They were, until IBM broke their partnership to build the next Unix, and started peddling the foreign clone Linux instead since their international customers prreferred it being free of charge.
"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. SCO left the Unix business in 2001; 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."
IBM did not start this project with the SCO group, they started it with Santa Cruz Operations. Which other then selling off their UNIX rights to Caldera -> SCO Group has no relation.
The vast depth and breadth of not only your ignorance but your abject stupidity is not only breath taking but beyond encyclopedic!
I constantly marvel at the fact that you have enough semi-functional brain cells to even type in a response to the subjects about which you know absolutely nothing. But still you struggle mightily to prove that you have no knowledge of the subject matter, and wouldn’t understand it if it was explained to you in first grade level reading matter- something that I’m beginning to feel that would still be so far above your minimal comprehension level as to be virtually incomprehensible to you.
At least most of the people here have a small understanding of your lack of intelligence and always share a good laugh or two over your attempts to prove, again and again, said lack.
Thanks for the good laugh...