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SCO Consultant S2 Strategic Consulting In Depth
cdlu writes "Wondering about SCO's contractor S2? They're the people that wrote Halloween II and indemnified SCO... well, here's all you want to know about them from NewsForge." (NewsForge is part of OSDN.) Maybe not all you want to know, but enough for one day. Several readers also point out Bruce Perens' column on CNET today which reiterates the difficulty SCO faces in attempting to get past the clarification of license terms AT&T offered Unix licensees in 1985.
Phew, for a second there I thought it read "$2 Strategic Consulting".
Interesting... if not a little creepy that you decided to map out directions to their place. I hope my address never gets /.ed
Yeah, but then a few days after that you're likely to find out your new paperboy is Mike Wallace.
I hate when that happens.
KFG
I can hear the wailing of their rapidly falling stock and it makes me giddy, but really I just can't wait for the sound it will make at the end of its vertical journey ;-P
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American Idol won't be over at 8CST.
DM: Pssst, hey buddy, come'ere
Passerby: Who are you and what do you want?
DM: Wanna buy a valuable license? (opens trench coat)
Passerby: What's it a license for?
DM: I can't tell you, if I tell you I would have to kill you, but truuuusssssttt me, it contains license to use some valuable IP!
Passerby: How Much?
DM: How much you got?
Passerby: (pulling out his checkbook) I only have 12 dollars and 15 cents left in my account.
DM: That'll do.
Passerby: Who do I make the check out to?
DM: Corporate Attorneys Suing Humanity, but you can abbreviate and just make it out to C.A.S.H
The Matrix is real... but I'm only visiting!
Hello, it looks like you're trying to set up a conspiracy against Linux! Would you like to:
...
* Hire S2
* Write a letter to MS asking for money
* Buy 10,000 SCO licenses
Sidepoint: if we refer to MS as M$, microserf, etc., what must they be calling us in Redmontland? Something obscene, I don't doubt
It is official; NASDAQ confirms: the SCO Group (SCOX) is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO Group when NASDAQ confirmed that SCOX market price has dropped yet again, now down to less than a half of its October trading price. Coming on the heels of a recent NASDAQ report which plainly states that SCOX has lost more market capitilization, the market serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO Group is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by being dead last in a recent NASDAQ Losers list.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO Group faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
UnixWare is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core users. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SCO Group CEO Daryl McBride and Chris Sontag, the SCO vice president only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO Group is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Window's leader Bill Gates states that there are 70 users of Linux. How many users of UnixWare are there? Let's see. The number of UnixWare versus Linux posts on Usenet and Slashdot is roughly in a ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there must be about 70 * 5 = 350 UnixWare users.
Due to the troubles of the Lindon, Utah company, abysmal sales and so on, the SCO Group may go out of business and be taken over by Microsoft, who sells another troubled OS. Now that UnixWare is also dead, its corpse is to be turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO Group has steadily declined in market share. SCO Group is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If UnixWare is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. UnixWare continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, UnixWare is dead.
Fact: the SCO Group is dying.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/36116.html
HILARIOUS. And using licenses to shit as an example is so appropriate.
Corporatism != Free Market
I just found this help-wanted ad on Monster.com. My keyboard is now full of coffee! Find it here.
Job Description: SCO Unix Contractor
Qualified candidate will need to recover root passwords and change them, plus store securely for future use if need be.
Candidate needs to be able to understand file structure & applications running on machine(s) & determine if it is possible for the contractor to support the systems until June of this year.
Ohhh, my side hurts from laughing so hard! I wonder what the story is behind this one....