Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jul 20 00:39:04 CDT 2010
That is truly sad. At one time it was the best UNIX Company out there. I was even a certified installers and reseller and made a good coin with their products. The trouble with the UNIX market is that they were all a bunch of warring camps and they were too busy fighting each other while a small company like Microsoft slide out of nowhere and effectively wiped them all out. It did not matter to anyone that UNIX was a superior operating system, it was always much more important to have a good user friendly interface. Presentation has always been more important than functionality. After the great UNIX wars, the intransient companies continued fighting until their own oblivion and to make themselves little more than a foot note in history. You have to go no further than your dictionary and look up the word intransient and you will find the SCO icon clearly displayed. UNIX still exists in the mini and main frame but little else. Microsoft did not even fire a shot and watched their only challengers wipe them selves out. But before Microsoft could claim complete world dominance another flavour of UNIX or Linux appeared; stable, powerful and free. Microsoft has claimed that Linux is the single greatest threat to the free enterprise system and maybe it is. Fifteen years later and now Microsoft is watching its empire slowly eroding. Its competitors are using a flavour of Linux or UNIX like Mac, using Linux to control the internet like Google or moving to their own desktop, like Ubuntu. Will Linux ever dominate the market? No; but neither or ever again will Microsoft. Some say that Linux is not ready for prime time but when your 10 or 12 year old son or daughter can easily install it, the old fears are just that; old fears. SCO Unix on the other hand is an old and dying product, the epitome and poster boy of the UNIX wars. The only SCO I think of now is the producer of a very fine brand of non alcoholic ginger beer of which I would highly recommend to anyone. For you Unix buffs who want to see the turbulent UNIX/Linux world check out the following: http://www.quicklycode.com/wp-content/files/unix_history.png Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 8:33 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA Subject: [AccessD] SCO/Novell suit is over, SCO loses http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/11/sconovell-suit-is-over-sco-loses/ -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com