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Oh yeah, I'm sure Novell, RedHat and/or IBM are offering migrate-to
deals to SCO customers as we speak.
It's just such a shame that SCO ignored the way the wind was blowing a
long time. They HAD their own Linux distro at some point but killed
it. Knowledge of how to run a Unix-like OS on enterprise scale is
still a valuable possession. They could still have been a respectable
rival to RedHat and Novell if they adapted. They wouldn't be as big as
they were in their prime but still capable and ... you now...
profitable. Instead management stuck to the old proprietary OS with
big margins mindset that just doesn't fly as well as it used to.
Redhat has 15 years less experience, is profitable and is ok with less
margin.
On May 11, 1:52 pm, Robert Halloran <rkhallo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having worked in various parts of AT&T for 12 years, seeing these
> bottom-feeders trying to use UNIX as some sort of legal blackjack
> because of their own business failures steams me royally. What would
> entertain *me* is seeing some/all of the exec's responsible doing the
> orange-jumpsuit perp-walk into court for their deceptions.
> Given the court's ruled the UNIX copyrights never left Novell, my
> guess is they start up a migrate-to-SuSE program shortly after the
> rubble stops bouncing in Utah to move the remaining stragglers over.
> On May 8, 11:38 pm, sabo...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Daytraders?
> > People betting someone will buy them out to service/assimilate the
> > installbase? They DO have an installbase you now. There are still
> > companies using their stuff.
> > Yeah if you followed the case, you should now that it is very unlikely
> > now that anyone will touch them with a pole of any length.
> > If IMB, Novell, Oracle/SUN or anyone else were interested, we would
> > have heard something by now. It looks like surefire chapter 7 to me.
> > Ah well, to bad. I will miss the entertainment.