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New Caldera Promised
An anonymous reader writes "SCO has announced their plans to release a new version of Caldera Linux by the end of the year. From the announcement: 'To provide extensive reliability and performance features, the Linux Kernel 2.5 codebase has been merged with recently developed additions to SCO's world leading UNIX core operating system. Already contained code owned by SCO is still included benefiting the stability and overall experience opposed to recent Linux kernel releases.' The question is, is anyone listening?"
What is Caldera?
Is this what they mean by "Linux for Dummies"?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
caldera
n : a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression
It somehow just seems so fitting...
. . .the pressrelease claims the lawsuit is nearing the end and they probably know they will lose.
I particularly like this following bit:
"SCO is eager to be the only future provider of Linux Systems for the enterprise market."
I'll just bet they are.
I really like their disclaimer where they, if they so choose, say it's all the communitys fault if they fail with their "new" endeavour.
Ah, well, but then that's a responsibilty I'm willing to shoulder:
"It's all your fault."
"Why, thank you."
KFG
...would anyone still give a shit?
SCO could create the Perfect Operating System. It could be blessed by God, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates at a joint press conference. And I still wouldn't use it just because it was SCO that released it. They've shown us that just because they support it today doesn't mean they won't file a lawsuit against anyone using it tomorrow. Any business that trusts SCO is obviously being run by idiots.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Well, let's see.
Not a good sign.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Continuing on that thread: I know what a Linux system is (or a GNU/Linux system), but what is a Linux System?
"As according to the Yankee Group SCO OpenServer products still outbeat Linux' yearly uptime by about 20 percent, world Leading companies should still consider to upgrade to SCO's UnixWare and OpenServer series."
They have summer interns writing these releases, right? Outbeat isn't a word. "world Leading" companies? "consider to upgrade" ?
Rather, I think they have an 8th grader in their shop. "I outbeat you on that UT2K4 swerver bizzitchizzzz!!!"
SCO is so much of a joke that it's hard to post a joke that is more funny than the situation itself. What will top it though, is news about Darl being some inmate's bitch in a federal penitentiary. :)
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
I thought Ballmer threw chairs...but then again, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he was throwing feces too.
Of course. When he runs out of chairs, he has to make do with stools instead.
It is official.
Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO 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 falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
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 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.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO 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 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.
How was that?
http://saveie6.com/
$699 seems a bit expensive for linux.
$cat
Yep, free entertainment.
m ent.
It's like the sitcom that wouldn't die.
*grabs more popcorn*
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commit
A smoking hole in Lindon, Utah? Once IBM's lawyers have finished with them, I can believe that.