[mdlug] SCO is baack.....

[Aaron Kulkis]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>> I, for one, came here right after reading slashdot and was a little
>> bummed there wasn't a bunch of chatter over this milestone for SCO.
> 
> I apologize if I killed this thread and getting side tracked.
> Let me try to put it back on subject.
> 
> Who in their right mind would invest in SCO?
> Especially ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS???
> 
> I admit not being current with SCO's business.  Do they have any
> products other than SCO Unix?  If that's all they have, then I can't
> imagine how they could make money.
> 
> AFAIK, SCO Unix hasn't been updated in years (decades?), and nobody in
> their right mind would buy it now.  Even "back in it's day" it sucked
> (IMO) - I've seen it.  The only nitch it had was the ability to run on
> PC hardware (it was cheaper), but compared to other [non PC] Unix
> vendors of the day, it sucked!  There are certainly much better, and
> cheaper, options for running *nix on PC hardware these days!
> 
> Do they have any source of income, other than legacy Unix
> implementations still paying maintenance?  That has to be shrinking.
> 
> Before he retired recently, a friend of mine was a SCO Unix admin at a
> branch of the US military.  Places like that are not fast to change,
> but eventually SCO Unix has to become extinct, doesn't it?

The US military is moving to OS X and Linux servers to
replace the current windows servers.