Yahoo! SCOX Review

Message ID: 294125 Posted By: drichards1953 Posted On: 2005-08-22 11:19:00 Subject: Welcome Brian! Recs: 26 Brian, I know the story of SCOG is confusing. It is a mess that only seems to get worse, on a daily basis. As Director of Research & Technology for a law firm I follow the cases for several reasons. The lawyers in the firm that handle IP issues are stunned by the case. Ten years ago I did support Unix in every way possible. It worked, worked well and was not an M$ product. Unix stagnated about five years ago making it nearly worthless to me, except for legacy purposes. Linux has come a very long way, and rightly so. You also need to understand that the management of CalderaSCO would not know a line of code if it bit them in the butt. The management of oldSCO and Microport clearly knew something about code and coding. For many of us the Caldera distro of Linux was our first exposure to commercially distributed Linux. It was good, at that time. Ha...

Message ID: 270185 Posted By: drichards1953 Posted On: 2005-06-01 16:48:00 Subject: How far till bankruptcy for SCOX? Recs: 13 I find the financials they just released interesting. In just six months their assets have declined roughly 35%! This is not the sign of a healthy company. As we know the assets did not decline because of something like selling a division, as they have no divisions. How much longer can SCOX limp along? I doubt much longer. Clearly they do not have a growing customer base and the chance of them prevailing in any of the litigation they started is very, very slim. If the Courts ordered SCOX to pay for the costs related to the non-sense litigation. say DaimlerChrysler that would finish off their available cash. I cannot imagine why any company would come "aboard" SCO Group as a new customer. They might get a few existing customers to upgrade to the planned new version of Open Server, but it does not appear to be a large number. ...