Univel was a joint partnership of Novell and AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) that developed the UnixWare operating system. Novell Inc ( is a global Software Corporation based in the United States specializing in enterprise operating systems such as SUSE Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and Unix System Laboratories or USL was originally organized as part of Bell Labs in 1989 UnixWare is a Unix Operating system maintained by The SCO Group (SCO An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination It existed only briefly in the period between AT&T initially divesting parts of USL in 1991, and its eventual outright purchase by Novell, which completed in 1993. The SCO Group claims that Novell later transferred all of Univel's and USL's assets to the Santa Cruz Operation in 1995, whereas Novell claims that Novell retained numerous assets in that transaction, including the copyrights, patents, the right to direct SCO to take certain actions with regards to Unix SVRx licensees and the right to license Unix to their customers. Unix System V, commonly abbreviated SysV (and usually pronounced though rarely written as System 5 was one of the versions of the Unix Operating system The matter is currently being decided in SCO v. Novell. SCO v Novell is a lawsuit brought by the SCO Group against Novell.