Saturday, November 18, 2006
11/20 SNR
- Wonder of wonders, today we got some actual product-related PR from SCO. Seems that a minor update to SCOoffice Server is out. O frabjous day!
If it sounds like your cup of tea, it looks like you can buy online from SCO's friends at Terian. As is typical with SCO products, it's all about per-user licensing, and it gets expensive pretty quick once you get past the base level. I wonder if they've ever sold any 1000-seat license packs?
It's actually a bit confusing trying to figure out what got released. The PR, and the one bit of media coverage I've seen suggest that this is the initial release of SCOoffice Server 4.2. But if you search around, the picture gets more confusing. This InfoWorld article asserts that v4.2 came out in August '04, while this PowerPoint presentation from SCOForum '05 suggested 4.2 would be out in Q4 '05. (There's also a roadmap for v4.3, in case the company lasts that long.) SCO's release notes for the thing were posted in late October. It's all so confusing. - Blankenhorn on Microsoft's venture into patent trolldom.
- A similar bit at Neoseeker.
- Marc Fleury of JBoss has some choice words about MS and Oracle. Seems nobody can mention these guys without also mentioning SCO. Birds of a feather, I guess. Toward the end of the piece, Fleury refers to SCO as a "frail hack". Nice.
- A piece speculating whether MS is itself infringing anyone's precious IP. Well, duh, of course. Nice vintage screenshots from the Xerox Alto & Apple Lisa, though. Once again, SCO gets a mention a bit down the page.
- And a suggestion that the MS-Novell deal won't be a long term plus for Novell's stock.
- More wonder of wonders: BS&F wins a case, a disagreement over the 1996 sale of the Fresh DelMonte produce company. Here's a fun bit from the article:
"For four years, the plaintiffs have been trying this case in the press," said Carlos M. Sires, the Fresh Del Monte attorney from the Boies Schiller & Flexner firm in Fort Lauderdale.
"But Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh and Fresh Del Monte know that lawsuits are tried and won in the courtroom," said Sires. "They are gratified that it took the jury a very short time to conclude what they have always known, that this case was completely without merit."
It's official. Irony is dead. Film at 11. - In the rare moment when he's not burning the midnight oil on SCO's behalf, Boies occasionally takes time out to hobnob with New York high society. Henry Kissinger was there, and the Saudi ambassador. Oh, and Jimbo Wales (of Wikipedia fame) was there, too. Hmm. Go figure.
- Salty has a nice chat with Rant-for-Rent Rob.
- Linux: king of the hill in supercomputing.
- Time Magazine compares the XBox 360 and PS3, not as game consoles, but as HD movie players. For those keeping score, the 360 is HD-DVD, and the PS3 is Blu-Ray. In the article, we learn that if you plug a Zune into a USB port on the PS3.... nothing happens. Also:
The craziest thing is that Sony has permitted geeks to load additional operating systems onto the PS3, including Linux. With all that processing power, it's a generous offer, although probably not one that many people will take up.
Craziest? Why? It wasn't widely publicized, but there's a semi-official Linux for the PS2 as well. So nothing new here. - An astute reader on the boards posted some additional info on J. Kent's "college".
- Also from the boards, a photo of Steve Ballmer at a black-tie dinner in Utah. I love that deer-caught-in-the-headlights expression on his face. I think I'll call it the Blank Stare Of Death.
- More about Birmingham's botched Linux project.
- An eWeek article on security vulnerabilities in MacOSX.
- Speaking of Macs, here's yet another sign of the apocalypse. I can't find any mention of anyone actually trying this on their shiny new Intel Mac hardware, but MacMall will be happy to sell you OpenServer licenses if you want 'em. Gaaaahhhh!!!!
- A review of SoftMaker Office 2006, the commercial office suite I mentioned in a previous post which supports Linux & FreeBSD(!). Oh, and Windows, and PocketPC too.
- If you're following a certain E. coli case out of Lindon, seems the lawyer on the case has a blog, and has posted about the case here.
- SCO claims they own C++, which is crazy, but here's a language I wouldn't mind letting them have as their very own.
- It's never too early to start making plans for SCOForum 2007, which is held in Vegas every year in August or September, whenever it's cheapest. Besides the usual element of morbid curiosity, by that time it may be possible to witness the first, uh, "fruits" of a recent FDA decision to improve the local scenery in Las Vegas. Esker's going, why aren't you?
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Also from the boards, a photo of Steve Ballmer at a black-tie dinner in Utah. I love that deer-caught-in-the-headlights expression on his face.
He's definitely "Puttin' on the Ritz".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGN2aa3oQRM
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He's definitely "Puttin' on the Ritz".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGN2aa3oQRM
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