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SCO Change Their Name to Tarantella

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.

GoodPint sent in a story so bizarre that you'll swear I made it up because nothing interesting is happening 'cuz its august and everyone is on vacation... Whats left of SCO is now renaming itself. The best name they could come up with was Tarantella... conjuring up warm fuzzy images for countless investors, as well as limitless mock fodder for folks like me. Reminds of an old Onion story... "New Corporate Logo Changes Everything".

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  1. Well, Name Change... by suwalski · · Score: 4

    It's amazing what a name change can do. A new corporate image can completely change the meaning of the company, and it can motivate the employees. I'm not saying that this is necessarily happening in this casse, but a name change and even a new logo is healthy every now and then.

  2. The rename game. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5

    Renaming always helps. Look what "Itanium" did for "Merced" and "W2K" did for "NT 5".

    I'm thinking about renaming my "Chevy" to "Jaguar", my scratch-built PC to "HAL 9001", and myself to "Bond, James Bond".

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  3. They've got a new product by Iron_Slinger · · Score: 4

    SCO, err Tarantella has a new product called, surprisingly enough, tarantella. It's basically a web app that allows different platforms to run applications through it.

    There is a demo here

    It's pretty cool, but it's dirt slow.

    They've got it set up so you can run Word or Powerpoint, a few unix apps, etc. all on your web browser.

    IS

  4. Why Free SCO Sucks by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 5
    Free SCO stuff sucked because they didn't want to release it. Their low-end server share was getting eaten alive by Linux (though it had been on its way out for quite a while) and so they thought they could jump on the bandwagon and keep making their money.

    Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Since they didn't offer anything (well, certainly nothing worth the price) that Linux didn't, they couldn't compete.

    SGI, on the other hand, has the right idea. By giving up IRIX and supporting Linux development, they're

    • freeing up mucho resources to work on hardware, their primary source of revenue (which usually came with the software) and
    • making an already good operating system even better, by working on the XFS port, XFree86 development, and numerous smaller projects (like the testing suite)

    SGI makes out well, and Linux makes out well. This is how free software can help companies, not a half-hearted attempt at releasing stuff that the company doesn't even want.

    -grendel drago

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    Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
  5. Uh, this is nothing new... by erat · · Score: 4

    For those who are not aware of the software SCO actually sells (and until the merger is approved, the software that they still sell), OpenServer and Unixware are only two of their offerings. They have been offering a virtual network server/client system called Tarantella for some time now. It mimics Citrix's VNC client for Windows, but Tarantella is run through any web browser (maybe Citrix's offering is as well; I haven't tried either, personally).

    SCO is selling off their server and service divisions, but they're keeping their Tarantella division. It's only logical that they rename their company after the only product they're going to be selling. Everything that made SCO known other than this new product is being sold, so in essence what is SCO if it only sells Tarantella?

    It's an odd name, yes, but the name change is logical IMNSHO.