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The New SCO: Lessons for Linux in Business (Linux Journal)
Doc Searls shares his
thoughts on the newly named SCO Group.. "The message: SCO is older
than Linux by a long shot (the company was founded in 1979), and UNIX is
senior to both. UNIX businesses have been around for eras in Linux and
Internet prehistory. Some of those businesses involve extremely deep and
abiding relationships between vendors and customers. The dependencies are
often extreme to the degree that the customers can't live without them. SCO
had a bunch of those relationships, long before Linux came along, and many
of those relationships are still alive and well. In fact, they're saving
the former "Linux company's" butt. What's more, those relationships give
SCO a big advantage over Red Hat, SuSE and other Linux companies that still
have nothing comparable to offer SCO's traditional kinds of customers--for
now."
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