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Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO
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."
IBM or some other big powerhouse needs to get their lawyers on this one. Linux is getting raped by FUD here. Save us IBM!
If I were a CIO or CTO debating the TCO of *nix vs. Win2K3 to a CEO, would IBM vs. SCO be the TKO that stops the CEO from approving A/P to pay my PO for RH's LGX?
FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.
AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.
AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?
Oh, BTW - IITYWIMWYBMAD?
Gartner is Microsoft's bitch.
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)."