tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24382383.post116728547867104433..comments2009-07-09T13:22:02.314-07:00supermikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318755093033009059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24382383.post-1167601409073018482006-12-31T14:43:00.000-07:002006-12-31T14:43:00.000-07:00

"had that chance when they owned XENIX"<BR/><BR/>Microsoft owned Xenix and spun off a company called Santa Cruz Operation with this intellectual property rather than integrate it with Windows NT. Caldera then snatched up this failing company after it was floundering for a few years. Ray Noorda, a really cool guy, ran the company and it was going off in a great direction. But then he got

supermikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318755093033009059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24382383.post-1167453255351287642006-12-29T21:34:00.000-07:002006-12-29T21:34:00.000-07:00

Patently ludicrous. MSFT will never buy SCO, and it will never build a new OS over a UNIX. They had that chance waaay back when in the day when they owned XENIX, and they elected to make Windows NT instead. <BR/><BR/>SCO is a bad investment for anyone. Linux and open-source Solaris have absolutely *killed* any reason for the OS's existence at all, save for a few legacy apps which might be

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