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SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 Review
JigSaw writes "Despite news about SCO being all about the lawsuit, they still sell OS products and they have a presence in the server market. UnixWare is one of these OS products. Tony Bourke reviewed its latest version, 7.1.3, and even includes benchmarks among other tests. Tony concludes that 'the lack of commercial applications and user community, the difficulty with open source applications, the SCO litigation, and the high price are all marks against UnixWare. There are just very few reasons to adopt UnixWare as your platform, and plenty of reasons to adopt (or migrate to) other platforms.'"
If you thought
ONE BILLION DOLLARS MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH?
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I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
I predict that somebody'll get modded up for explaining why SCO's distro sucks.
"Derp de derp."
Daryl,
.... tick tock ..
scorch the earth and your tree may not grow
30 days till you show us what kind of proof you really have
I heard SCO were going to find out who the makers of unixware are, and sue them for copyright and patent infrindgements. Then refuse to release documents to themselves, quote incorrect code segments and send bills to themselves.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Attn: Tony Bourke
Read your review. Hope you enjoy court and jailtime, because I'm about to sue you into oblivion. Next time you'll know whose side you should be on. Best of luck to you and your lawyers (or lack thereof)!
Your friend,
Darl
Wait, this might be the first "$X is dying" troll that's actually true.
A bleep? What the fuck is that?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=sco.com
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
No, you're think of Ray Bourke.
They should change the name to UnixWhere.
It didn't tarnish the MS name, now did it? (I know, it's just a joke, mod me down though. They spend way more time getting sued that suing anyways).
"There is no reason to use such an expensive, restrictive OS..."
It's only $100 more than Linux...
What?
A fuck? What the bleep is that?
That r0xx0rs! A slashdot mod is pointing to my website! Awesomeness^3
Linux of FreeBSD? resistance is futile?
I hear a rather large woman singing an aria...
"The Unixware product will no longer be marketable under the "SCO" name..."
Which will probably "confuse the build scripts" even more.
What?
You can't spell fiasco without SCO
SCO is claiming they have fullfilled their legal obligations ahead of the 30 day deadline by delivering 1 million sheets of paper to IBM. http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5114689.html
... and in the DRM, bind them.
No, you're thinking of the Icelandic diva and prolific shell coder, Bjork.
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
so this is what Saddam's trial will be like...
... and in the DRM, bind them.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO UnixWare community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO UnixWare has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO UnixWare because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO UnixWare continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO has lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time UnixWare developers L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
All major surveys show that UnixWare has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
When I was a boy, back during the days of Linux Kernel 1.0, we emulated SCO to run commercial applications. Now, SCO emulates *us* to run commercial apps. Total world domination, anyone?
"He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. " -- John Calvin, commenting on Genesis 1
I think the Nazis used it to run the gas chambers during the war, and it was also the OS of choice for Saddam's Scud missiles. Also, most spammers use SCO to push their filth all over the 'net. Yeah, it's a real flexible OS...
Whoops! The pages were stuck.
Ummmm, well......ok
Finkployd
Ever stop to think that maybe that's why you were non-profit? :P
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
Are you kidding? He only made it to page two before saying it had "fscking issues".
~rimshot~
~ducks~
On the lawsuit front, SCO has sued Saddam Hussein for copyright infringement.
"UNIX beard is clearly part of UNIX methods and concepts", claims SCO lawyer David Boies. UNIX beard has long tradition among UNIX kernel developers. It demonstrates authority in enterprise software development. We therefore claim that Saddam has violated our copyrights on UNIX methods and concepts, and demand that SCO UnixWare will be the sole operating system in rebuilt Iraq."