and marked with my initials "hm".
As for text formatting, I apologize that I can't put horizontal rulers between entries as suggested. linuxdoc-sgml-1.1 which I'm still using doesn't offer this feature.