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SCO Consultant S2 Strategic Consulting In Depth

Posted by timothy on from the smackdown dept.

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.

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  1. Address for S2 Consulting is a house... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...albeit a mansion. The mapquest map shows this address about as high as you can go in the salt lake valley.

  2. Wayback archive for S2 by merc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not sure how current the other listings for S2 are, but wayback machine shows their old website, which contains some interesting demographic data (particularly, an office in Redmond, WA).

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  3. Re:IANAL by Zeinfeld · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...in light of Microsoft being declared in violation of anti-trust law, can they funnel money to others to tie up competitors in court?

    I said at the time that it was a really bad idea for the Netscape guys and Scott McNealy to start this particular type of pissing contest. In the first place the DoJ would have given Microsoftr a much tougher time if they had stuck to the original case rather than getting into the Web and Java stuff where the case was very weak.

    But more importantly the motives of Sun and Netscape looked to be mostly about how to set up an alibi for their own monumental incompetence. Oh dear, company folded, must have been those evil guys in Redmond not my own incompetence...

    Oh well at least this time that fool Jackson won't be involved.

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  4. Re:Phone "Out of order" for several days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have to suspect they're out of business since their Web site shows a plain image with no content while archive.org shows they had previous content. And www.siliconstemcell.com, showing the same whois information as s2.com and s2.net, redirects to the FBI site. Also, looking up S2 at https://secure.utah.gov/bes/bes shows them as delinquent.