I totally disagree

I totally disagree

Posted Jul 24, 2003 20:27 UTC (Thu) by heunique (guest, #728)
Parent article: SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

For IBM it's not just the community who's in stake - it's their sales. A sale of Power4 based servers (including their Z900 beasts) is worth a lot of money (mainframe costs millions, add to it the support contracts - and you'll see why IBM invests so much in Linux)..

I'm pretty sure that if the SCO VS IBM trial will show signs that SCO might win, IBM WILL aquire SCO only to shut them up and kill the company. There's too much sales in danger if SCO will win, and IBM really wants to sale their servers as much as they can push (Power4 based servers are MUCH more profitable then X86 servers, no matter whats the configuration).

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