Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work for
The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's been
in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
times"...

As I depart, intense work continues on the SCO OpenServer 6 "Legend"
project. It's going remarkably well given the immense complexity of the
task. No, I can't give you any more details than the press releases on
www.sco.com.

If I'm in your address book, enter my armory.com address. I understand
that the sco.com address will forward for a few weeks, then it will
start bouncing. belal@sco.com -> bela@armory.com (or belal or filbo).

I intend to continue monitoring the SCO newsgroups for as long as it
makes sense to do so. That depends partly on what I do next -- if I
fill my brain up with Mac OS/X or Linux or something else, the SCO
knowledge will rot a lot faster than if I keep working on SCO OSes.

During what I expect to be a long search for The Perfect Job, I will be
available to do short-term contract projects. You may have an idea of
my areas of expertise from reading these newsgroups. My own idea goes
something like this:

- troubleshooting weird system problems; debugging
- OpenServer kernel
- device drivers
- performance
- security

I don't believe in flashy glitz. I don't even have a real homepage. If
you need my services, you know it. I'm not here to sell you something
you didn't want in the first place.

For consulting/contract matters, contact me at bela_sco@armory.com.

I'm also listed on the aplawrence.com consultant search.

================================================== ===========================

"The Perfect Job"??

Ideally, I see myself as a troubleshooting spider in the middle of a
software maintenance organization. I have a web of connections with all
the development and maintenance engineers, support, QA, test, doc, etc.
people. I read source code, I watch code deltas, I look at incoming
support requests and bug reports, I monitor customer discussions on
mailing lists and newsgroups. I make connections. People come to me
with weird problems and I mysteriously already know the root cause,
because as soon as I hear the problem description, three other seemingly
unrelated things I had previously observed suddenly click into place. I
don't manage projects or people, I don't write code to spec. Sometimes
I spontaneously write code to solve some problem I've observed.

At SCO, I had business cards printed with the title "Technical
Catalyst". The web form to order cards wanted to know my title; it had
no preconceptions...

In the real world, the closest matches are probably for positions named
something like "Escalations Engineer".

If you're looking for me, or know of someone who is, let me know.

It's been fun,

>Bela<

On 18 Mar 2005 06:49:54 -0500, Bela Lubkin <filbo@armory.com> wrote:

>Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work for
>The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's been
>in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
>times"...
>
>As I depart, intense work continues on the SCO OpenServer 6 "Legend"
>project. It's going remarkably well given the immense complexity of the
>task. No, I can't give you any more details than the press releases on
>www.sco.com.
>
>If I'm in your address book, enter my armory.com address. I understand
>that the sco.com address will forward for a few weeks, then it will
>start bouncing. belal@sco.com -> bela@armory.com (or belal or filbo).
>
>I intend to continue monitoring the SCO newsgroups for as long as it
>makes sense to do so. That depends partly on what I do next -- if I
>fill my brain up with Mac OS/X or Linux or something else, the SCO
>knowledge will rot a lot faster than if I keep working on SCO OSes.
>
>During what I expect to be a long search for The Perfect Job, I will be
>available to do short-term contract projects. You may have an idea of
>my areas of expertise from reading these newsgroups. My own idea goes
>something like this:
>
> - troubleshooting weird system problems; debugging
> - OpenServer kernel
> - device drivers
> - performance
> - security
>
>I don't believe in flashy glitz. I don't even have a real homepage. If
>you need my services, you know it. I'm not here to sell you something
>you didn't want in the first place.
>
>For consulting/contract matters, contact me at bela_sco@armory.com.
>
>I'm also listed on the aplawrence.com consultant search.
>
>================================================= ============================
>
>"The Perfect Job"??
>
>Ideally, I see myself as a troubleshooting spider in the middle of a
>software maintenance organization. I have a web of connections with all
>the development and maintenance engineers, support, QA, test, doc, etc.
>people. I read source code, I watch code deltas, I look at incoming
>support requests and bug reports, I monitor customer discussions on
>mailing lists and newsgroups. I make connections. People come to me
>with weird problems and I mysteriously already know the root cause,
>because as soon as I hear the problem description, three other seemingly
>unrelated things I had previously observed suddenly click into place. I
>don't manage projects or people, I don't write code to spec. Sometimes
>I spontaneously write code to solve some problem I've observed.
>
>At SCO, I had business cards printed with the title "Technical
>Catalyst". The web form to order cards wanted to know my title; it had
>no preconceptions...
>
>In the real world, the closest matches are probably for positions named
>something like "Escalations Engineer".
>
>If you're looking for me, or know of someone who is, let me know.
>
>It's been fun,
>
>>Bela<


Wow!

Milestone event, end of an era.

I hope you find that perfect job, Bela. Good luck and thanks for all
you've done (and will continue to do at least for a little while) for
this group.

This is going to take a while to sink in.

DDinAZ

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.sco.misc.]

In <200503180349.aa22972@deepthought.armory.com> Bela Lubkin:

> Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work for
> The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's been
> in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
> times"...

You are escaping from rank bedlam, from my readings on Groklaw and the
SCOX[E] Yahoo! message board. Likely, yet another unfortunate casualty
of a management hellbent on some very dubious litigation while gutting
their legacy Unix business, and suing customers on any pretext.

It's very sad to me to see good people put on the street (whether they
"volunteered" or were fired) by totally greed-driven management.

I've experienced similar (though less dramatic) scenes in my time. For
my part I now see (in retrospect) I was lucky to be away from the sink
vortex when the ship actually went down.

Best wishes, and good luck in keeping productive and happy in whatever
you do, post-SCOX[E].

--
Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
Pardon any bogus email addresses (wookie) in place for spambots.
Really, it's (wyrd) at airmail, dotted with net. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Kids jumping ship? Looking to hire an old-school type? Email me.

Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work
for
> The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's
been
> in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
> times"...


Bela was the first and only person to ask me how many searches actually
happen at http://aplawrence.com/consultants.html

I had a slack jawed moment, and realized that I didn't know. I know we
get around 500 searches per day overall, but don't have a clue as to
how many of those were for consultants.

Well, I added that tracking and will make it available at the page..

Anyway, I wish Bela the best of luck and hope to feed him some business
now and then..

--
Tony Lawrence
http://aplawrence.com

Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work for
> The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's been
> in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
> times"...
>
> As I depart, intense work continues on the SCO OpenServer 6 "Legend"
> project. It's going remarkably well given the immense complexity of the
> task. No, I can't give you any more details than the press releases on
> www.sco.com.
>
> If I'm in your address book, enter my armory.com address. I understand
> that the sco.com address will forward for a few weeks, then it will
> start bouncing. belal@sco.com -> bela@armory.com (or belal or filbo).
>
> I intend to continue monitoring the SCO newsgroups for as long as it
> makes sense to do so. That depends partly on what I do next -- if I
> fill my brain up with Mac OS/X or Linux or something else, the SCO
> knowledge will rot a lot faster than if I keep working on SCO OSes.
>
> During what I expect to be a long search for The Perfect Job, I will be
> available to do short-term contract projects. You may have an idea of
> my areas of expertise from reading these newsgroups. My own idea goes
> something like this:
>
> - troubleshooting weird system problems; debugging
> - OpenServer kernel
> - device drivers
> - performance
> - security
>
> I don't believe in flashy glitz. I don't even have a real homepage. If
> you need my services, you know it. I'm not here to sell you something
> you didn't want in the first place.
>
> For consulting/contract matters, contact me at bela_sco@armory.com.
>
> I'm also listed on the aplawrence.com consultant search.
>
> ================================================== ===========================
>
> "The Perfect Job"??
>
> Ideally, I see myself as a troubleshooting spider in the middle of a
> software maintenance organization. I have a web of connections with all
> the development and maintenance engineers, support, QA, test, doc, etc.
> people. I read source code, I watch code deltas, I look at incoming
> support requests and bug reports, I monitor customer discussions on
> mailing lists and newsgroups. I make connections. People come to me
> with weird problems and I mysteriously already know the root cause,
> because as soon as I hear the problem description, three other seemingly
> unrelated things I had previously observed suddenly click into place. I
> don't manage projects or people, I don't write code to spec. Sometimes
> I spontaneously write code to solve some problem I've observed.
>
> At SCO, I had business cards printed with the title "Technical
> Catalyst". The web form to order cards wanted to know my title; it had
> no preconceptions...
>
> In the real world, the closest matches are probably for positions named
> something like "Escalations Engineer".
>
> If you're looking for me, or know of someone who is, let me know.
>
> It's been fun,
>
>
>>Bela<

Bela,

Your posts here have helped more than you can know. Best of luck.

Steve Lancour

Gosh ...

As far as I personally am concerned, this is a very significant
milestone in SCO's history.

Bela, thanks for all the help in the past. Many times I've found your
responses to other people are helpful to me also. I hope you can
continue to contribute here, but, either way, I wish you all the best.

Ian Wilson.
P.S. When does the book of memoirs come out :-)

Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work for
> The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's been
> in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
> times"...
>
> As I depart, intense work continues on the SCO OpenServer 6 "Legend"
> project. It's going remarkably well given the immense complexity of the
> task. No, I can't give you any more details than the press releases on
> www.sco.com.
>
> If I'm in your address book, enter my armory.com address. I understand
> that the sco.com address will forward for a few weeks, then it will
> start bouncing. belal@sco.com -> bela@armory.com (or belal or filbo).
>
> I intend to continue monitoring the SCO newsgroups for as long as it
> makes sense to do so. That depends partly on what I do next -- if I
> fill my brain up with Mac OS/X or Linux or something else, the SCO
> knowledge will rot a lot faster than if I keep working on SCO OSes.
>
> During what I expect to be a long search for The Perfect Job, I will be
> available to do short-term contract projects. You may have an idea of
> my areas of expertise from reading these newsgroups. My own idea goes
> something like this:
>
> - troubleshooting weird system problems; debugging
> - OpenServer kernel
> - device drivers
> - performance
> - security
>
> I don't believe in flashy glitz. I don't even have a real homepage. If
> you need my services, you know it. I'm not here to sell you something
> you didn't want in the first place.
>
> For consulting/contract matters, contact me at bela_sco@armory.com.
>
> I'm also listed on the aplawrence.com consultant search.
>
> ================================================== ===========================
>
> "The Perfect Job"??
>
> Ideally, I see myself as a troubleshooting spider in the middle of a
> software maintenance organization. I have a web of connections with all
> the development and maintenance engineers, support, QA, test, doc, etc.
> people. I read source code, I watch code deltas, I look at incoming
> support requests and bug reports, I monitor customer discussions on
> mailing lists and newsgroups. I make connections. People come to me
> with weird problems and I mysteriously already know the root cause,
> because as soon as I hear the problem description, three other seemingly
> unrelated things I had previously observed suddenly click into place. I
> don't manage projects or people, I don't write code to spec. Sometimes
> I spontaneously write code to solve some problem I've observed.
>
> At SCO, I had business cards printed with the title "Technical
> Catalyst". The web form to order cards wanted to know my title; it had
> no preconceptions...
>
> In the real world, the closest matches are probably for positions named
> something like "Escalations Engineer".
>
> If you're looking for me, or know of someone who is, let me know.
>
> It's been fun,
>
>
>>Bela<

Harold Stevens wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.sco.misc.]
>
> In <200503180349.aa22972@deepthought.armory.com> Bela Lubkin:
>
> > Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work
for
> > The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's
been
> > in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
> > times"...
>
> You are escaping from rank bedlam, from my readings on Groklaw and
the
> SCOX[E] Yahoo! message board. Likely, yet another unfortunate
casualty
> of a management hellbent on some very dubious litigation while
gutting
> their legacy Unix business, and suing customers on any pretext.

It's probably hopeless to try to get this across, but

1) working at SCO is not "rank bedlam"
2) you can't believe all that you read at Groklaw
3) you can't believe *anything* you read on the Yahoo boards
4) SCO management has not been "gutting" its legacy Unix business
5) SCO OpenServer 6 "Legend" is progressing well as Bela stated.

Jonathan Schilling

Quick questions/comments for Jonathan, and Bela, too, if I may...

First, I'm a regular from the Yahoo SCOXE board; saltydogmn. Look up
the profile - my gmail account is in there, and it's through Google
that I'm posting this now.

Okay -

#2) What on Groklaw can't you read and believe? I'm guessing you must
be referring to the comment section, since the actual unsealed court
documents are there for everyone to see, and those are beyond reproach.


#3) This one should be prefaced with "When reading anything posted by
the resident SCO fanboys"; there have been many times when scoops were
broken by people at the Yahoo board. Several people in the IT and
financial press are members there - Bob Mims, Dion Cornett, and Melanie
Hollands are the big 3; I have had conversations with two of them, and
I wouldn't think you're discounting their journalistic integrity now,
are you? That should be reserved for the ones that really deserve it -
Laura Didio, Rob Enderle, Dan Lyons, and the current worst offender,
Maureen O' Gara. Take a look at her latest pile of offal - she must
have had way too much green beer yesterday, because she has lost it
completely.

#4) How many people work for SCOXE today, compared to even 3 years ago?
All we hear about is cuts. The only job listings we have seen lately
are for the Financial department, and that is probably due to the
creative bookwork Bert brought with him from his previous accounting
scandal.

#5) How can you even release "Legend", if there are still pending cases
on SCO's copyright infringement of IBM's contributed code to the
"available through many of the latest Open Source technologies that are
integrated into SCO OpenServer 6", as quoted from the press release?


I know you don't have to answer any of this, which would be par for the
course; no one who is a SCOXE supporter on the board has ever
positively identified themselves, let alone answer simple, direct
questions. One can only wonder why.

One more thing - if you do decide to stop by the board, take a look at
message number 246600. I doctored up your OpenServer6 press release.
Nothing personal, mind you.

saltydogmn@gmail.com wrote:
>
> #2) What on Groklaw can't you read and believe? I'm guessing you must
> be referring to the comment section, since the actual unsealed court
> documents are there for everyone to see, and those are beyond
reproach.

I agree being able to read the actual court documents is valuable.
PJ's analysis of them, however, is an exercise in partisan spin,
and the reader comments continue that pattern unto self-congratulatory
group-think.

> #3) This one should be prefaced with "When reading anything posted by
> the resident SCO fanboys"; there have been many times when scoops
were
> broken by people at the Yahoo board. Several people in the IT and
> financial press are members there - Bob Mims, Dion Cornett, and
Melanie
> Hollands are the big 3; I have had conversations with two of them,
and
> I wouldn't think you're discounting their journalistic integrity now,
> are you?

The times I've read the Yahoo boards for SCO or for most other
companies, the signal-to-noise ratio has been very poor, with childish
invective being the rule. Furthermore many of the posts have shown
little or no understanding of the technologies involved. That said,
I haven't looked at the SCO board recently, and if you and the other
people you mention are making intelligent contributions, I'll stand
corrected.

> #4) How many people work for SCOXE today, compared to even 3 years
ago?
> All we hear about is cuts.

Yes, there have been some cuts, but there are also sometimes re-hires.
In any case, there is still a sizeable force working on new product
development.

> #5) How can you even release "Legend", if there are still pending
cases
> on SCO's copyright infringement of IBM's contributed code to the
> "available through many of the latest Open Source technologies that
are
> integrated into SCO OpenServer 6", as quoted from the press release?

I don't know about the legal issues, but I assure you SCO OpenServer 6
will be released when completed.

> One more thing - if you do decide to stop by the board, take a look
at
> message number 246600. I doctored up your OpenServer6 press release.
> Nothing personal -

Thanks, but I'll pass.

Jonathan Schilling

Bela Lubkin wrote:

> Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work for
> The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's been
> in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
> times"...
>
> As I depart, intense work continues on the SCO OpenServer 6 "Legend"
> project. It's going remarkably well given the immense complexity of the
> task. No, I can't give you any more details than the press releases on
> www.sco.com.
>
> If I'm in your address book, enter my armory.com address. I understand
> that the sco.com address will forward for a few weeks, then it will
> start bouncing. belal@sco.com -> bela@armory.com (or belal or filbo).
>
> I intend to continue monitoring the SCO newsgroups for as long as it
> makes sense to do so. That depends partly on what I do next -- if I
> fill my brain up with Mac OS/X or Linux or something else, the SCO
> knowledge will rot a lot faster than if I keep working on SCO OSes.
>
> During what I expect to be a long search for The Perfect Job, I will be
> available to do short-term contract projects. You may have an idea of
> my areas of expertise from reading these newsgroups. My own idea goes
> something like this:
>
> - troubleshooting weird system problems; debugging
> - OpenServer kernel
> - device drivers
> - performance
> - security
>
> I don't believe in flashy glitz. I don't even have a real homepage. If
> you need my services, you know it. I'm not here to sell you something
> you didn't want in the first place.
>
> For consulting/contract matters, contact me at bela_sco@armory.com.
>
> I'm also listed on the aplawrence.com consultant search.
>
> ================================================== ===========================
>
> "The Perfect Job"??
>
> Ideally, I see myself as a troubleshooting spider in the middle of a
> software maintenance organization. I have a web of connections with all
> the development and maintenance engineers, support, QA, test, doc, etc.
> people. I read source code, I watch code deltas, I look at incoming
> support requests and bug reports, I monitor customer discussions on
> mailing lists and newsgroups. I make connections. People come to me
> with weird problems and I mysteriously already know the root cause,
> because as soon as I hear the problem description, three other seemingly
> unrelated things I had previously observed suddenly click into place. I
> don't manage projects or people, I don't write code to spec. Sometimes
> I spontaneously write code to solve some problem I've observed.
>
> At SCO, I had business cards printed with the title "Technical
> Catalyst". The web form to order cards wanted to know my title; it had
> no preconceptions...
>
> In the real world, the closest matches are probably for positions named
> something like "Escalations Engineer".
>
> If you're looking for me, or know of someone who is, let me know.
>
> It's been fun,
>
>
>>Bela<

Best of luck in whatever the future holds for you.

Many thanks for your always informative posts!

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