Thursday, September 28, 2006
SNR for 9/28
A couple of items courtesy one of this blog's many keen-eyed readers:
And a few more media accounts about the 9/25 PSJcalypse:
Overall, the media's portraying this as IBM trying to finally drive a stake through SCO's shrivelled little evil heart. SCO filed a big pile of PSJ motions too, but they aren't getting so much attention. Everyone knows they're frivolous, and even the media isn't that gullible, at least sometimes.
Other:
- USA today gets misty eyed about some conference, with nostalgic
quotes from SCO BOD member Ed Iacobucci. - Michael Anderer (one of SCO's "MIT rocket scientists") has updated his resume to note he's no longer a
director of Realm or Forum.
And a few more media accounts about the 9/25 PSJcalypse:
- IT Jungle
- TechNewsWorld. This story quotes someone named Phil Albert, described as a "software legal expert", who says people are surprised this thing is still going on, and says "I don't think anyone's paying any attention to it anymore." Ahem. Excuse me.
- CBR
- Daily Tech
Overall, the media's portraying this as IBM trying to finally drive a stake through SCO's shrivelled little evil heart. SCO filed a big pile of PSJ motions too, but they aren't getting so much attention. Everyone knows they're frivolous, and even the media isn't that gullible, at least sometimes.
Other:
- Here's a good piece from a few weeks ago about the impending demise of SGI's IRIX operating system. SCO's wares merit a mention at the bottom of the page, as another couple of slowly dying commercial Unixes.
- On a sadder note, the end of the line's coming soon for HP's AlphaServer line, and Tru64 along with it. I really liked Tru64, it was one of my top 2 or 3 favorite *Nixes, and I'm sad to see it go.
- And for those of you running on Itanium, there's now a way to run your Solaris SPARC apps via emulation. Transitive Corp. is the same company behind the PowerPC emulation layer in x86 MacOSX, so this may be a fairly schweet piece of software. You have to wonder what the world would be like now if SCO and Transitive had made friends back when SCO was working on Project Monterey.
By brx0 @ 11:54 PM 
