On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:34:28AM +0800, M.W.Chang wrote: >interesting comment... :) > >"... Gillen said another reason for the switch to Linux could be the >shrinking revenue of Caldera, which bought SCO Unix. "It doesn't give >customers a strong sense of security," he said of Caldera's >disappointing recent sales performance. "That said, we do expect >[Caldera] to be around for a long time."
I wouldn't bet my business on that. When Caldera announced the SCO purchase, I had hoped that they would be getting the technical people and assets, leaving the marketing and most of the top management to count their stock options. Unfortunately many of the top people at SCO came along with the deal, the same ones who had been at the helm as SCO went from a solid company and product into an also-ran. Had I known that Caldera would be purchasing SCO at the time of the Caldera IPO, I would have probably convinced my wife that we didn't have to take advantage of the ``Friends & Family'' opportunity on the IPO (she was pissed because I had not bought in on the Red Hat F&F offer). I could have bought and installed a very nice standby generator and rewired our server room with the money we put into Caldera stock. 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/ ``Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.'' - Sir Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
