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UnXis Group To Acquire SCO

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

Evil-G writes "In an email on Friday, SCO informed its partners that UnXis Inc. was chosen as the successful bidder for SCO's Unix software business on 26 January. The slightly convoluted phrasing is probably due to SCO's current reorganization under Chapter 11. On 16 February, the transaction is to be submitted for approval to the bankruptcy court where SCO's case is pending."

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  1. SCO has a software business? by fish+waffle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought they were just patent trolls.

    1. Re:SCO has a software business? by Ritchie70 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think you will find that there is still a large installed base of SCO products in the various vertical markets. It's hard to change that sometimes.

      None of that, of course, means that anyone is still paying for support...

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  2. All of this has happened before... by Mark19960 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And will happen again.

    They tried once before and the judge blew their ship out of the water.
    What makes their chances any better this time?

  3. Just who is "UnXis Inc."? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can anybody shed any light on just who "UnXis Inc." actually is? What is going on here?

  4. Re:So all SCO has left is lawsuits? by petermgreen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because they do still have customers who want/need support, updates (at least enough to keep it running on new hardware as their old hardware dies) licenses etc. That buisness is clearly worth something. How much is debatable but it's almost certainly not zero.

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  5. Re:UnXis is a shell company owned by SCO? by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Be that as it may, the fact is that SCO failed because they did not own what they claimed to own, and Groklaw played a part in that, at least so far as keeping the case out there even as the courts gave McBride and his legal team way too much rope. IBM can be a major asshole, but we were all on the same team at that point, and I'm damned glad that IBM didn't simply do the normal thing a large corporation would do and buy off the smaller company making the claims

    And, as I said, PJ's identity is irrelevant to all of this anyways. The only people who seemed obsessed with it were the crooks at SCO and a few incredibly dishonorable "journalists".

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  6. Re:So all SCO has left is lawsuits? by symbolset · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, they have a netblock. That may be worth more than the rest of the company in two weeks.

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