UnXis Group To Acquire SCO 131
Evil-G writes "In an email on Friday, SCO informed its partners that UnXis Inc. was chosen as the successful bidder for SCO's Unix software business on 26 January. The slightly convoluted phrasing is probably due to SCO's current reorganization under Chapter 11. On 16 February, the transaction is to be submitted for approval to the bankruptcy court where SCO's case is pending."
UnXis is a shell company owned by SCO? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:So all SCO has left is lawsuits? (Score:5, Interesting)
You have to wonder why in the world anyone would want to buy the business division, considering the SCO name is poison to just about anyone who knows anything about Unix.
Maybe because they have a 3-letter domain name? Probably their most valuable asset ;-)
Re:UnXis is a shell company owned by SCO! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:UnXis is a shell company owned by SCO? (Score:4, Interesting)
That still doesn't make it relevant. SCO's case was garbage, PJ, whether a human being, the IBM legal team or Jesus Fucking Christ, did a considerable amount of analysis, and backed the analysis of experts in Unix, who said that McBride was nothing more than a common thug trying to use what his company did not possess to extort licensing fees from companies using Unix-like operating systems.
At the end of the day, SCO failed because it had been taken over by dishonest and dishonorable scamsters.
Re:So all SCO has left is lawsuits? (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm in that situation - we've got a proprietary point of sale system that a lot of our customers run, that was written for SCO OpenServer. To move to Linux would cost $7,000 - $15,000 in license fees for the license transfer, so they're staying on SCO. An SCO OpenServer 6 license is a lot cheaper than the Thoroughbred software stack it's written in.
It's not a bad system - the problem with SCO was never their technical abilities. I really can't complain about its stability either - that damn things just keep running, and the most we have to do is replace tape drives and fans every once in a blue moon...
Re:So all SCO has left is lawsuits? (Score:4, Interesting)
I know of a large SCO customer who is running OpenServer 1.6 in a VM rather than pay for upgrading the thousands of systems to a version that can support modern hardware like sat a and USB.
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