Buying SCO
Buying SCO
Posted Jun 12, 2003 21:13 UTC (Thu) by emkey (guest, #144)In reply to: Buying SCO by corbet
Parent article: Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)
I agree its a risk, and back in the 80's I never would have believed I'd give serious consideration to supporting IBM in anything. Times change though and the stakes here are high enough that I find myself willing to believe that the last few years are indicative of a real change at IBM. It is interesting to consider the ramifications of such a move from the point of view of other companies trying. Frankly I suspect it happens all the time and we just don't notice since it isn't happening in our area(s) of interest.
To the best of my knowledge nobody in the press has looked at the buyout option which is interesting. Given the relative sizes of the two companies it just seemed like an obvious possible outcome.
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