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future of sco openserver osr5

From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: SCO 5.0.6 Question
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:55:29 GMT
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Brian K. White wrote:

> So yeah, even though I've been using linux (and nothing else) at home since
> redhat 4.0, and even though I have much more and deeper experience with
> linux than with sco, I'm well and truely agreived at the stream of negative
> developments concerning Open Server. It sucks big time and it's as simple as
> that.
> 
> It's three things mostly:
> 1) we have all invested a lot of time and energy becoming knowledgeable in
> the care and feeding of a certain product. (Open Server) And now it's
> starting to look like the value & usefulness of that investment is starting
> to fall off.

> If sco open server becomes unsupportable because development ceases and key
> manufacturer resources go away, then that really is a heavy blow to the
> system. If you don't see this, then I submit that perhaps you are just one
> of the new breed who sets a low enough bar that linux passes. If such is the
> case, I ask you to simply accept that there are others for whom linux does
> not pass, and sco does, and so losing sco would suck majorly.

As someone who has been working at SCO and now Caldera since 1989, and
in the OpenServer development team since 1993, my perception of the
current situation is greatly different from what you seem to have
received.  What I see is, since the Caldera takeover, the OpenServer
team has been in a much better political position then it was any time
since SCO bought UnixWare.  For the first time in 5 years it does _not_
feel like we're being ground under heel, made to feel that the product
we've labored over is unwanted and soon to be discontinued.  Caldera
actually has a clue about the simple idea: "take care of the product
that provides all the income".

This is not to say that it feels like we have _all_ the manpower we need
or should have.  But the whole company is a lot smaller than SCO was,
the economy's all weird -- times are different.  It _does_ feel like we
have enough people to keep maintaining and improving OpenServer for the
moment, and it even feels like we might get more people if the situation
improves.  Believe me, once UnixWare came on the scene, that _never_
felt like a possibility under SCO.

>Bela<
 

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