“I think the future for SCO is more in service and products such
as Tarantella, rather than in operating systems. I’ve talked to
several companies with point-of-sales applications where Linux is
displacing SCO,” said analyst Stacey Quandt at Giga Information
Group Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.”
“Last week at LinuxWorld here, SCO said it was porting its
Tarantella Web-server software to Linux. The product, due in the
second quarter, would be SCO’s first commercial offering for the
Linux platform, though the Santa Cruz, Calif.-based company began
offering support for Linux users last year….”
“SCO is trying very hard to look benevolent and supportive
of open-source computing, but Linux is clearly a competitive
operating system on Intel that can only hurt SCO,” said George
Weiss, an analyst at Gartner Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn.”