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InfoWorld: SCO CEO: No Need to Sue More Customers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 4, 2004

“As The SCO Group Inc.’s reseller and developer community
gathers for its annual SCO Forum convention in Las Vegas this week,
one question on many attendees’ minds will be whether the company’s
future will be as a software vendor or as a litigator. Though SCO’s
lawsuits against IBM Corp., Novell Inc., DaimlerChrysler AG and
AutoZone Inc. have attracted a great deal of attention in the last
year, they have not helped SCO’s bottom line. The company is facing
mounting financial losses, which have been spurred by millions of
dollars in legal fees, a flagging Unix business, and anemic sales
of its SCOsource Linux licensing program, which brought in just
$11,000 in revenue during the company’s most recent financial
quarter.

“In the face of these challenges, SCO has apparently chosen to
make the company’s core Unix business, and not its legal
adventures, the center of this year’s show…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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