SCO Announces Product Line Updates

ArbiterOne writes "Techworld has the story: SCO has unveiled their upcoming product plans, including a new release of UnixWare and a version for point-of-sale devices. Oddly enough, the article states that 'SCO's continuing Unix intellectual property lawsuits against IBM, Novell and others is apparently putting customers off.' I wonder how that could have happened?"

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Time to close the shop

[SIGALRM]

"We're looking at this long term, and we see value that we can provide to our customers now and in the future," said Marc Modersitzki, a SCO spokesman. "Not only do we have a road map, but we're delivering on the road map."

It's obvious SCO's "roadmap" is less product-oriented than legal. But you have to wonder, why they would invest any resources in an aggressive marketing plan when their PR quotient is so incredibly low--much like their recent financials.

They are not the "vibrant, leading UNIX vendor to regain market share lost to Windows"... that would be like the US sending troops to Vietnam to "regain Hanoi". War over. Done deal. Time to close shop, SCO.

Re:Time to close the shop

[dinodrac]

Perhaps their real concern is that if the courts see them without any real products, then they are even less likely to take them seriously. As it stands, their entire buisness model revolves around half-baked lawsuits - not a good impression to present to the court.

Regardless, as SIGALRM stated above, its a moot point, without a continued inflow of support from the anti-Linux camps, SCO is dead.