Editing OpenSSI (section)

==History==
The origins of ''OpenSSI'' date back to the early 1980s, when the [[LOCUS (operating system)|''LOCUS'']] [[distributed operating system]] was developed at [[UCLA]]. The group that created ″LOCUS″ went on to form the [[Locus Computing Corporation]] in 1982, and produced versions of the technology derived from it under several names. In the mid-1990s, this work culminated in the [[UnixWare NonStop Clusters]] product at [[Tandem Computers]], which by 1995 took over the team of the former Locus CC and rights to the technology. [[Compaq]] would purchase Tandem Computers in 1997. 
The ''NonStop Clusters'' were commercialized by [[Santa Cruz Operation]] as an add-on for UnixWare. When [[SCO Group]] stopped selling the product, the developers (brought in by the Tandem acquisition and now working at Compaq) ported the ″NonStop Clusters″ code to [[Linux]] and in 2001, now called '''''OpenSSI''''', released it as open source. Employees continued development for some time after Compaq being acquired by [[Hewlett-Packard]] (which happened in 2002). Over the next decade OpenSSI was enhanced by independent contributors.