[Cialug] SCO's not dead yet

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

That depends. Could you buy SCO for less than what a migration would
cost? If I was an old school corporate guy, its unlikely that I'd be
thinking about buying SCO and open sourcing their stuff so that I
(McDonalds) would benefit.

If they opened up SCO's stuff would the open source community improve
it? Would it benefit McDonalds? How long would it take? 

If you did buy them, as a failing company, you'd probably consider it a
stop-gap measure to buy you some time before you did the migration
anyway.

I just can't believe that McDonalds corporate would take that kind of
chance, but who knows?  I just can't see quarter pounders made from
penguin meat as a profitable undertaking.




On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:35 -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
> I'd argue that point.  I'm pretty sure that a company as big as McD would benefit from just buying the remaining bits of software that SCO actually owns that runs their environment rather then migrating.  There's a reason that Sun purchased star office (and then began open sourcing) rather than deploy windows office .  However, a fantastic kicking would be delivered if McD (or another company) bought what was left and open sourced whatever code they could find that was worth anything.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:01 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
> 
> Why would you buy them? It would be cheaper for McDonalds to switch to Windows then buy SCO. Why continue the fight? They've obviously been beaten -there's no "revenue" to be gained.
> 
> :)  Dave
> 
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:46 +0000, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > I would be concerned about a SCO-friendly company with deep pockets
> > buying them and continuing the fight.  You have to wonder how many
> > people are left at the company and what the SCO-faithful still look
> > like.  Article Says McDonald's is a client.  Why don't they buy them?
> >
> > -Nate
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan C. Bailey [mailto:jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us]
> > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:30 PM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
> >
> > I just read that and thought of Monty Python...
> >
> > "Bring out yer dead!"
> >
> >
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Champion" <dchampion at visionary.com>
> > To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 8, 2007 1:21:59 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> > Subject: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
> >
> > Just FYI, SCO isn't dead yet...
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasi
> > c&arti
> > cleId=304668&source=NLT_OS&nlid=41
> >
> > Darl: "It's like the Linux faithful are lined up for the bad news.
> > They've got their confetti ready to throw, and everybody's all excited."
> >
> > Anyone know where I can get some good confetti?
> >
> > -dc
> >
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