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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."
How surprising that to you, everyone is a shill for Microsoft, and everything is a ploy by Microsoft. Oh, and people "can't fight Lunix like they could a regular company."
This isn't 1998, dude.
"Sufferin' succotash."
AFAIK Linus has stated that most if not all of the code that SCO is B1tchin' about has be rewritten in 2.6 . The offending code was already planned to be replaced as is was a little bit to "old school" unixy and didn't play nice with some of the new scheduling AND the new SMP code is better than the old SMP code that was in question.
So why not just speed up developement of 2.6 kernels in Distros and just skip this whole issue? I personally think that IBM will win based on my limited legal knowledge and what I have read so IBM should be fine and SCO will fade away.