-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "My ongoing battle to try to give SCO Money" by Drew
======== Thursday, Sept 4, 2003 Two weeks ago, I wised up. I was sitting at my laptop, developing a product for my business on Linux, and thought to myself "If SCO really does have IP in Linux, then I'd better get me some licenses." I called SCO. The salesperson assured me that though they were backordered, I would hear from a sales rep within two weeks. This was sort of frustrating, since this meant that for two weeks my business was probably using copyrighted software without a license, but owhell. Two weeks passed without a phone call. I called them again today, and a salesperson, beginning with "I don't know quite how to explain this", let me know that there wasn't a product manager for Linux licenses, and that there wasn't currently a way for salespeople to sell these licenses. They were frustrated, too. Since my business model involves distributing application servers, I expressed concern over the transferability of the license, and asked if the license itself was available. It is not. More assurances followed that this will be productized soon, and I'll receive a phone call from my sales rep. Apparently the sales force for SCO is pretty much in the dark about the whole thing (and none to happy about it). When I offer money to a sales rep, and he can't manage to give me any product for it, we have a problem. As we all know, a sales rep would sell his boss's children if it a customer was willing to offer money for them. (And it counted towards his quartly sales quotas.) ======= Moral of the story? I don't quite know. Despite all the arm waving, SCO is still unable to let me throw money at them. They don't even have a prospective license for me to view. I'm continuously pointed to the three sentences on their web site, which is all that even their salespeople know about the product. How is it that they already have a fortune 500 customer, if they can't even sell the thing to me using advertised prices? Didn't they have a $699 offer for licenses that expired a couple weeks ago, and the price went up to $1399 or so? According to my own research, not ONE person must have bought at $699, because it is impossible according to their own salespeople to even purchase a license right now. Odd. - -drew - -- M. Drew Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Independent Rambler, Software/Standards/Freedom/Law -- http://dtype.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/XhPk2MO5UukaubkRAmcMAJ0SiAI5ei1Fz9oCRZyyNyyrRJj9cACeNABJ WKL5pi1/ow6ussIHYi/tig4= =h4T2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
