SCO tries to reinvigorate product line

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SCO has no sense of customer perspective, I blame the leadership.

SCO is incapable of fosucing on what the customer sees them like. The average SCO customer doesn't care if SCO is a market leader. They aren't worried that SCO's intellectual property may or may not have been used without their permission.

They want a solid reliable Unix server like the one they've had in the past. The annual cost for the next few years doesn't matter, what matters is having an OS that will be around for the long haul that runs reliably.

That makes the pricing quote look kinda dumb. Sure, SBE is only a one time $599, but support is probably extra after a period of time. But is SCO gonna still be here tomorrow or the next day, the next year, or the next decade?

At the rate they're bleeding money on their lawsuites, they won't be here in a decade if they don't stop or win pretty soon. A yearly difference of a few hundred a year between SCO's unix offerings and RedHat's offerings is inconsequential to whether or not SCO is gonna be here in ten years.

And the excuse that declining income was because of competition, especially Linux is ludicrous. Until this year, SCO had a competing Linux product. It might not have had Red Hat quality or been perfect, but it was a decent server. They're legal proceedings forced them to remove from their product line the natural successor to their own Unix OSes.

So now, SCO loses not only its own Unix income due to outside competition, they can't regain it to internal competition (i.e. SCO Linux et. al.) for any price, for they have no Linux product now.

So, SCO's bleeding developers and staff in the Unix division, and can't afford to rehire them for their Linux division because they don't have one. Sad. I'm sure they're losing plenty of real talent from the Unix shop, so they can afford to keep a bunch of lawsuit happy morons in the top of the company. And who loses? The customer.

In an effort to make the Unix division profitable, SCO laid off 16 percent of its staff in the quarter ended April 30, the company said in the filing. The number of employees in the division dropped from 329 on April 30, 2003, to 263 on April 30, 2004, SCO said in the filing.

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