OT: SCO Forum

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>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Bill Campbell shouted:
> 
> There's nothing cheap about my losses on the Caldera/SCO IPO :-).

Shoulda gone for the RH IPO.  As I recall though, you hate RH.  :)
Invitation was based on whether you'd submitted a bug to their bugzilla.

> 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'm shrinnnnnkinnnnnnggggggg!"

> 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.

"But it's easier to use than Linux."  I actually had someone tell me that
the other day.  Sure it was.  Until they wanted the latest (ie., latest
-developer- version, not SCO-released version) apache, PHP, etc., ad
nauseum.  Then it costs them.  And actually it's not easier, as they still
"need" (their word, not mine) Webmin to administer sendmail--what they can
admin of it.

> 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.

If SCO wasn't a complete nightmare to port to, it might have advantages.
They must have -really- had to bastardize perl to get it working on OSR5.
I tried that compile (which I've done many times on 3 other platforms,
including Solaris, with zero hitches) and the first time it wouldn't
compile.  The second time I finally convinced it to compile but it failed
84%+ of its own tests.  I gave up.  And you can't use most XS modules with
SCO's version.  They fail to load the blib files.  I -think- it's because
they compile with their own compiler, while the modules are compiled using
gcc (a vastly outdated gcc, I might add--and one that's buggy).  Their
devkit isn't even worth getting, as it's not ANSI, and so many things these
days require ANSI C that it's just...well, pointless.

If -all- you're doing is running a canned app or five and a few shell
scripts, it might be okay.  I wouldn't use it for anything I actually
needed to get something non-canned done on though.  It's horribly
time/cost-inefficient when trying to use OSS software.

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