Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money 455
benploni writes "George Weiss of Gartner has published a paper with some interesting recommendations regarding SCO. They include 1) Keep a low profile and do not divulge details on Linux deployments. 2) Until a judgment in a case would unequivocally warrant it, Linux users should not pay SCO the license fees it has asked for to settle its allegations of infringement of intellectual property rights. 3) Do not permit SCO to audit your premises without legal authorization. 4) For customers of SCO Open Server and UnixWare, an unfavorable judgment could cause SCO to cease operations or sell itself. That could harm future support and maintenance. Just in case, prepare a plan for migrating to another platform within two years. There's more, but are the analysts finally catching on?"
How do I apply? (Score:5, Funny)
1) Something happens
2) Side with big business and release a paper
3) Wait until popular tide changes
4) Release new paper contradicting old one.
Shit, I could do that all day. Sign me up!
Shhh..... (Score:4, Funny)
That's exactly why many call them anal-ysts (Score:4, Funny)
Oh really? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean the same Gartner Group that recommended people to halt Linux deployment because of all the SCUD (SCO FUD)?
Wait a minute ... no, no, none of this adds up at all! :-)
zWhat are they doing? (Score:1, Funny)
Are they just toying with the system for whatever reason? Is the CEO bored so they ask themselves, "How much BS can we get away with before we get arrested and/or the govt. tells us to stop?"
What exactly is going on? They're not stupid. They know that their claims that "their" code was included in Linux distributions is completely asinine.
That'd be like me running of and trying to sue all these corporations because I wanted to buy black shoelaces but purchased a remote control helicopter instead (or something else utterly stupid that wastes everyone's time)..
Re:Change your TCP/IP fingerprint (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shhh..... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How do I apply? (Score:5, Funny)
1) Something happens
2) Side with big business and release a paper
3) Wait until popular tide changes
4) Release new paper contradicting old one.
Shit, I could do that all day. Sign me up!
It wouldn't surprise me if you were now sued for a DMCA violation -- reverse engineering their business practice!
Tomorrow's headline... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Change your TCP/IP fingerprint (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know, I just can't see McBride as the angel of death.
Of course analysts are "catching on" (Score:1, Funny)
But what do they think about emacs vs vi?
Re:Change your TCP/IP fingerprint (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why wait? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So.. (Score:2, Funny)
For those of you with SCO Unix products.... (Score:5, Funny)
But... (Score:0, Funny)
Then Gardner -> Pro-Linux
Pro-Linux -> Anti-SCO
And Microsoft-> SCO
This doesn't match up... Guess we'll need NEO to balance the equation (or Agent Smith)
Thank you Mr. Obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Huh? Are there actually companies stupid enough to say,
Re:Shhh..... (Score:4, Funny)
Cheers,
IT
Re:Red Herrings Eat Profits (Score:2, Funny)
SCO Information Minister (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Red Herrings Eat Profits (Score:5, Funny)
The crucial difference here is that Rome was, at one time during its history, feared and respected.
This is obviously part of IBM's plan (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Shhh..... (Score:0, Funny)
Bugs: You keep out of this; he doesn't have to shoot you now.
Daffy: Yes, he does! (To Elmer) I demand that you shoot me now!
Elmer: *Boom*
The smoke from the gunshot clears.
Daffy: Let's... run through that again, shall we?
Bugs: All right.
Daffy (as if reading from a script): Shoot him now, shoot him now.
Bugs (same): You keep out of this, he doesn't have to shoot you now.
Daffy: Aha! That's it, hold it right there: pronoun trouble. It's not 'He doesn't have to shoot you now," it's 'He doesn't have to shoot me now.' Well, I say, he does have to shoot me now. So shoot me now!!
Elmer: *Boom*
Darl McBride is Toad from X Men (Score:5, Funny)
To be continued....
Re:For those of you with SCO Unix products.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slow learners (Score:5, Funny)
In summary:
Thanks, Gartner. That's the kind of hard-hitting, insightful business advice we need in this management-by-Ziff-Davis world. Maybe next month they can do a helpful piece on not paying a parking ticket until you've been issued one, and then only if it was issued by a real Dept. of Traffic officer, and not some homeless guy who wrote the citation on a napkin.
Corollary to Godwin's Law (Score:1, Funny)
At such time as this story is posted, refreshing Slashdot is not necessary until work next morning, as no further productive news will be posted on that day.
Too Late! (Score:1, Funny)
Oops, I already emailed SCO and dared them to sue me...
Re:Change your TCP/IP fingerprint (Score:3, Funny)
Another suit! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Red Herrings Eat Profits (Score:5, Funny)
Why do they need top publish this advice on a website? Can't they just email SCO's last remaining customer directly?
Re:Change your TCP/IP fingerprint (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why wait? (Score:4, Funny)
The solution is clear - RAICHS: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Corporate Headquarters. Which slashdotter will be first to market with this exciting technology?!
YLFIJust a thought (Score:2, Funny)
MiniCluster of Opteron Servers: $85000
Cicso infrastructure found on eBay: $2100
Big screen TV for watching an irrelevant $200M software company take on a $150B worldwide behemoth, without a leg to stand on: $3000
Seeing the guts of the cockroach squirt out from around IBM's Gucci Loafer: PRICELESS
There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard....
Obviously... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Software Company? Got jobs? (Score:2, Funny)