SCO boss to customers: 'Blah. Blah. Blah' SCO Group boss Jeff Hunsaker has done away with corporate speak in his latest seasonal note to partners and customers and replaced it with a terse, blunt message that reads: "Blah. Blah. Blah." Sadly the CEO and president of the bloodied and bruised software company was not immediately available for comment, but we think this …
i.e. they could only afford to pay their lawyers to approve one word - 'blah'!!!
Or alternatively it could be a Ballmer-inspired message.... "I have 3 words for you ... Blah, Blah, Blah!"
Mine's the one with the walkman in the pocket playing the remix of "developers developers developers developers...."
"...but this looks like a CRM SNAFU. (says the CRM guy...)"
I agree - the site contains a lot of empty articles and the kind of general rubbish you might see in a mock-up. Oh dear
@Peter Simpson
"Maybe they had to lay off their corporate communications guy?...."
Certainly looks like it.
I thought TSCOG had sued enough of them to make the others flee in terror.The BIG legal battle was with IBM (ex-partner (monterey) and customer). That got delayed for the argument with Novell (partner: TSCOG collects license fees on Unix for Novell and is supposed to hand the money on to Novell). The bankruptcy stopped the lack of progress in TSCOG vs Daimler-Chrysler (ex-customer) and TSCOG vs Autozone (ex-customer). TSCOG vs SUSE would be in arbitration if both sides had not agreed to wait until after the bankruptcy. Redhat vs TSCOG was waiting for the result of TSCOG vs Novell, but that will have to wait until after the bankruptcy too.
TSCOG has sent nastygrams to many fortune 1000 companies. There cannot be many people outside the third world that TSCOG has not sued or threatened to sue. They have claimed that all linux users owe them money. That almost certainly means you as at least one out of your satnav, router or PVR is a linux box.
If anyone is thinking about being a TSCOG partner or customer remember their chief activity is litigation and judging by their track record, they are not very good at it. (TSCOG changed its name. It used to be Caldera - a Linux distributor!)
Interesting comment that they are looking for a buyer to take their UNIX whilst they focus on the IP lawsuits. I have to ask, since lawyers cost money. Where the f*** is the money coming from? No one is buying SCO UNIX now (leaving aside its technical merits, procurement folks will be nervous about sending orders to a company whose finances are so precarious, and Linux is well understood to be a suitable enterprise alternative even by people who only read Forbes) and the mobile server business is barely off the ground and surely can't be pumping wads of cash into SCO's coffers.
I feel really sad for SCO's engineers and the other folk who had nothing to do with this lawsuit. SCO UNIX was, and is, really quite good, and the management pissed it all away chasing rainbows. Yet another casualty of hubris. I'll file it with DEC and SGI.
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