OT: SCO Forum

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006, D. Thomas Podnar wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:26:11PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
...
>> 
>> I wonder if the vendors will outnumber the attendees this year.
>> 
>> Bill
>
>I suspect they won't, as always, else I wouldn't be spending the money.
>But hey, never pass up a chance for a cheap shot, right ;-)

There's nothing cheap about my losses on the Caldera/SCO IPO :-).

Obviously you think that spending the time and resources to attend it is
worth it for Microlite's business.  Certainly you see a much wider picture
of existing SCO users than I do.

I have a hard time understanding why developers would develop new products
for SCO systems, given SCO's past history, destroying their network of
Advanced Education Centers and Authorized Resellers, suing their own
customers, and seemingly adopting a litigatation vs innovation strategy.

I find I can provide systems running on Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X far more
easily than I can on SCO.  If SCO systems provided significant advantages
in reliability or performance, it might be worth the extra effort to use
them, but I certainly haven't seen any reasons to do so for the last 8
years or so.

The number of SCO customers we support is asymptotically approaching zero.
I'm in the midst of converting our last customer running Encore/IMPACT MRP
software from OpenServer to Linux which will leave a couple of companies
that we occassionally help, and one where the business will be shut down
when the owner retires (he's 81 now), and has no desire to spend money to
upgrade.

Bill
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