Re: [LUG] Just what are SCO doing?

[Mark McRitchie <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Paul Sutton wrote:

> To me there are now two main players out there
>
> Windows and Unix based systems (including apple osx),  If SCO want the
> better of the two to survive they are playing into the hands of a Rival
> (MS).  They can still have their Unix for high end use, Linux was written
> from scratch and Linus was very careful about how to go about doing things
> and still is.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030519/nym059_1.html


> I think we could be seeing the beginning of the end of SCO and they are just
> desparate to hold on,  people are fed up with paying 1000's for software and
> are starting to look elseware.

The theory has been bandied about the office that either Microsoft or IBM
will end up buying SCO. Anyone else think that?

Mark.


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