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Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the way-to-go-sco dept.

Sridhar writes "SCO's legal threats have prompted Gartner Group to recommend that companies delay deployment of critical Linux applications, determine "whether Unix or Windows will provide functions equivalent to those of Linux deployments", and take a "go-slow" approach to Linux in high-value or mission-critical production systems."

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  1. Where are the saviors? by paranode · · Score: 1, Redundant

    IBM or some other big powerhouse needs to get their lawyers on this one. Linux is getting raped by FUD here. Save us IBM!

  2. Big Surprise by cubiceye · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gartner is Microsoft's bitch.

  3. Bad only for Linux, or bad for America? (re SCO) by softwareJoe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This thread that's been simmering over at LinuxWorld for a couple of days now. One poster says: Jeez... this is a hard "discussion"... everybody has varied, valid points, thoroughly thought out and well articulated, I'm impressed with this crowd... Why is everybody so worried? Linux is out here, it's up to us to carry it on, not up to them. They won't (and can't) stop it even if they won and tried it. Why won't (or can't) they? simply because of its nature, the community would just find a way around the restrictions and code them in. Anyway, I'd like to thank everybody for some interesting reading (really)."