Tuesday, October 17, 2006
10/18 SNR
As you might've noticed, there's a new category in the links sidebar called "Pro-SCO" (it seemed only fair), although so far I'm having a bit of trouble populating it. I've got SCO's new "Unix Blog", which (in a typical bit of SCO cluelessness) appears to be a discussion forum, not a blog. I've also got iXorg, a SCO resellers group. The news section on iXorg's main page has a definite pro-SCO slant, although it hasn't been updated since last June. So if you know of any other links that might belong here (or elsewhere in the link bar) either drop me a line or just post it here.
I did run across a number of interesting tidbits while searching for pro-SCO websites, user/reseller/integrator/vendor groups, and so forth...
Elsewhere:
I did run across a number of interesting tidbits while searching for pro-SCO websites, user/reseller/integrator/vendor groups, and so forth...
- A piece that mentions SCO as a poster-child company that's had great success attracting resellers, with its strategy of crisscrossing the country and holding lots of "Get Connected with SCO" seminars. The article dates from 1994.
- This UnixWare FAQ from 1998 mentions the existence of a "SCO Users Group" or "SCOUG", with a "xenitec.on.ca" domain name, and talks extensively about a freeware site called Freebird.org. Neither of these sites exists anymore.
- Also from 1998, OldSCO was pleased to announce the formation of the first SCO user group in Singapore, known as the "SCO Unix Professionals Group", or "UXPG" for short. If you google for the group name, the announcement is the one and only mention of the group on the entire net. Well, until now, anyway.
- I saw a few mentions of something called the "Unixware Technology Group", a UnixWare vendors' association. But it seems this organization no longer exists either. There's an obit for UTG and related organizations. Seems OldSCO morphed UTG into an internally run org called the "Unix Computing Forum", for which very little info exists on the net, but their PR about the change can be found here. After that, the org seems to have vanished without a trace.
Elsewhere:
- Rudy, er, "Paul Murphy", is smoking crack again. His latest goofy scheme proposes that IBM should settle up and pay SCO a few gazillion, and then turn around and buy both Red Hat and Novell, which is what it's going to take to make Linux "free again", so he says. I wonder what color the sky is in his world?
- His piece about programming languages is not so utterly bozotic. What puzzles me is how veryone says VB is a serious, popular language, but I've never actually met anyone who did it for a living. At least not that they were willing to admit.
- Fresh details on what IBM's new Power6 chips are going to look like. I'm not so sure about that hardware binary coded decimal support they're going on about, but it ought to keep the Cobol grinders happy.
- An interview with one of Intel's Itanium architects, over at HPCWire. SCO could've gotten in on the party, they could've had one of the OSes on the list in the article, they had multiple chances to get in on the ground floor. But they botched it, and now all they've got left is the path of litigation.
- And an article about Intel's Itanium strategy. Hint: Giving SCO yet another chance to build the chip's default OS is not part of the strategy.
- A piece about the possibly-schweet MINIX 3 OS from none other than Andy Tanenbaum himself.
- We're nearing the 3rd anniversary of Darl's interview where he claimed SCO was suffering a billion dollars per week in damages [note: article is en francais], all because of IBM & Linux. So that makes a cool $156B, if we're going by that date. But it's probably more "accurate" to go by the date the IBM case was filed, that tacks on another $30B or so. By the time the thing goes to trial, which right now is supposed to be in late February 2007, the damages are surely going to top the $200B mark. Which is really pretty damn remarkable, considering how small SCO is. That's over a billion dollars in damages per employee, although somehow I doubt any winnings in the IBM case would be divided up evenly like that. Compare this figure to the estimated $80B-$200B cost of Hurricane Katrina. Which really helps to point out the truly astonishing amount of damage SCO's apparently suffering at the hands of the Linux rabble. Even more astonishing is that SCO is still in business after that horrific level of damage. Perhaps Darl is a vastly better businessman than we all thought.
By brx0 @ 11:51 PM 
