----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Hobson" <simonsnews@thehobsons.codotuk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@jpr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Fallout from the SCO suits


> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:50:12 +0100, Tony Lawrence wrote
> (in message <cegbj4$59a@odbk17.prod.google.com>):
>
> >> It's obvious that anyone still running their business on an SCO
> >> platform is either a cretin or completely uninterested in that side
> > of
> >> their business - and probably doomed to spend a lot of money
> > switching
> >> over before long.
>
> > In fact, many of my SCO customers have
> > switched to Linux. I expect that over the next few years more will.
> > Unfortunately, some will switch to Microsoft.
> >
> > I'm thinking of one SCO customer in particular just now. Their app
> > doesn't run on Linux, but their are Microsoft and SCO versons. They
> > strongly dislike Microsoft. If they had their druthers, they'd run it
> > all on Macs, but the choice is Microsoft or SCO. They choose SCO. You
> > see that as evil, I see it as smart.
>
> FWIW, that very much descibes my situation at work ! The main business app
> run on OpenServer, when we last had the opportunity to 'upgrade' it was a
> choice of SCO, MS, or IBM (AIX). AIX was out of the question on cost
grounds,
> and I persuaded them that MS would not be a good move, so we stuck with
SCO.
>
> We will still be on SCO for at least the next couple of years, for the
simple
> reason that you don't just decide "I'm going to change the main system" on
a
> whim - not when there's over 100 users supporting 300 employees, and a
£30m
> business across several countries ! We are already looking at the 'next
step'
> and preliminary indications are that the bill for an upgrade will be at
least
> £250,000. A switch to a different product will be very much more ! In
either
> case, there will be man months of internal effort involved in the
> upgrade/switch.
>
> So, we are very much "still running our business on an SCO platform". But
we
> are most certainly not "either a cretin or completely uninterested in that
> side of our business".
>
> BTW, SCO does NOT get a single penny from us for our continued use of the
OS,
> and I would be loath to pay them anything.
>
> Simon
>
> PS - The lawsuit may be visibly without supporting evidence etc, but since
> when has that been any guarantee of a particular verdict in a court -
> especially a US court ?
>

I'm in the same position you are in, except I'm a small business person. My
main application runs on SCO and it's a very good one that is updated
annually, the option is there to move to Windows platform at any time with
the same company. They would convert my current database for me if or when
I decide to move to Windows. But my SCO system runs like a top, I can
access it easily from the web or dialup when I'm not at the office. I'm
sorry that SCO is in it's current position, but my continued use also has
nothing to do with being a cretin either!!

Terry