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SCO Layoffs Begin

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slow-motion-train-wreck dept.

StevisF sends us to the Salt Lake Tribune for this news: "SCO Group Inc. says it is planning to lay off 16 of its 123 employees and has asked a federal bankruptcy court to keep their identities secret because it fears they could be harassed."

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  1. Start? They never stopped. by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Informative

    This isn't the beginning of the layoffs.

    Not too long ago, the SCO Group (Caldera) had hundreds of employees in several offices in the US and overseas. The SCO Group has had many layoffs since 2001. Someone even went to the trouble of graphing the history:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SCO-2001-2006-headcount-by-department.jpg

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group#Charts

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    "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
  2. Re:What? No comments...? by belmolis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that this is anti-climactic. They haven't laid off everybody but the book-keeper. They're still technically in reorganization, not terminal bankruptcy. SCO hasn't yet been delisted. No criminal charges have been filed. SCO has been so bad, we want blood. To paraphrase Conan, we want "to crush SCO, to see them driven before us, and to rejoice in the lamentations of their women".

  3. I kinda feel sorry for the employees. by tetrahedrassface · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I tagged this as "burnbabyburn". If you are an employee of SCO this has to be scary for sure. Most SCO employees probably have kids and families and are good people. We have and continue to blame the management. Employees don't control this situation and never did. They are probably helpless, and clueless. Hopefully our community can look past these things, and recognize this. At least I hope we can. We all have to eat.

    Don't blame employees for managerial fuckups.

  4. Re:Wow. I'm about to comment on. . . by daviddennis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't see any reason to be vindictive against those who worked on a pioneering version of microcomputer Unix, from way before the time it got cool. For a long time, I'm sure this was a source of great pride, and it's tough to give up on a company that's been handing you your paycheck for eons.

    The lawyers, alas, have already gotten rich off this and I don't think destroying them is within our power. Darl McBride and the top executives have probably managed to funnel money out of the company by selling stock. Anyway, they'll be last to be laid off, for sure.

    D