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Smallfoot
Smallfoot is the name of both a Rapid application development toolkit and an embedded operating system designed and released by Caldera Systems/Caldera International/The SCO Group in both UnixWare and Linux formats. Created for use in embedded environments such as point of sale systems and gaming, the toolkits are used to create specifically tailored operating systems geared towards the desired use. These customized and stripped down versions of the operating systems make less of a footprint, hence the names ''Smallfoot embedded UNIX'' and ''Smallfoot embedded Linux'' respectively.〔
Smallfoot is also notable in that it was a key Linux product of The SCO Group, developed for both the UNIX and Linux platforms and distributed by SCO and Caldera Systems/Caldera International after its purchase of SCO. In the SCO vs IBM lawsuit, SCO denied distribution of Linux kernel code, however SCO Smallfoot is based on both 2.4.10 and 2.6.1 Linux kernel versions.
==History==
The name Smallfoot (whilst trademarked by SCO) was never the intended product's final name. It was thought up by both Jack Richards and David Taylor as a working name; both thought something better would be thought up by marketing.
Smallfoot was proposed in 2001 by Justin 'Jack' Richards, then-principal open source consultant for EMEIA. Richards joined SCO in 1999 as the first dedicated Linux consultant and was tasked with building SCO's consulting resource in this area. Richards was a contributor (one of many) to Matthew Marsh's "Linux Networking Unleashed" book. The Smallfoot concept was championed by David Taylor, vice president of Professional Services at SCO, who gave the go-ahead for initial prototypes to be written.
Smallfoot . . . started as a way of positioning Linux as a way forward for SCO customers using the outdated 3.2.4.2 OpenServer POS solution. We (SCO) had literally millions of POS seats around the world using this almost pre-historic version of UNIX and we couldn't support it forever, not to mention the fact that the global sales force just couldn't understand selling Linux. I'd come to SCO to inject Linux into its veins - a new life blood to a declining market share - and a Linux POS platform seemed like the path of least resistance. I spoke with Dave () about some work I had been doing and suggested that we should look into Linux POS. He asked some questions about technology, the market and the competitors and from that point on he was hooked.
--Jack Richards (17 August 2007)
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