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A new press release from SCO is always news at Groklaw. And when it announces that Darl McBride is heading to Russia to share the stage with Kevin Mitnik, well, how can I keep it from you? It jumps from News Picks to full coverage. Mr. McBride will be talking about Unix and how it is the "preferred choice for systems that must run flawlessly" and expressing SCO's "continued commitment to the Russian and emerging markets". McBride is quoted as saying, "The application server environment of choice for mission-critical
communications and computing infrastructure in fast-growing, emerging markets
is UNIX," said McBride. Hmm. That or I'm thinking maybe GNU/Linux for the emerging market, it being free and Free and all. Also, no one sues you later over contract interpretations. You know, GNU/Linux, like Google and Amazon run on. And Wall Street, speaking of mission critical. Can you imagine if Eben Moglen announced he was heading to Russia to push Free Software? What would the headlines be like? There does seem to be an imbalance in the media universe.
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Darl McBride, President and CEO, The SCO Group to Deliver Keynote Entitled
'The UNIX Community Makes BRIC Tick' at Interop Moscow
LINDON, Utah, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc.
("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX), a leading provider of UNIX(R) software technology for
distributed, embedded and network-based systems, today announced that Darl
McBride, SCO's president and CEO will deliver a keynote address at Interop
Moscow, June 23 at 12:00 p.m. The conference and keynote will take place at
the Crocus Exposition Center.
In his address entitled, "The UNIX Community Makes BRIC Tick," McBride
will present a thought-provoking examination of the current and future state
of IT requirements and solutions in key emerging and fast-growing markets such
as Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). He will also demonstrate an
exciting new technology that enables systems and solutions providers in the
UNIX community to deliver the lowest possible total cost of ownership across a
wide range of solutions, from single-purpose kiosks to the largest shared
servers.
"The application server environment of choice for mission-critical
communications and computing infrastructure in fast-growing, emerging markets
is UNIX," said McBride. "And now, UNIX is also leading the way in the next
generation of advanced solutions, including touch-less commerce, lights-out
operations, and wireless digital services."
Interop Moscow is the largest corporate IT exhibition in Russia. It
focuses on business-to-business solutions and attracts a large international
audience. SCO will exhibit in booth number 089 throughout the show. SCO has
had a presence in Russia for many years and Interop Moscow presents an ideal
platform for SCO to demonstrate its continued commitment to the Russian and
emerging markets.
UNIX is the product of thirty-plus years of development work by some of
the brightest software engineers in the industry. Together, they have helped
make high-end computers more powerful, economical, reliable, and manageable.
UNIX is the preferred choice for systems that must run flawlessly with little
supervision, constant up-time and reliability even in the most demanding
computing environments. Systems from The SCO Group and its UNIX partners,
including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and numerous others enable the
operation of the data and voice networks, power grids, financial markets,
banking networks, transportation and logistics systems that are making
significant growth possible in the BRIC markets.
McBride is among several other keynote speakers at Interop Moscow
including Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple, Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, Jake
MacLeod, Principal VP and CTO, Bechtel, Kevin Mitnick, Mitnick Security
Consulting LLC, and Bruce Perens, VP Sourcelabs and co-founder of Open Source
Initiative. For more information on Interop Moscow visit http://www.interop.ru.
About SCO
The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX) is a leading provider of UNIX software
technology for distributed, embedded and network-based systems, offering SCO
OpenServer for small to medium business, UnixWare for enterprise applications,
and Me Inc. for digital network services. SCO's highly innovative and
reliable solutions help millions of customers grow their businesses everyday,
from SCO OpenServer on main street to UnixWare on Wall Street, and beyond.
SCO owns the core UNIX operating system, originally developed by AT&T/Bell
Labs and is the exclusive licensor to UNIX-based system software providers.
Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of thousands of
resellers and developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized
support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO
products and services, visit http://www.sco.com.
SCO, SCO OpenServer and the associated SCO logo, are trademarks or
registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
UNIX and UnixWare are registered trademarks of The Open Group. All other
brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify
products or services of, their respective owners.
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| Authored by: FrankH on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:03 PM EST |
| Because even PJ isn't perfect :-) [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:04 PM EST |
| Maybe he is preparing to defect to avoid future legal problems here ... [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:04 PM EST |
It would be 'Communist OS heads to a former communist country'! You can bet on
the media to draw the worst possible implications from everything - especially,
if they are taking a retainer from Microsoft
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| Authored by: FrankH on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:06 PM EST |
With lickable clinks. If the Reverend Spooner were alive today he would be suing
me for copyright infringement.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:11 PM EST |
Darl goes to Russia. Ah, but will he come back?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:15 PM EST |
| Can we force them to keep him? [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: webster on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:16 PM EST |
1. Who suggested to the apparatchicks at Interop Moscow that they have a
lightning rod like Darl as a keynote speaker? Might it have been the Globe
tipster?
1A. Will he take questions? If he takes questions, will he answer?
2. Is he really a keynote speaker or is this a sheen put on his attendance by
spinsters from SCOland? How long will he speak and will he be sharing the head
table with a dozen others?
3. In case he stays is there an extradition treaty with Russia?
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webster
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:24 PM EST |
I wonder if Darl will have a sit down with Steve, Bruce and the others.
Darl definitely seems to be the lightweight on this bill.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:27 PM EST |
I think Bruce Perens is a far more visible leader of the Open Source community
than Eben Moglen. So, if none of the negative press headlines you anticipate
show up, I suspect you might want to think the "imbalance in the media
universe."
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| Authored by: Bill The Cat on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:31 PM EST |
| Having been to Russia many times, I know that you can purchase just about any
pirated software, including Unix, on almost any street corner. Pirated software
is the norm over there as well as in most of the other CIS countries like
Ukraine. Also, some of the best viruses as well as anti-virus software (e.g.
Kaspersky) comes from Russia. I
like Kaspersky because it doesn't require IE to function. Anyway, a friend of
mine is a programmer there and all he uses is Linux or Solaris. I'm sure, based
on our conversations, that he never paid for a legitimate copy of either
one. Every family I know of in Ukraine and Russia use pirated software. Why?
Because it is easy to acquire, cheap and it works. In fact, pirated software in
Russia and Ukraine is so popular that it is virtually impossible to find a
vendor who sells legitimate software. Good Luck Darl trying to get business
from them. Maybe somebody will buy one copy but they'll be selling thousands
within a week for maybe $1. ---
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| Authored by: Chris Lingard on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:33 PM EST |
Here is
Interop Moscow
2006
They mention Open Source there.
Open Source
products are preferable because of their price advantage, compatibility with
different kinds of software and infinite product support.
But
no mention of SCO on their front page
And in a long list of
participants
is SCO
Top managers of SCO are going to introduce their
technologies based on OpenServer and UnixWare especially and only for Interop
visitors.
Hardly a Keynote, just two lines, so they have hired
some stall; and are going do some sales talk. "Please buy my old system,
please".
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:39 PM EST |
I am overcome with astonishment! I can't imagine anyone less qualified to make
a contribution to the conference in this role! McBride is simply not a business
leader, not at all a scholar, not at all an organizer. He doesn't belong on
this stage.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:53 PM EST |
| Interestingly Interop has NewYork and LasVegas shows, but Darl speaks in Russia.
And SCO does not appear to be listed as an exhibitor at either North American
show.
Schedule
Darl to speak over
lunch 12-1pm
23.06.06
Biography of da
man
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As President and Chief Executive
Officer of SCO, Darl McBride is responsible for the company's strategic
direction and planning. He oversees all aspects of the company including
engineering, support, marketing and sales.
A technology industry veteran,
McBride has 23 years of executive management and leadership experience. Before
joining SCO, McBride was the president of Franklin Covey's online planning
business. Prior to that, McBride has been the CEO of PointServe, a workforce
optimization software company; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of SBI and
Company, a professional services company. While at the helm of these companies,
McBride was responsible for raising more than $100 million in venture
capital.
McBride has also been the senior vice president of IKON Office
Solutions where he managed 4,000 employees and the buildup of a $500 million
systems integration unit through numerous acquisitions, channel programs, and
industry partnerships. From 1988 to 1996, he worked at networking leader Novell
where he was responsible for growing Novell Japan's growth to more than $100
million in revenue. He concluded his tenure at Novell as vice president and
general manager of Novell's Embedded Systems Division (NEST).
McBride holds
a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University and received a
Masters degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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| Authored by: KarlJorgensen on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 12:57 PM EST |
[for those of you in doubt: BRIC = Brazil, Russia, India &
China...]
Unix makes those countries 'tick'? I doubt whether that is
really the case. But I'm sure that Darl would love it if it was. If their
(tenuous) ladder theory of copyright holds water and he 'owns' linux in the same
fashion, then he might be onto something. But my imagination doesn't stretch
that far.
Still, the only tick I see is Mr McBride! [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: rsi on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 01:04 PM EST |
I have to wonder if SCO and McBride had tried their lawsuits in Russia, instead
of the US, how much jail time would he be facing right now?! ;^)[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 01:41 PM EST |
Maybe Darl thinks Russia doesn't have internet access so they don't know what's
going on in the USA, Australia, etc. Or maybe he just wants a retirement home
there...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 02:02 PM EST |
Darl has two obvious purposes in this trip:
1) Maintain the facade that SCO is still a software company.
2) See the world at the expense of those who are foolish enough to hold stock in
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| Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 02:03 PM EST |
He will also demonstrate an exciting new technology that enables systems and
solutions providers in the UNIX community to deliver the lowest possible total
cost of ownership across a wide range of solutions, from single-purpose kiosks
to the largest shared servers.
Its Linux!!!
With SCO Source
of cause.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 02:29 PM EST |
Speaking as someone who has worked with both SCO UNIX and Linux (and tried to
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| Authored by: Sunny Penguin on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 03:29 PM EST |
I wonder what would happen if Darl sent letters threatening the Russian Mob.
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"Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the
best tactician."
~ George Custer (1839-1876)
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| Authored by: emperor on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 03:42 PM EST |
Welp, I'll have to take a bit of issue with this one...
>Hmm. That or I'm thinking maybe GNU/Linux for the emerging market, it being
free and Free and all.
Well, it may be "Free", but frankly, if I'm running a mission critical
environment, and I'm in an emerging market, which implies I may be running on
limited start up capital and therefore cannot afford support issues during any
possible downtime, nothing is really "Free." You'd have to argue with
me long and hard to get me to change to Linux boxen over say AIX or Solaris.
>Also, no one sues you later over contract interpretations. You know,
GNU/Linux, like Google and Amazon run on. And Wall Street, speaking of mission
critical.
Business is business, just because Linux is "Free" doesn't mean you
may not experience costs related to using it. You may download Linux for free,
but you're paying someone for the hardware you run it on, the datacenter you
house it in, the bandwidth you host it on, and if you're running a mission
critical environment, you either have to hire a redundant support staff, with an
extremely high level of expertise, or purchase a support contract from a Linux
distro vendor or a dedicated support company. Maybe all the above. This all
provides opportunity for risk from employee/wage/contract disputes and has an
associated cost.
Just because it's Darl McBride spouting, doesn't mean it's not true. While that
may be a hard one for most of us out there to accept, it is within the realm of
possibility, actually reality, as he demonstrates with that statement.
I'd have to wholeheartedly agree with him in this limited context.
While Linux is definitely a viable alternative, depending on your experience,
and preferences, the statement "The application server environment of
choice for mission-critical communications and computing infrastructure in
fast-growing, emerging markets is UNIX," is certainly true.
As I have extensive experience with all the major UNIX flavors, and various
Linux distros including RedHat, CentOS, SuSe, slackware(long ago), and the BSD
variants, all in mission critical environments, it certainly is for me.
roman
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -
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| Authored by: Steve Martin on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 03:49 PM EST |
Is this the very same Darl McBride that allegedly wrote letters to members of
the Congress of the U.S. telling them that Linux was a threat to national
security? And now he's peddling UNIX to BRIC? I'm aghast, simply AGHAST!
(Huffs and puffs)
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| Authored by: DaveJakeman on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 04:01 PM EST |
Hardly any software is actually bought in Russia. It's either downloaded and
cracked, or downloaded and Free.
He could try selling coal in Newcastle, or sand to the Arabs. That would keep
him off the streets.
Maybe he's hoping there will be a few Chinese there - the place that Groklaw
cannot reach.
But then again, maybe it's just the perfect pastime for him. It's not as if he
has a thriving business to run - the stats are in freefall and only the PIPE
support machine keeps it alive. A few Russian contacts might be useful - you
never know when you might need them in a hurry. He may as well get out and
about and mingle with a few like-minded cri^H^H^H people.
That said, I don't think we'll miss him in his absence.
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| Authored by: blacklight on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 04:13 PM EST |
Darl the Snarl is headed to Russia! I hear Siberia is lovely, sunny and
post-card pretty in the winter, that its prison camps offer first-class
accomodations and that the tales of brutal prison guards are just malicious
rumor mongering, so I hope that Darl the Snarl gets to spend an extended
vacation in Siberia.
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Know your enemies well, because that's the only way you are going to defeat
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 04:14 PM EST |
Darl seems to be a bit behind times. Or at least his schedule, provided by
Microsoft, may be. Brazil is already a lost cause for MS and other propriatary
OSes, they saw the light and went over to the bright side. Want some proof? Read
this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3445805.stm
(I read somewhere that the brazilian government wants to make Linux
"the" OS of the country but i can't find a link to proof it, sorry)
And China is even more Pro-Linux. They even got their own state-created
distribution named "Red Flag Linux".
India ist doing all the hotline stuff for the Fortune 500, including IBM. It
seems logical that the average IT-person in India knows as much about Linux as
he/she does about Windows.
So Darl is in exactly the right place: Russia, the only one of the BRIC nations
that has not (more or less openly) embraced Linux. And a country that does not
honor copyrights etc. very much (an old tradition from the cold war). Good luck
selling anything copyable there, Darl ;-)
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| Authored by: Latesigner on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 04:35 PM EST |
I can only wonder who will be in the audience.
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| Authored by: webster on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 05:01 PM EST |
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Here is the link to
Interop
Moscow. At this site they have a sponsor's page which is curiously not
filled out yet. I'm sure if IBM were considering a sponsorship, they would not
like to stumble onto supporting their main antagonist. Watch out for other
Linux companies.
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webster
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 05:40 PM EST |
Talking about a parallel universe here, where they didn't hire Darl, the real
Santa Cruz guys moved with the product and kept developing it, the litigation
never happened, etc.
I know BSD Unix is still being used in products (my company just bought a brand
new appliance-type system that uses it) because you can allegedly hit it with
the electronic equivalent of a sledgehammer and it just shrugs it off.
And Linux is what you'd use if you want cutting edge.
So could SCO be selling something useful and profitable, in between, if things
had gone differently?
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| Authored by: TheBlueSkyRanger on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 06:47 PM EST |
Hey, everybody!
I read that and had a flashback to the days when I read Dilbert every day.
There's a strip from early in the run where Dogbert is walking down the street
and a Russian spy asks him for the tech documents Dilbert is working on.
Dogbert promptly agrees. At home, Dilbert asks him, "You're going to
cripple what?"
Dogbert: The Evil Empire. Just trust me on this.
The thought of SCO trying to bring tech to Russia seems pretty simillar.
Dobre utka,
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| Authored by: blacklight on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 09:06 PM EST |
"McBride will present a thought-provoking examination of the current and
future state of IT requirements and solutions in key emerging and fast-growing
markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC)."
Speaking about provoking thought, I do recall that Darl the Snarl made a
statement a couple of years ago that he had a security concern about UNIX going
to India - and presumably Russia and the PRC as well.
And now Darl the Snarl makes a lovely pirouette and wants to push his SCOG UNIX
crack drug on India, Russia, the PRC and Brazil.
Amazing transformation, even though I say so myself. Was Darl the Snarl carpet
bombed on the road to Damascus?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 10:39 PM EST |
In the press release, under the description of SCO it says:
"SCO
owns the core UNIX operating system, originally developed by AT&T/Bell Labs
and is the exclusive licensor to UNIX-based system software
providers."
This isn't exactly true, is it? - or am I misinformed...?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 11:02 PM EST |
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| Authored by: David Dudek on Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 12:53 AM EST |
From the previous comments, I now see why SCO is in Russia. They now have an
endless supply of defendants for their business model - LITIGATION!
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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 07:58 AM EST |
What on earth is he doing going to Russia with Darl?
I would have thought they'd be best of enemies by now!
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