“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…”