SCO rises from the dead

Past, Present, Future

So, how does a "new company" that has no past or current products and "plans" to be "a world class software company" already have a "substantial and prestigious customer list"? UnXis has existed for perhaps two days and hasn't sold anything, so there are no customers.

UnXis is a total unknown on the map. The only thing I found in the first hundred links from Google that remotely match "UnXis" is this very Blog. (UNXIS Consulting does not appear to be the same entity, and the unxis domains look like parked web sites probably created by someone depending on making money from people who mistype "unix"). I figure that having used the company name about a half dozen times in this post will put Steven's Blog at the top of Google's search results tomorrow.

So, while completely unknown UnXis claims there is "very substantial interest from major customers, including several government entities and multi-national corporations." Interest in what? There are no products. So, what are they selling? Press releases full of compost?

IP? What IP?

Hi Steve, if that is you,

"IP of SCO are to be acquired"
Out of curiosity, exactly what IP is that you expect to be purchasing? And just in case this wasn't dug up in your due diligence, SCO no longer exists. The organization you are dealing with is Caldera, a.k.a. The SCO Group.

"to take advantage of the substantial changes in the private equity world primary brought about by the ongoing the financial crisis"
How exactly does The SCO Group fit into changes brought about by the ongoing financial crisis? Long before the financial crisis started it was shown in court that The SCO Group has no evidence to backup its outrageous claims, copyrights or nots.

"UnXis has no interest in pursuing or continuing any litigation and will focus on developing new generation systems addressing the current and future needs of its substantial and prestigious customer list."
Outstanding, I was under the impression that this was the path Caldera was going to take before current management was put in place and started driving the company and SCO's reputation into the ground.

"UnXis systems will be proprietary systems"
Again, out of curiosity, have you performed your due diligence on the copyrights, licensing and functional state of the base source code you intend to use for your product? Even though The SCO Group's customer base has been rapidly dwindling I suppose there may still be a market worth chasing. But it would seem more appropriate to base a new product off one of the BSDs or linux. I seriously doubt you will be able to compete with the resources backing BSD and linux while starting from a crufty old operating system with questionable copyright ownership and limited engineering support for maintenance and development.

Put it in writing...

File it in court...

Let's see the deal in court... and see what US Trustee, Novel and IBM think...

Oh... and of course... let's see what Judge Kevin Gross thinks.

Hello Steve and some advice

Linux techno-troopers and Linux pinheads will always associate you and your company with SCO.

Nevertheless, you should no fear their strategies and agendas as Linux is dead on the desktop.

I recommend your PR people to study well the history of Linux and its advocacy tactics to avoid some of the mistakes made by SCO, Microsoft and some tech journalists.

Linux on the desktop is doomed.

There's no need to develop strategies to compete with Linux on the desktop as its fragmented community has made enough irreversible mistakes.

Because Linux is doomed on the desktop, there no need to develop strategies to compete with it on the server.

Consider the millions of dollars and strategies invested by IBM and other companies in the early 2000s in Linux. They made no difference on the adoption of Linux on the desktop.

Regards.

Anonymous Insider

Dead?

Linux is a rising star on the desktop, and gaining more and more market traction and uptake every day. Your claims are not just FUD, but poppycock.

It doesn't matter though, since failing to compete with Linux on the desktop will just hand Linux a default win, and that's something that benefits everyone.

PR won't confuse the FOSS community either, since it relies on scientific disection of arguments and protestations. Lies and misrepresentations will be uncovered, and brought to light. Your only workable choice is to behave ethically and honestly. Is that such a terrible thing, Mr Insider? That businesses actually deal fairly and honestly, instead of resorting to lies, strongarming tactics, manipulation of panels, abusive practices and so forth? I for one consider it a step forward.

It has been 9 years, since those investments seeded development work that continues at a staggering pace. Those investments are now bearing fruit across the board.

Is that you Darl?

Dead?

Someone else called it a clusterf*ck:

"First of all let me generally comment that this entire situation is a clusterf*ck. I am not happy with the technical constraints imposed by Linux and its assorted UIs on Chrome's UI and feature set."

Source: http://tinyurl.com/lwvlp8

Somebody else was more specific and explained why Linux s*cks on the desktop.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/p5mnxy

Sorry, if Linux on the desktop didn't happen when big companies were spending millions of dollars, it isn't going to happen now.

Face it, Linux lost the desktop war when Apple embraced FreeBSD for Mac OS X.