Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-18 Thread Eli Marmor
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Not really. The SCO that bought Xenix is not the SCO that is suing IBM. The SCO that is suing is actually Caldera. They changed the name to capitalize on SCO's name recognition as they were making money from SCO UNIX which they had bought a source license* (but

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-18 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Eli Marmor wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Not really. The SCO that bought Xenix is not the SCO that is suing IBM. The SCO that is suing is actually Caldera. They changed the name to capitalize on SCO's name recognition as they were making money from SCO UNIX which they had bought a source

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-18 Thread Miki Shapiro
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: By the way: an unknown fact, is that more than 50% of the worldwide UNIX installations belong to SCO, and all the other (including Sun and HP) have (together!) less than SCO alone. In numbers, and ignoring costs, it is possible to say that SCO shipped

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:39:11PM +0300, Miki Shapiro wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: By the way: an unknown fact, is that more than 50% of the worldwide UNIX installations belong to SCO, and all the other (including Sun and HP) have (together!) less than SCO alone. In

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-18 Thread Eli Marmor
Miki Shapiro wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: By the way: an unknown fact, is that more than 50% of the worldwide UNIX installations belong to SCO, and all the other (including Sun and HP) have (together!) less than SCO alone. In numbers, and ignoring costs, it is possible

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-18 Thread Eli Marmor
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Eli Marmor wrote: He had some mines in his way, and not everything went in the way he planned, so when the shares of Caldera were still very high (the DotCom hype) and SCO shares were down, he exploited the opportunity, and acquired SCO (for shares, if I recall

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-17 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
-- Original Message --- From: Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 Jun 2003 07:28:17 +0300 Subject: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS NB: [OT] added to subj. Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. SCO share goes down 10% as I write

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: If memory serves correctly: MS bought 5% of SCO shares back then when they sold Xenix to SCO, and then MS sold those shares. Not really. The SCO that bought Xenix is not the SCO that is suing IBM. The SCO that is suing is actually Caldera. They changed the name to

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-17 Thread Miki Shapiro
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: * This was fairly common around 1990. ATT sold many source licenses for UNIX. SCO bought one, Everex (ESIX) bought one, Interactive Systems (later owned by Kodak and sold to SUN) bought one, etc. . I While reading the net on this subject, I

Re: [OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:48:36PM +0300, Miki Shapiro wrote: . I While reading the net on this subject, I picked this piece up: Not only does SCO's most recent 10Q report document lots of interesting details over the deal with Microsoft, it also effectively make the claim that: The SCO

please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, thats what SCO says ;) As of (give or take) an hour ago, SCO officially terminated IBM's license to sell AIX.. http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=111534 Of course, ask any sane IT guy about this issue and they'll laugh out loud, but still, this is the first time I see that a

Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 16 June 2003 23:58, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Well, thats what SCO says ;) As of (give or take) an hour ago, SCO officially terminated IBM's license to sell AIX.. http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=111534 Well, since the last email 2 things happend: 1. SCO says that your

[OT] Re: please erase your AIX OS

2003-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
NB: [OT] added to subj. Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. SCO share goes down 10% as I write this email.. Still, it went up more than 10-fold since February... Going back to your previous post about M$ money: didn't M$ own a piece of the pre-Caldera SCO? If yes, do they still? --