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I think they got what they wanted.

That was to make money off the hype.

Right now it's really hard to tell what they were thinking in the beginning.

I think from the beginning, they didn't expect to win the case (IBM's legal department is probably the biggest in the world), just make a lot of noise, use whatever influence they had left from their dying business, last it as long as possible, and go out with a whisper.

Their main unix offering was nothing compared to the big guys (IBM, HP...), and all their side ventures failed miserably (Linux). So to sum up, their business was way past its prime and close to six feet under.

BUT, they managed to spike their stock from $1.09 to $22.29 in less than ten months!!! Pretty impressive for a going_no_where_but_down company.

If you look at its history (10 months, I believe), the case hasn't made ANY progress until the last 2-3 months (also when stock leveled and started to go down). Everything was accussations that changed every month, fed only to the media, and never touched the judicial system (Millions of lines of code, slideshows w/ symbolic font, simple header files...).

Anyway, I see SCO trying to prolong this case as long as possible, and if they can't, drop it. I don't see what the legal department can do if SCO and persons involved moved assets off shore and declared bankruptcy. The court can't force them to continue a case that they started and now can't fund. All the other cases against them would become pointless as they would just plead guilty and can't pay the fines.

IBM will probably buy them out after that, inheriting whatever unix stuff they had. When this will happen... could be soon, or depending on how smart SCO is, longer.

Posted by: doe_z   Posted on: 01/19/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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