Submission + - SCO blames Linux for bankruptcy filing 4
Stony Stevenson writes: SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says competition from the open source Linux operating system was a major reason why the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday.
In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux."
McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix."
In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux."
McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix."
So ... what? (Score:2)
That's supposed to explain why SCO is in the toilet?
Re: (Score:2)
Wait.
They had their chance (Score:2)
Nobody forced SCO to keep selling a decrepit Unix from the '80s for twice as much as everyone else.
They were just as free to get behind Linux like IBM or go more open and lower prices like Sun.
Of course, today's SCO came from Caldera, the ONLY Linux distro I've ever seen that they couldn't even give away at a Linux enthusiasts meeting! Of course, that was the version that was a barely disguised RedHat CD with 2 or 3 non-free pac
They sell an obsolete product (Score:1)
That's why they went out of business. Despite the success of Linux, SCO's commercial UNIX competitors don't seem to be going bankrupt -- Sun, HP, IBM.