On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:22:15PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: ... >Bzzt! Thanks for playing. They've been "restructuring" since 5 months >after they went public. The CTO was not the problem, IMNSHO. The CEO is >the problem. Or, to paraphrase Bubba, "It's the CEO, stupid!" (Or, "It's >the stupid CEO!").
IHMO, Ransom is considerably better than many of the SCO executives that Caldear inherited with the deal, many of whom helped turn SCO from a successful technology based company into a slug. When SCO went public in the mid '90s, the Michels turned much of the control over to a bunch of bean counters and MBAs who didn't appear to have a clue what their company did for a living. Unfortunately Caldera has managed to decimate (destroy) the SCO AECs (Advanced Education Centers), and alienate SCO's formerly strong reseller channel. In addition the really competent people in engineering and support left too, leaving a company without a lot of technical or marketing expertise. In 1995, Caldera started building a reseller channel by approaching existing SCO resellers (Celestial was one of their first resellers back then). IHMO, they had already gotten many of the best of these already before the SCO acquisition. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Government is the great fiction, through which everbody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
