sherwin-williams drops sco for turbolinux

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:34:28AM +0800, M.W.Chang wrote:
>interesting comment... :)
>
>"... Gillen said another reason for the switch to Linux could be the
>shrinking revenue of Caldera, which bought SCO Unix. "It doesn't give
>customers a strong sense of security," he said of Caldera's
>disappointing recent sales performance. "That said, we do expect
>[Caldera] to be around for a long time." 

I wouldn't bet my business on that.

When Caldera announced the SCO purchase, I had hoped that they would be
getting the technical people and assets, leaving the marketing and most of
the top management to count their stock options.  Unfortunately many of the
top people at SCO came along with the deal, the same ones who had been at
the helm as SCO went from a solid company and product into an also-ran.

Had I known that Caldera would be purchasing SCO at the time of the Caldera
IPO, I would have probably convinced my wife that we didn't have to take
advantage of the ``Friends & Family'' opportunity on the IPO (she was
pissed because I had not bought in on the Red Hat F&F offer).  I could have
bought and installed a very nice standby generator and rewired our server
room with the money we put into Caldera stock.

Bill
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