SCO Change Their Name to Tarantella

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".

Comments

The rename game.

[Black Parrot]

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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Why Free SCO Sucks

[Grendel Drago]

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