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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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