SCO Releases 3Q Results (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw covers the SCO third quarter financial results press release. "The second paragraph says it all: "Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2005 was $9,353,000 as compared to $11,205,000 for the comparable quarter of the prior year. The decrease in revenue in the third quarter of fiscal year 2005 from the comparable quarter of the prior year was primarily due to continued competitive pressures on the Company's UNIX products and services and a decrease in SCOsource licensing revenue." Oh, and this section of the forward-looking statements disclaimer: "We wish to advise readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, continued competitive pressure on its operating system products which could impact the profitability of the UNIX business, unforeseen legal costs related to our litigation, our inability to develop new products and services, and our inability to see our litigation through to its conclusion.""

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SCO Releases 3Q Results (Groklaw)

Posted Sep 8, 2005 18:23 UTC (Thu) by jarek (guest, #4105) [Link]

"competitive pressures", funny way of describing the state of a company that has firmly positioned its feet on its own shoelaces.

/jarek

SCO Releases 3Q Results(Groklaw)

Posted Sep 9, 2005 13:26 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

As others have pointed out from time to time, SCO products still form the
basic OS under many retail and food service POS (point of sale) computing
applications, either at the register directly, or, perhaps more commonly,
at a "back end" server, one per store, centralizing (per-store) the daily
sales and inventory tracking (keeping in mind the server and terminal type
applications we know AutoZone used before they switched out the SCO stuff
or Linux, for instance). I haven't any idea if MacDonald's specifically
uses (or used) them, but some of "the MacDonalds' of the world" in the
general sense still do. With the economic rebound of late, some of these
chains are expanding, and I'd guess if they are standardized on (un)Open
Server or whatever, they'd be needing new licenses for their new
operations... Those wouldn't be free (in /either/ sense of the term).

Duncan

SCO Releases 3Q Results(Groklaw)

Posted Sep 12, 2005 23:59 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Yes, McDonalds is a SCOX customer.

It has been kind of funny to hear McBride rattle off the same customer list in every conference call, though.

AFAIK OpenServer is also still licensed per user, so customers that want to add users have to buy license packs.