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Hemos
on from the darnit-we-need-more-money dept.
lazlo gave us the heads-up-SCO is going to be offering Linux support now, in an attempt to boost revenue. It's funny how much things can change in only a few months.
SCO Unix is going to be dead pretty soon, and it had nothing to do with SCO's previous attitude. What has happened is that Linux made operating systems a commodity. When Linux starts doing things that the big Unices do (real soon now), then Solaris, HPUX, etc., will be dying off also.
I would suspect that in five or ten years, no is going to care what OS you use. Mix and match Linux/Hurd/etc with GNU/BSD/Etc with Gnome/KDE/UDE/etc as you see fit. It won't matter anymore. It will be like PC's today. It really doesn't matter much if you use Intel/AMD/Cyrix with Asus/FIC/etc MB's or with Seagate/WD/etc drives.
SCO can certainly ride this OS shattering storm out. They have the expertise to do it. All they need is to join the community and make an SCO/Linux distribution. It would be a tempting distro, after all they've been in the i386/Unix business longer than anyone. Keep supporting SCO/Unix in your existing customer base, but realize that it will fade away.
-- A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
This will be interesting...
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Ami+Ganguli
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SCO is the one company that will definitely be put out of business by Linux if they don't change their business model. It's good that they recognize this while they're still profitable.
The fact is that Red Hat alone has far greater market capitalization than SCO right now. That means Red Hat by itself has enough investment capital to dwarf anything SCO can put into research and development. Add to that all the other parties that are investing time and money into Linux, and SCO doesn't stand a chance.
Unfortunatly, SCO only has 40 people in their consulting group (not really surprising, since I've never heard of them before). They're going to have to work really hard to convince people that they're credible at anything other than SCO software.
-- It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow
Failover clustering to 16-nodes, a journaled file system, 32-way SMP for starters... This is all good stuff in UnixWare7 - and all recently written, without the (c)AT&T. Red Hat could buy SCO, open source it tomorrow, and Linux would be unanswerable in datacentres. And doesn't SCO own the UNIX (TM)? And so Linux would officially become *the* official Unix?:-)
I thought I read an article just yesterday where SCO claimed to hold 41% of the Unix market because the are the *cough* *cough* "leader in stability and scalability" *cough* *cough*. They also claimed to own 80% of the Unix on Intel market.
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SCO Unix is going to be dead pretty soon, and it had nothing to do with SCO's previous attitude. What has happened is that Linux made operating systems a commodity. When Linux starts doing things that the big Unices do (real soon now), then Solaris, HPUX, etc., will be dying off also.
I would suspect that in five or ten years, no is going to care what OS you use. Mix and match Linux/Hurd/etc with GNU/BSD/Etc with Gnome/KDE/UDE/etc as you see fit. It won't matter anymore. It will be like PC's today. It really doesn't matter much if you use Intel/AMD/Cyrix with Asus/FIC/etc MB's or with Seagate/WD/etc drives.
SCO can certainly ride this OS shattering storm out. They have the expertise to do it. All they need is to join the community and make an SCO/Linux distribution. It would be a tempting distro, after all they've been in the i386/Unix business longer than anyone. Keep supporting SCO/Unix in your existing customer base, but realize that it will fade away.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
SCO is the one company that will definitely be put out of business by Linux if they don't change their business model. It's good that they recognize this while they're still profitable.
The fact is that Red Hat alone has far greater market capitalization than SCO right now. That means Red Hat by itself has enough investment capital to dwarf anything SCO can put into research and development. Add to that all the other parties that are investing time and money into Linux, and SCO doesn't stand a chance.
Unfortunatly, SCO only has 40 people in their consulting group (not really surprising, since I've never heard of them before). They're going to have to work really hard to convince people that they're credible at anything other than SCO software.
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow
Failover clustering to 16-nodes, a journaled file system, 32-way SMP for starters... This is all good stuff in UnixWare7 - and all recently written, without the (c)AT&T. Red Hat could buy SCO, open source it tomorrow, and Linux would be unanswerable in datacentres. And doesn't SCO own the UNIX (TM)? And so Linux would officially become *the* official Unix? :-)
I thought I read an article just yesterday where SCO claimed to hold 41% of the Unix market because the are the *cough* *cough* "leader in stability and scalability" *cough* *cough*. They also claimed to own 80% of the Unix on Intel market.
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them