I seem to remember Bob Palmer at Digital going legal with Intel, and threatening to with Microsoft, with IP related issues. However, he seemed to come out with a high value sale of a lot of semiconductor capacity to Intel, and various concessions to do an Alpha version of NT at the time.
This guy McBride seems to be following the same sort of strategy as North Korea... don't invite the UN in to do inspections, just ask the good old US of A to come in with offers of money.
Somehow this guy at SCO has failed to replicate the same success as Palmer without making it look like a protection racket.
Was his real plan to get IBM to buy the company?
I agree that the book is a good one (and I built my site after reading it). However, it reflects life at the dawn of PHP 4.0, and several things (particularly on PHP now shutting off globals by default, and changes on session control) now lead the user into some frustrating debugging sessions under 4.2.x onwards. At least until the PHP newsgroups and some of the more modern PHP books come to the rescue.
I'd add "PHP Cookbook" (O'Reilly), "PHP Developers Cookbook" (SAMS) and "Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL" (O'Reilly) alongside this book as good supplements to the more dated Welling/Thomson work. At least until they update it...
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I seem to remember Bob Palmer at Digital going legal with Intel, and threatening to with Microsoft, with IP related issues. However, he seemed to come out with a high value sale of a lot of semiconductor capacity to Intel, and various concessions to do an Alpha version of NT at the time. This guy McBride seems to be following the same sort of strategy as North Korea... don't invite the UN in to do inspections, just ask the good old US of A to come in with offers of money. Somehow this guy at SCO has failed to replicate the same success as Palmer without making it look like a protection racket. Was his real plan to get IBM to buy the company?
I agree that the book is a good one (and I built my site after reading it). However, it reflects life at the dawn of PHP 4.0, and several things (particularly on PHP now shutting off globals by default, and changes on session control) now lead the user into some frustrating debugging sessions under 4.2.x onwards. At least until the PHP newsgroups and some of the more modern PHP books come to the rescue. I'd add "PHP Cookbook" (O'Reilly), "PHP Developers Cookbook" (SAMS) and "Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL" (O'Reilly) alongside this book as good supplements to the more dated Welling/Thomson work. At least until they update it...