Why it's a good Idea (buying SCO) (Score 1)

While M. Current claims high an loud : "Once you play like the enemy, what's the point of the battle?" I still think it's a good idea.

1- They have the market capital (the money)
2- They gain the specialised workforce
3- They then have businesses (a lot of them!) as clients
4- The UNIX trademark (I think it is still owned by SCO, right?)
5- The Monterrey project (as outlined in the original article, well written too!)

Playing like the enemy is sometime morally adverse, but sometimes, it's necessary. If the French army, back in the Moyen Age, had played it's cards like the English invasion army, maybe they would not have been defeated by a smaller force...

Out of context? Maybe not.

Micro$oft is one of the major competitors of Red Hat. And vice versa. Red Hat may have to brace for impact when Microsoft start throwing stones at it.

Microsoft has a market capital of 474B$ (this morning, 9:34AM). Red Hat is at 5B$. In business, it's usually big fishes that swallow small ones (I did says *usually*).

So when Red Hat went public, it's to be worth something, to be on the map financially.

A good move.

Bernard Munger
CIO
Julien Inc.