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Computerworld: SCO Could Face Uphill Battle in Drawing New Customers

[ Thanks to libdave
for this link. ]

“After leaving the happy confines of its SCO Forum 2003 in Las
Vegas, The SCO Group Inc. this week said it’s going to take its
latest product road map to new customers to try and sell itself and
its upcoming revamped operating system software.

“But that task will likely be much tougher for the Lindon,
Utah-based company than building excitement among its faithful core
users.

“‘I have no intentions of ever doing business with SCO,’ said
Chad Wilson, a computer support analyst at an Ohio-based hospital
that runs Windows-equipped servers and dabbles in Linux and IBM
AIX. Wilson said SCO’s recent actions in its $3 billion lawsuit
against IBM over its Unix intellectual property turned him off when
SCO began threatening Linux users with legal action if they don’t
pay new $699-per-CPU licensing fees to SCO. ‘Basically, with their
tactics, they hurt their chance of getting a future customer,’
Wilson said…”


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