As reported by SCO 10k on the www.sec.gov website. Apparently if the cases do not make it to jury their business and operations would be materially harmed.
I would guess this means that the company would cease to exist? Anyone buying SCOX stock right now?
If you are looking for further justification of why Microsoft is embracing Linux this should do it. There is a great article over at www.techworld by Bryan Betts.
“Nearly half of all enterprises will be running mission-critical business applications on Linux in five years’ time. That’s according to survey of IT directors, VPs and CIOs carried out by Saugatuck Research, which questioned 133 businesses worldwide….
One of the major Korean cities, Gwangju Metropolitan City, has successfully completed a first phase of transitioning to open source software.
From an interesting little piece by Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNET. He gives a little explanation of why we are seeing the big moves by Oracle and Microsoft towards Linux. I agree with him also, you would not being seeing Linux “shifts” by these two huge blue chip companies, unless there is a big momentum swing already underway.
” It shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux next year, against 23% for Windows. The move is slower for larger enterprises, but the direction is clear. At least in the server world, Linux has won. “
I agree with this on server end. However, there is no doubt that Microsoft is the clear winner on the desktop and will remain on the top for years, unless we see an innovative or disruptive technology introduced for the Linux desktop environment.
Their change on Linux even beats John Kerry’s now infamous quote
“I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”
Microsoft, now supports Linux and in fact has paid Novell $450 million to ensure that the software will interoperate with Windows. This is a 180 degree turn from their previous stance just one year ago. You can read why Windows easily beats Linux in any comparision, especially for reliability.
OK, so Microsoft has a superior prodcut and there is no reason for you to even consider Linux. Today we just find out that Microsoft will support Linux and is paying a Linux vendor $450 million to ensure that Windows and Linux works together.
So why would Microsoft pay a Linux vendor all this money, when all of their studies clearly state that Linux is an inferior and mediocre OS? This goes against every piece of information that they have been feeding you for 5 years. So what are you going to believe next?
We’ve the seen the first few small skirmishes in the Linux war. The SCO conscripts were sent on the first charge. SCO suing IBM for ten billion dollars was first little probe of the defenses. I have been watching for years now on Groklaw (at least it seems like it). SCO is in full retreat now, and IBM is making the final push through the center of its line. It now makes sense that the next major offensive is launched by any force that is warring with Linux.
Just read a good piece from www.pcmag.com by John Dvorak “Is Microsoft Going to Start a Linux War?” He makes some good points as to what could happen next.
“With a shim, Microsoft could possibly do the following: Take a Linux distro, say SUSE; then create a shim that talks to the SUSE kernel. Publish the source code of the shim and what it does. Then take a proprietary Microsoft optimizer that lets various apps run on Linux perfectly with modifications to the Linux core—but that actually runs on the shim, not Linux. “
Uh ohh.. When you think about this, it makes a lot of sense, they are going hit linux where they are soft, the application space. With the above scenario, MS could run their applications on most linux distrubutions and keep their software applications closed source. (while in the meantime providing them a path to silently ditch their OS, and migrate to Linux) It will not be sudden, but will take years. There will many other little battles, but what is most important is that MS prevents any open source applications from gaining a toe-hold in the business world, and this would do it.
Microsoft, is embracing Linux again. Not sure what is brewing, got this tidbit from www.theinquirer.net. From the article “Microsoft-Novell pact blasted by Open Saucer” there is one paragraph that is a little scary.
“The Volnovo pact will mean that non-commercial individual contributors can make Open Source, but if anyone actually uses it for something other than a hobby or a non-profit organisation Vole can bring a software patent lawsuit against them unless they are a Novell customer, he said.”
If you use Open Source for something other than a hobby you should pay Microsoft a “tribute”. I mean License fee. Say, this is starting to sound a little like the HBO’s Sopranos. Maybe we should start paying with cash in a little white envelope.
I am sure that you have read about this one. Microsoft is extending a “helping hand” to a smaller struggling competitor, to help them with their Linux strategy. Huh? Sure Microsoft is a big supporter of companies with competing Linux solutions. They have always been that way, Steve Ballmer even publicly supports it. “Linux is Cancer”
So why is the occuring.
Novell-Microsoft: How many times can you sell your soul? by ZDNet’s Mitch Ratcliffe — I would not be comfortable turning Microsoft salespeople loose on my customers. They are armed to the teeth with discounts and incentives to beat any competitor. The announcement that Novell and Microsoft will work together to improve interoperability between Windows and Novell’s SuSE Linux, as well as cross-promote and support one another’s products strikes me [...]
Confused yet? You shouldn’t be, this standard operatng procedure for MS.
The triple EEE plan.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
And I was just getting ready to swtich eveything over to SUSE., hmm I think Im going back Redhat Fedora core now.
Yes, I want Tachometer for my computer. I keep dreaming abut having mechanical tachometer on top of my computer to display information that I am constantly “grepping” fom log files and such. Guess I could have digital one and it would be easier, but I am so tired of seeing everything digital.
For some reason a mechincal tachometer seems to live on. Just go look at the dash in your car. I bet it is mechincal and not digital. (I’m sure that the data that gets to it is digital) but the display remains mechanical looking. So with that little piece of info, I know that I am not alone in preferring a mechanical tachometer to a digital one.
Presently, I am just not having any look Googling for one. Oh well, maybe one day I strike “computer tachometer” gold. Until that time “grep” will just have to do.
Oracle offers half-price support for Red Hat Linux We all saw this one coming, and it really make 100% sense, and anyone in the enterprise database market knows why too. Why is this good news? It makes life simpler for the IT guys when trouble shooting problems that occur on their large backend systems.
The old scenario used to play out like this. Call the software vendor, get through to support then find out that the problem is related to the OS. Now call the OS company and suggest that there might be a problem. Righhtt… Call any OS company and receive support lately? That call is automatically punted back the software company, no questions asked.
Image having to make just 1 call, and receive OS, DB, and Application support in 1 call. This seems almost too good to be true. It could be. I do believe this is a win-win situation for everyone, even the end user.
