[News] SCO's Staff Jumping Ship While Web Site Gets Neglected
Roy Schestowitz
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| It's day five of the SCO High Availability Clusters link fiasco, and
| there are no signs of life from the Unix vendor. SCO's homepage link
| to the HA Clusters software remains down, despite our plea for the
| company simply to add "ing" to the URL to fix the situation.
|
| It seems clear that demand for SCO's clustering software is running
| pretty low, since the company has failed to notice its broken link. It
| also seems clear that SCO's web staff has taken on skeleton crew
| status.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/05/sco_web_down/
Related (from yesterday):
SCO's clusters crippled by missing 'ING'
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| The poor SCO Group can't get much right these days, including
| keeping its high availability clusters highly available.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/04/sco_no_ha/
Novell move could kill SCO's Linux lawsuits
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| SCO shares closed Monday at $1.11, down 11 cents and 9 percent
| from last Friday's trading. The company's stock has been in
| freefall since Kimball's ruling, dropping from $2.40 per share.
| SCO stock had traded above $4.50 before Wells' earlier decision
| in June.
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yttrx
Apart from SCOs horrific business practices and frivolous lawsuits,
SCO Unixware is the absolute shittiest UNIX or Unix-like operating
system to have EVER existed.
You know, you couldn't even change the IP address of a running
SCO machine without rebooting it until this last OS version? "State
of the Art" my fucking ass.
-----yttrx
Ramon F Herrera
I can attest to that. More PITAs: The whole filesystem seen by
sysadmins is filled with thousands of softlinks to some weird
directories. The first time I saw this, I was convinced that I was in
the middle of a failed install. It is very hard to make partitions at
install time and the default is a single partition under /. Yes, you
still need to reboot after doing the simplest things such as changing
hostname, IP address, etc.
The only reason I was forced to use SCO is because I worked with a
telco that had to use Dialogic voice boards (which is pretty much a
monopoly) and SCO was the only Unix supported at the time. To make
things worse Microsoft acquired 15% of Dialogic and companies were
being paid by Microsoft (the owner of one of those companies told me
this, I am willing to testify) to sabotage the SCO version. There was a
happy ending, though: Intel acquired 100% of the Dialogic stock -plus
some percentage of RedHat- and from then on the Dialogic Tech Summits
are filled with penguins all over the place (btw: thanks Intel!!). Now
development is done in Linux and ported to Windows later, the opposite
of what used to be.
-Ramon
Jim Richardson
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ouch! you have to work pretty hard to fuck up that bad...
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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and
Hubris."
-- Larry Wall in den Perl5-Manpages