In article <bfj4hf$b3r$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, kevin bailey
<deeval_oper@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>SCO's lawyers have dismayed most unix developers/sysadmins
>SCOworldwide and will now go under but what i want to know is...

>is it just a complete cockup by SCO in allowing their lawyers to
>try to make money from nothing instead of creating good product?

>or..

>is the hand of MS behind this somehow - certainly smacks of FUD
>tactics?

The interview that Darl has on Zdnet explains the SCO side fairly
well - even though some of Farber's question seem to be slighty
biased.

And I remember email exchanges from a couple of very knowledgable
people about the Unixware 2 SMP implementations - about 2 years
after SCO acquired Unix from Novell. It really was about the best
SMP around - about the only which scaled linearly.

I combine that older knowledge with what Darl said in the interview
about IBM and Project Montery - and his explanation makes sense.

I'd suggest going to zdnet and searching for Dan Farber's interview
with McBride. It about 10-15 minutes long and gives the SCO POV.

And I see that SCOGroup bought a startup called Vultus today - a
web services company.

I guess well have to wait until 2005 until this goes to trial to
see just who is right, who is wrong, and what lies in the
middle-ground.




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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com