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SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica)
ars technica looks at the latest in the never-ending SCO saga. The company is proposing a way to soldier on by selling its "assets" to keep up the court fights. "In the latest reorganization filing, the company proposes an asset sale that would see its server platform and mobile technology sold off to the highest bidder. After the reorganization, SCO contends that its business would be based on its licensing program, commercial UNIX sales, and one-off custom UNIX enhancement projects for customers. The plan also indicates that SCO will reduce its operating expenses by 20 to 30 percent in 2009."
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SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica) Posted Jan 13, 2009 5:56 UTC (Tue) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link]
SCO's management seems determined to go down with the ship. Yet, I can't shake the feeling that this is a ploy designed to hide assets so that fees do not have to be paid to Novell and other creditors.
for small values of "down" Posted Jan 13, 2009 6:28 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] If $1 million in annual salary for the four top executives is "going down with the ship," well shiver me timbers, where do I stow me sea chest, cap'n?McBride doesn't really seem to have the skills to make it at a real company, but I'm sure he won't miss a day of work after SCO goes down. Some other board of directors with a dusty file cabinet full of dubious claims will hire him.
SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica) Posted Jan 13, 2009 13:33 UTC (Tue) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link]
SCO are the Black Knight (Monty Python) of the Linux world. No matter how much they are dismembered they still fight on uttering strong words of defiant futility.
SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica) Posted Jan 13, 2009 14:43 UTC (Tue) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
Come over here and I'll bite you!
SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica) Posted Jan 13, 2009 16:57 UTC (Tue) by n1ho (guest, #55855) [Link]
Garage sale?
More like a carport made out of aluminum tubing and blue plastic tarpaulins, after being struck by a hurricane...
Who might buy OpenServer? Posted Jan 13, 2009 14:42 UTC (Tue) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]
Anyone wanna take a crack at who might be a candidate for SCO's OpenServer business?
Who might buy OpenServer? Posted Jan 13, 2009 15:17 UTC (Tue) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]
Try MicroSquisH for one bet they would love to find another way to target Linux
Who might buy OpenServer? Posted Jan 13, 2009 15:39 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Why would they want it? They *sold* their Unix OS to SCO, long ago, and don't want anything to do with it anymore. (Neither does anyone else: it's awful by modern standards.)
I can't imagine anyone wanting this at other than fire-sale prices, but I suppose that's what this is.
Who might buy OpenServer? Posted Jan 13, 2009 16:51 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
There would be a certain poetic justice in it being IBM, as long as the price was well below that of dirt. Darl and the SCO Group started all this to get bought out by IBM in the first place. But it would be nice if the deal required Darl and the rest of the current "management" to be summarily terminated without receiving another penny, including the $1 million that they are going after now. At this point, it is all the undeserved personal gain which the ring-leaders have successfully rung out of this saga that bothers me the most.
Who might buy OpenServer? Posted Jan 14, 2009 9:11 UTC (Wed) by niall.noigiallach (guest, #47469) [Link]
Sun might buy it but instead of maintaining it produce a "Branded Zone" for OpenServer/Unixware and encourage migration over to Solaris. Given that OpenServer is currently using the Unixware kernel it probably would be easier to produce an "Openserver Brandz" then it was to produce the "Linux Brandz"
SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica) Posted Jan 13, 2009 17:08 UTC (Tue) by sandholm (guest, #48477) [Link]
Hmm, selloff.
Isn't that kinda like chopping up your home for wood in the stove?
no, SCO is trying to pull a fast one here Posted Jan 13, 2009 17:39 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
right now they are vunerable becouse they actually have a business (not much of one, but they have one)
if they pull off this trick, they move all the income off to another company and the only thing remaining under the SCO name is the lawsuit. if they loose (and the very strong counterclaims against them win) there is nothing for IBM and others to get from them. if they win the result is pure profit.
I hope the court doesn't let them get away with this.
SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica) Posted Jan 13, 2009 17:46 UTC (Tue) by ronin_engineer (guest, #52737) [Link]
As my mother said in the past: "Good riddance to bad rubbish".
It couldn't happen to a more deserving company. They're like that token powerful manager in any company that walks around and stirs up excrement and walks away. Hopefully, the judge will see through their futile efforts to hide their money and to stripmine the marrow out of the bones of that company.
Hmmm... Posted Jan 14, 2009 7:04 UTC (Wed) by ctg (subscriber, #3459) [Link]
So they want to be a patent troll.. but with no patents?
They are a comedy evil genius. The directors must have spent too long watching old James Bond films - but for some reason, think that the villains are the ones to admire and emulate. Perhaps they got sent to bed before the films finished. I'm sure Darl must have a white cat to stroke.
Hmmm... Posted Jan 15, 2009 19:42 UTC (Thu) by jimbo (subscriber, #6689) [Link] Perhaps the SCO Directors have been watching too many James Bond movies, but the whole saga reminds me more of an Austin Powers movie.-- J
SCO aims to reorganize, fight on with corporate garage sale (ars technica) Posted Jan 15, 2009 8:22 UTC (Thu) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link]
yeah SCO should fight.... I'll tell
them how to fight : 1. make sure the SCO 5.0.x editions can run on the newest hardware. HP/Compaq guaranteed itself substantial Proliant sales with its EFS support/driver package. There no more golden game inside the IT industry as to get your olden golden software application run (unchanged) on the latest hardware. 2. Make sure that popular latest editions of GNU/Linux software , i.e. samba3 as AD server, are available on SCO 5.0.x, interfacing these SCO servers again with the latest Windows Server 200x editions. Why increase support on SCO5? Well SCO 6 is a sick joke in my eyes, as our SCO 5.0.x software failed to run properly on SCO 6.0. Yes, certain software development companies refuse to operate on Linux, to this very day. Don't ask me why though.. Robert
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