[AccessD] SCO/Novell suit is over, SCO loses

Whoop... the word should have been 'intractable'... I guess that comes with
writing fast and letting the spell-checker do the correcting.

Thanks for the heads up, Ciao, and I will make the appropriate addition to
my spell checker library.

Jim



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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jurgen Welz
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:19 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] SCO/Novell suit is over, SCO loses


Jim:  Perhaps you meant antonym?  I didn't find the SCO icon.  Intransient
seems to preempt 'their own oblivion'.

 

Intransient \In*tran"sient\, a.
     Not transient; remaining; permanent. --Killingbeck.
     [1913 Webster]

Did you mean intransigent or transient or something else?


Ciao Jürgen Welz 

Edmonton, Alberta 

jwelz at hotmail.com


 
> From: accessd at shaw.ca
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:39:04 -0700
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] SCO/Novell suit is over, SCO loses
> 
> 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 		 	   		  
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