Re: Who will buy SCO

Bill Akers wrote:

Apparently there are two people going at this topic negatively.

Apparently, not theading the party line from Utah Headquarters is considered to be "negative".

(And I love the smell of napalm in the morning, yeah.)

I had intended to stay out of thsi foolish bit of blather, but......

....but your intentions seem to hold no water.

One thing I am absolutely certain of after following this thread is that you do not grasp the significance of anything that the people you are belittling have said. That is not their shortcoming but yours.

Ah ha, let see what your reasoning is...

I would put my money on those people you are condescendingly calling 'techies' to have a better grounding in business and economics than you,

I would put my money on that those 'techies' can certainly make a one line bourne shell script to calculate the "pi" number, but I don't think they are quite versed on business reality, you know, that thing that keeps "The Bet" running and the money flowing *today* and *tomorrow*.

You know, we can "bet" on whatever we whish, but that hardly makes a difference.

Converting an Accounting and ERP System to a different Accounting and ERP system just because someone feels compelled to change to a different technology is a monstrous undertaking for the office staff of a company

Straw man. "Just because someone feel compelled"??? Please, this is NOT a matter of personal preference, we are talking about VIABILITY. Check it out. UNIX is nice, and SCO had a UNIX. But they screwed up big time against Big Blue, and against several other major players, and lost it all (I REPEAT: AND LOST IT ALL). There is NO VIABILITY left in SCO. Period.

ANYONE who has ever done a chnange-over of a large system to another system knows it is a nightmare.

Yes, we know. But there are nightmares you NEED to undertake to get to a viable future. The longer you procrastinate undertaking the "nightmare", the worst.

I have headed up the expansion of the IT department from me to me and two others. In the interim the computer usage has expanded from one SCO server with 10 terminals to one SCO server(newer), 6 windows servers, 60 desktops, 8 Dumb Terminals for timeclock and load scanning usage, CAD computers, and Computers controlling Production Machines. In addition, we(the IT department) design, program, and build the electrical/electronic and pneumatic portions of robotic machines for Production use. We also put online a customer order entry system in the last quarter of 2007, that had taken a significant effort from one of the 3 of us for two years, along with a number of other staff people as required for data entry.

Your credentials are awsome. But your conclusions are bogus and self-misleading. That you managed to navigate through hell on board of the SCO ship does NOT make SCO any more viable.

All done within a 5 day week and from 7:00AM to 4:00PM Monday through Friday, 98% of the time. So we know about efficiency in work habits.

You can spare us your battle tales. Thank you. Now, lets focus on being competive in today's environment, with today's competition, with today's requierements.

one thing in all of this that stands out is the SCO SERVER which runs without complaint for very extended periods of time with no attention,

So what. So does MS-DOS and nobody would build projects today on MS-DOS.

taking care of generating faxes for confirmation to our customers that their order was put into the production queue to scheduling production to collecting timeclock information to collecting information as to what was loaded onto trucks to accounting to exporting information to production machines to sending direct deposit information to our bamk, all from one server. This is the technology you are deriding.

Wrong. Nobody is "deriding" *that* techonoly. We are just pointing out that the platform such technology is running ON is DEAD. Just migrate your super-custom super-efficient technology to a platform with a future and supported by major industry players whose third party products you will eventually need to use. That's all.

Rather than siting around justifying your existence by trying to stay on the cutting edge of technology, there could be ways to expand the role the IT department plays to include something other than just the technology. Dealing with just the normal IT department machines and technology must get boring.

What? Are you "the" MBA IT Specialist?? Well... we salute you!

In other words, SCO Group software has a vote from me for certain functions as long as they are a viable company.

*That* is the problem. They are NOT any more viable than Esperanto is as a World language. But you are free to hold on to your obsolete world conceptions. Just do not expect us to understand your Esperanto speeches.
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