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SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2
GreyPoopon writes "Computerworld has an article referring to SCO's announcement of Enterprise Linux for the Itanium 2. Base installation starts at $999 for up to four CPUs. My favorite quote: "With its new system, SCO is a little late to the Linux on Itanium 2 market." I would think being late would be the least of their worries right now. I personally consider this to be my daily dose of comedy. Newsfactor has a better article."
what's this Itanium I keep hearing about?
Shift happens. Fire it up.
RMS's favorite distribution is now available.
Isn't there some way to tell them, fuck you, stay away from our OS? Stupid double-edged sword of open source...
Does this mean they're going to have to sue themselves?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Fund the death of Linux!
If Baghdad Bob hanged himself the other day, he obviously made it to heaven, and God must have left the Reality Machine unattended.
Q: What's the difference between SCO and a carp ?
A: One is a worthless scum-sucking bottom dweller, the other is a fish...
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
"The company's base edition of Linux Server 4.0 software is licensed to accommodate up to 4 Itanium 2 processors."
OK, so it's good for a to 4-way system before you have to pay more money. But later...
"It supports 4GB of RAM..."
If you're paying out for a 4-way Itanium 2, wouldn't you (typically) want to handle more than 4GB RAM? I imagine there are applications that benefit from a 64-bit CPU but don't use much RAM, but I thought the core market was people using large amounts of data?
Or does it support more RAM and this article's just not great?
SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, has sued itself for more than $1 billion, alleging that SCO misappropriated their own Unix technology and built it into Linux.
The suit, filed Thursday afternoon in the 3rd District Court of Salt Lake County in Utah, alleges misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, breach of contract and tortious interference with SCO's business, the Lindon, Utah-based company said. SCO also sent a letter to itself on Thursday demanding that if it doesn't meet various demands, SCO will revoke it's own license to ship its version of Unix, in 100 days.
"We are alleging we have contaminated our UnitedLinux work with inappropriate knowledge from Unix," said Chris Sonfag, senior vice president of operating systems at SCO and head of the company's SCO source effort to make more money from its intellectual property.
Analysts saw the move as a desperate one for SCO, a company that hasn't been profitable in its current incarnation.
"It's a fairly end-of-life move for the stockholders and managers of that company," said Jonthan Unice, an Illuminato analyst. "I mean, hell, they've already gone ahead and filed suit against IBM - but, this is really over the top."
More information on SCO, it's lawsuit, the many boycotts against it and why they aren't exactly the ideal company can be found here.
"I filter at +6, and have yet to miss out on an important comment." (#822545)
I don't think there's any controversy at all on slashdot about SCO; there appears to be a strong consensus that they suck.
It's ironic that SCO is suing IBM over code in the Linux kernel.. but they're making profits off of Linux.
You assume they'll actually sell enough of this distro to make a profit.
Trolling is a art,
See this is all part of the strategy... sue IBM for infringing on your IP, so everyone will buy your product so that they won't be liable.
But wait, release a GPL product with your IP embedded in it... doesn't that mean that your IP is now GPL?
Boy am I confused, so SCO is suing IBM for writing software that they are now selling for themselves and benifiting from.
Where can I buy tickets to the court case? I can't wait for this!
"The similarities of sysadmins and drug dealers: both measure stuff in K's, and both have users."
You can't be serious. SCO was never a "big player". They were always a pissant little wannabe company.
If I'm going to be paying that much for an OS for a piddly little 4-CPU machine, I want someone from IBM or Sun to be available to do onsite support.
Buying from SCO isn't even on par with buying from Dell.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I wish there was some there was some way that I could be outside playing basketball, in the rain, and not get wet.
Reality: You can download the same software for free, but we know that PHBs don't trust FREE software
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Reality:Even if UnitedLinux kicks us out of their group, we can still copy their stuff, after all, it is open-source
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Reality: No, we don't have any 64-bit apps for you to run, but this just sounds way cool!
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Reality: webmin.
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Reality: Which you won't use, or you'd already be running a cluster, which you can download for free here
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Reality: We want to lock you into a long-term support contract with us, even though we didn't create the thing.
"Okay, if I'm dying, what the fuck do you call SCO on Itanium?" - BSD
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
Why would I want anything Linux? It is to Unix what a bicycle is to a luxury car. SCO will back me up on that. Wait...
They know that someone who has a quad CPU Itanium 2 can afford to spend $1000. SCO don't need to come up with something that the average slashkiddie considers to be a good price, they only need to come up with a complete product/support solution that is better than the competition.
PR News Release
SomeHickTown, Utah. (Apr 16, 2003)
The SCO Group has released a Linux server operating system for the 64-bit Intel Itanium processor, the company announced Wednesday. A SCO Product Manager was quoted as saying "As our main revenue stream is based on frivolous lawsuits we thought we'd expand further by deploying a Linux distribution based on a failing server technology - how could consumers not be tempted by this marriage made in hell?"
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