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Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit

Posted by timothy on from the hard-faced-two-word-gesture dept.

gaurab writes "A survey on Internetweek says 'SCO's Linux lawsuit and threats seem to be having little affect on IT managers except to make them angry. Fully 91 percent of people responding to an InternetWeek Reader Question said they will not change their Linux deployment plans as a result of SCO's actions.' The article is also available at Yahoo!"

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  1. The principle of least resistance by _Sambo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a one line synopsis of the article:

    If SCO wins, we'll worry about changing our approach. Since this hasn't occurred, we're not going to act like it already has.

    Why would they do anything else? Let's start laying our developers and support teams off because SCO MIGHT be able to shut us down.

    Even if SCO wins, the Linux corporations will likely find another path to offer what they've offered in the past: a quality software alternative to windows.

    Is this really news?

  2. Subject never came up by barcodez · · Score: 5, Informative

    My company is currently porting our flagship product to Linux (just runs on one commercial Unix based OS at the moment) this is due to overwelming requests for a Linux version from our bluschip client base. The SCO issue has not had the slightest effect on our plans or our clients.

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  3. Re:9% is a lot by jfinke · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well, like I stated in an earlier message, I am one of the unfortunates who this affects. My company is extremely sensetive to IP issues right now because they are already involved in a lawsuit involving IP.

    What gets me, however, is that the lawsuit filed by SCO doesn't talk about the same code being anywhere. It talks about technologies that IBM and its subsideraries developed for "UNIX" systems.

    Correct if I am wrong, but the whole suit is about the original license from ATT that states that they own all derivative works of UNIX.

    Everything else is just a red herring.

  4. Yes, but these are REAL people by burgburgburg · · Score: 2, Informative

    People making REAL business decisions. Not the mythical cave and under-bridge dwellling creatures that tend to inhabit that web site destructive land we call /.

  5. It affected us for sure... :-( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm the network tech manager / sysadmin for a small city govt and we had been planning for over a year to migrate away from our present NT4-based network and go to Linux and Samba, but the FUD from this lawsuit has instead convinced the city administration to stop our Linux project dead in its tracks and allocate nearly $100K to "upgrade" (sic) to Windows 2003 instead. It gets even worse... we were also just about to buy a new RS6000/p630 6C4 machine to replace an aging H50 server that runs Oracle, but instead our IT dept is now being micromanaged-ordered to move all the Oracle databases off AIX and onto a Windows box instead, which is going to be real fun, since the financial apps that use those Oracle databases have tons of ksh scripts imbedded in them and I'm going to have to figure out how to port all that stuff to run on a Windows server environment instead. I just hope that the Cygwin environment and bash shell will allow me to get me there.