On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:06:02AM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 11:02 -0500, Steven Buehler wrote:
> > THE SCO GROUP, INC. RECEIVES NOTICE FROM
> > NASDAQ REGARDING ITS DELINQUENT FIRST QUARTER FORM 10-Q
> > ... cut ...
>
> Regardless of the incorporation status of SCO at the time, if SCO
> manages to make it to a Jury Trial in Utah, I see them winning against
> IBM on several terms from the original March 2003 filing.
>
> Sometimes I don't know which company scares me worse, SCO or IBM? I
> used to think SCO, but given the fact that most people are oblivious to
> what IBM did to Caldera-SCO, and what IBM is doing to some of its own
> customers and other OEMs like HP, IBM might be worse. There is no
> bigger target for IBM's AIX/Power platform right now than Linux/x86-64,
> especially from very pro-community OEM players like HP.
>
> This doesn't excuse what SCO has done May 2003 and later, but IBM
> clearly took a Linux company and expensed it's future. They whole
> reason Caldera bought SCO was to use Monterey/IA-64 as a high-end
> capital base for "tiding over" its financials until its Linux business
> became profitable -- a strategy IBM obliterated in one day back in 2001.
Ach! You make statements like this, as though everyone knows what you're
talking about. And how do you know what Caldera's strategy was? I've
never heard this one. Nor have I heard how IBM dashed it in a day.
Paul
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