Tuesday, December 19, 2006
12/19 SNR II
- If it's really true that SCO's packing up and moving to Holladay, UT, as reported in the previous post -- and that's just an unconfirmed rumor at this point -- there's a really fun "coincidence" here: Holladay is also home to EdgeLink Solutions, a SCO partner and employer of a certain Andrea McBride (a.k.a. Mrs. Darl).
- The EdgeLink address, along with Gary J. Cooper (EdgeLink's COO) also show up in a pair of Excel docs from the state government. Seems that when he's not burning the midnight oil on EdgeLink's behalf, the ultra-versatile Mr. Cooper is a state-licensed mortgage lender with "Utah Capital Mortgage". The docs list him as "principal lending manager" at that company. Perhaps not coincidentally, Utah Capital Mortgage is the "client" for the EdgeLink/Me Inc. spam that showed up on a SuSE mailing list back in March. None of this is actually new info, but I thought I'd pass it along for context in case SCO surfaces at that address or one nearby.
- The building EdgeLink operates out of, at 6465 S 3000 E, Salt Lake City, is also home to Century Software, a maker of terminal-emulation and thin-client software. SCO's site says they (by which they mostly mean OldSCO) have been partners with Century for 18 years, and that statement was dated 2004.
- Despite the thin-client thing, I haven't seen an obvious Negris-Century connection. Although by an odd coincidence, the words "Negris" and "Haerr" (Century's CEO) both appear in what is allegedly the world's longest palindrome. I swear I am not making this up.
- For standards geeks out there, say hi to Unix 03, the latest & greatest standards document from the Open Group (the owners of the "Unix" trademark). SCO can claim they own Unix all they want, but in the past they've had a great deal of trouble getting their products certified, so don't expect a press release about it any time soon. The article doesn't even mention SCO anywhere. In addition to Sun, IBM, and HP, the word is that the next Mac OS X release (10.5) will be Official Unix too, the first BSD variant to be certified that way. Of course, any Unix greybeard will tell you that nothing past 7th Edition is the real deal, so this item is offered on a "FWIW;YMMV" basis.
- Another fun Vista item: MS has released a draft of the new API that lets you (or your antivirus vendor) bypass Vista's fancy (and controversial) new PatchGuard feature. And people wonder why OS kernels tend to bloat up over time. Well, it's always the path of least resistance, that's why.
- A piece from IBM's DeveloperWorks on why JavaScript doesn't suck. Ok, so maybe it doesn't totally suck, but I'm not ready to change specialties just yet.
- Another fun Vista item: MS has released a draft of the new API that lets you (or your antivirus vendor) bypass Vista's fancy (and controversial) new PatchGuard feature. And people wonder why OS kernels tend to bloat up over time. Well, it's always the path of least resistance, that's why.
- Tip of le chapeau to bill_beebe for a pair of Zune items:
- Your shiny new Zune will talk to your shiny new Vista PC after all, thanks to a patch MS is rushing to market. No cause for alarm here, of course. Rush jobs in Redmond always turn out really super-duper well.
- The Zune is also the subject of a typically ham-fisted MS astroturfing campaign. I've always wondered, what do astroturfers call what they do? It's not quite "viral marketing", that cherished phrase the dorks in your company's marketing department are always using. Extending the analogy to the breaking point, if "viral marketing" is when people praise your product and tell world+dog out of their own free will, inflicting your product on the world with a fake "viral" campaign is sort of like using bioweapons. So really, if you buy a Zune, the terrorists win. Well, they might, and you can't be 100% sure they won't, so why risk it?
- Your shiny new Zune will talk to your shiny new Vista PC after all, thanks to a patch MS is rushing to market. No cause for alarm here, of course. Rush jobs in Redmond always turn out really super-duper well.
- And to round things out, a picture of Darl from those carefree days back in April '05, happily golfing away like a good little CEO.
By brx0 @ 11:06 PM 
