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Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch)
Linux-Watch looks at five
Linux companies that aren't around anymore. "A recent story
entitled, "Dearly Departed: Companies and Products That Didn't Deserve to
Die" didn't cover Linux or open-source companies. That got me to
thinking. So here, without further adieu, is my list of five Linux
companies that died before their time."
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The article's title is slightly misleading Posted Jul 27, 2007 22:55 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] "Linux companies that didn't deserve to die" is perhaps a little kind; Whilst I agree that Progeny, Cobalt, and Caldera (pre-SCO) were unfortunate victims of circumstance, Linuxcare most certainly deserved to die simply because its ridiculously shoddy management. As for SCO, well I could care less about them at this point...
The article's title is slightly misleading Posted Jul 28, 2007 17:13 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link] """As for SCO, well I could care less about them at this point... """
I think you mean "couldn't care less". :-)
At any rate, it really is a shame that things went the way they did with OpenServer, UnixWare, and Caldera. If Ransom Love and his gang had joined forces with Old SCO to push enterprise Linux, which is not that hard to imagine, considering how things have worked out with SGI and Sun, they really could have been a great ally today.
Don't confuse Darl and SCO Group with what came before.
What a waste The Canopy Group's strategy turned out to be for most everyone involved.
SCO vs SCO Posted Aug 4, 2007 21:05 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] As for SCO, well I [couldn't] care less about them at this point...Don't confuse Darl and SCO Group with what came before. To put it a little plainer: the company you couldn't care less about is not the one that the article says didn't deserve to die. Two companies with the same (root) name and some past business dealings.
Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) Posted Jul 27, 2007 23:08 UTC (Fri) by pheldens (guest, #19366) [Link] LOKI the linux games company.
Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) Posted Aug 3, 2007 23:24 UTC (Fri) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link] Oh, they very much deserved to die.
Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) Posted Jul 27, 2007 23:35 UTC (Fri) by csawtell (subscriber, #986) [Link] Cygnus Soulutions, andThe Yggdrasil Distribution.
As I understand it, the first was swallowed up by RedHat,
Red Hat saved Cygnus Posted Jul 28, 2007 6:43 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] In the period before the Red Hat acquisition of Cygnus, Cygnus was going in an increasingly proprietary direction, with some friction between their proprietary-thinking marketing people and their developers, who grew up hacking the GNU tools. They wanted an IPO and thought they had to have cool "intellectual property" for the investors to buy. Red Hat saved them from that, moving them much more strongly in a free software direction.Speaking as someone who was a Cygnus customer back in the 1990s, I'm happy about the way that turned out. They did deemphasize the embedded systems business, which is too bad; there was perhaps a synergy there that Red Hat didn't exploit that allowed other companies like MontaVista to take over the embedded Linux space. But many of the people who hacked the GNU tool chain as Cygnus employees still hack the GNU tool chain as Red Hat employees.
Red Hat saved Cygnus Posted Jul 28, 2007 14:48 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] They did deemphasize the embedded systems business, which is too bad; there was perhaps a synergy there that Red Hat didn't exploit that allowed other companies like MontaVista to take over the embedded Linux space. Embedded space wanted (and still want) closeable systems and that's not what RedHat wanted and wants. I think few years down the road there will be opportunity for the RedHat to reenter this space, but what they did after Cygnus acquisition was 100% correct.
Red Hat saved Cygnus Posted Jul 29, 2007 0:14 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Curiously enough, at the time of the acquisition it was the ambition to control "the embedded space", projected as a $500M market, that drove both Cygnus and Red Hat. It was only after the event that RH and the rest of the industry discovered that their ambitions were overblown.
Red Hat saved Cygnus Posted Aug 3, 2007 15:51 UTC (Fri) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526) [Link] Well, I don't know what all the thinking was (either in terms of the managers who came from Red Hat or those who came from Cygnus), but even before the acquisition there was awareness that the embedded market is a challenging one (chiefly because it is really many markets, and you can't sell one product/service across the whole "embedded market").
Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) Posted Aug 10, 2007 18:01 UTC (Fri) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link] On Yggdrasil:A liveCD distribution in 1995 which, by and large 'just worked'.I used the "Fall'93" edition, and it worked well as far as I am concerned. Adam Richter still posted in 2007 with an @yggdrasil.com address, so it's not clear what the current status of Yggdrasil, the company is.
Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) Posted Jul 28, 2007 12:45 UTC (Sat) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link] That "without further adieu" is either a horrible pun or a horrible mistake. But mistakes are forgiveable.
Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) Posted Jul 28, 2007 23:55 UTC (Sat) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link] Actually, it's rather a good pun :-p
Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) Posted Jul 29, 2007 4:06 UTC (Sun) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link] If our behaviour is strict, we do not need puns!
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