I like those success stories SCO posts on their website - particularly the Linux ones:
Incredible Technologies escapes "Microsoft lock-in" with help from SCO
Customer Overview
Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Incredible Technologies (IT) is one of the leading game software providers in the world. They are committed to creating a variety of quality games at a reasonable price. They have proven that there is a big market for compelling games targeted for a wide range of players.
Golden Tee Fore! and the International Tournament System have brought back fun and excitement to street locations and players of all ages. Street operators are thrilled to have reasonably priced games that earn great profits for a long time. Distributors are enjoying the brisk sales, reliable hardware and efficient service that Incredible Technologies provides.
Business Problem
Intel based systems are the ideal platform for building coin-op systems. They are cheap, readily available and increasingly reliable. The downsides are that most vendors feel locked into the Microsoft proprietary world and pay a heavy tax for the privilege.
IT decided to explore the Linux opportunity and saw the advantages of the free software model the Open Source world provides. Using Linux software and the smallest Intel hardware footprint, they could create a brand new platform that would hit a lower price point to further expand the already huge gaming market. They needed to figure out how to migrate their games and development environment across to Linux and discern how to optimize Linux to give them the fastest and most flexible platform.
Solution
IT approached SCO to see how they could make their vision a reality. SCO's Professional Services team worked with IT to scope out and design a complete specification for their vision. Using a combination of SCO's Linux and Open Source technologies, they engineered a complete development environment for IT's game designers along with a customized version of Linux to deploy on IT's small footprint custom Intel system.
Benefits
Incredible Technologies coin-op systems now have all the power and cost effectiveness of Intel systems without the cost and lock in of the Microsoft world.
"With SCO's help, Incredible Technologies has built our next generation platform that will help keep us at the forefront of our market," said Chuck Zenkus, game designer and project manager at Incredible Technologies.
Using a combination of the latest Linux and Open Source technologies, SCO engineered a complete development environment for Incredible Technologies game designers along with a customized version of Linux to deploy on IT's small footprint custom Intel system. The result is coin-op systems that have all the power and cost effectiveness of Intel systems without the cost and lock in of a strictly proprietary operating system.
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I like those success stories SCO posts on their website - particularly the Linux ones:
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Incredible Technologies escapes "Microsoft lock-in" with help from SCO
Customer Overview
Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Incredible Technologies (IT) is one of the leading game software providers in the world. They are committed to creating a variety of quality games at a reasonable price. They have proven that there is a big market for compelling games targeted for a wide range of players.
Golden Tee Fore! and the International Tournament System have brought back fun and excitement to street locations and players of all ages. Street operators are thrilled to have reasonably priced games that earn great profits for a long time. Distributors are enjoying the brisk sales, reliable hardware and efficient service that Incredible Technologies provides.
Business Problem
Intel based systems are the ideal platform for building coin-op systems. They are cheap, readily available and increasingly reliable. The downsides are that most vendors feel locked into the Microsoft proprietary world and pay a heavy tax for the privilege.
IT decided to explore the Linux opportunity and saw the advantages of the free software model the Open Source world provides. Using Linux software and the smallest Intel hardware footprint, they could create a brand new platform that would hit a lower price point to further expand the already huge gaming market. They needed to figure out how to migrate their games and development environment across to Linux and discern how to optimize Linux to give them the fastest and most flexible platform.
Solution
IT approached SCO to see how they could make their vision a reality. SCO's Professional Services team worked with IT to scope out and design a complete specification for their vision. Using a combination of SCO's Linux and Open Source technologies, they engineered a complete development environment for IT's game designers along with a customized version of Linux to deploy on IT's small footprint custom Intel system.
Benefits
Incredible Technologies coin-op systems now have all the power and cost effectiveness of Intel systems without the cost and lock in of the Microsoft world.
"With SCO's help, Incredible Technologies has built our next generation platform that will help keep us at the forefront of our market," said Chuck Zenkus, game designer and project manager at Incredible Technologies.
Using a combination of the latest Linux and Open Source technologies, SCO engineered a complete development environment for Incredible Technologies game designers along with a customized version of Linux to deploy on IT's small footprint custom Intel system. The result is coin-op systems that have all the power and cost effectiveness of Intel systems without the cost and lock in of a strictly proprietary operating system.
http://www.sco.com/company/success/story.html?I
Get more of these fabulous sources of joy at http://www.sco.com/company/success/search.html , choosing Linux as a product...
By the way, I checked the shop and did not find a way to obtain my antidote license! So I will have to continue using Windows, I guess...