Red Hat seems to have done a pretty good job of signing up the former SCO channel, so people who still have old SCO systems can just go back to the company that sold them SCO.

I don't feel sorry for any of SCO's customers. Who really thought they were going to beat IBM?
Sco tried to use Fear to manipulate customers and most saw them for what they were.. a fraud/Pretender. InfoWorld, if you really want to increase readership call the SCOsource, Darl Mcbride, and line up an interview to discuss his personal "Business Continuity" plan. I know Novell and IBM won't hire him.

Yes, but keep in mind SCO had customers long before Darl was calling the shots and made its foray into litigation.

I'm not particularly interested in hearing SCO's comments on the subject, but perhaps others might be.

--Zack

"this may hurt SCO customers even worse."

The lack of merit in SCO's shakedown scheme has been apparent for a very long time. If I were an IT manager for a company that has been a "SCO customer", then I would not haver been doing my job if I did not spend a great part of the past couple years figuring out how to extricate my employer from this stinking liability.

Now if I somehow managed to miss all of this and SCO's collapse comes as a big surprise, then I think I would deserve it if my boss took me out to the loading dock to be shot.

Three things I would like to point out.
1. The company we are all discussing is really Caldera under a different name. They bought SCO and then broke it. We should feel sad for the demise (but not yet the death) of a great name in IT but not for the greedy company that took them over.
2. SCO hasn't gone anywhere yet, they are still there and still provide support so there is no great rush to migrate yet but everyone should have plans in place. If your business runs well with SCO and has been stable for years there is no need to get off it yet. If you were looking to move forward anyway then of course now is the time to say goodbye to SCO.
3. Most people have no doubts that there is a pile of UNIX code in Linux and that there have been breaches is copyright all over the place. What the judge says is that it isn't SCO that own the code so thay can't take companies to court over these breaches. Watch what happens next as there could be an interesting future (medium to long term) for Linux if Novell, as teh judge says, owns UNIX. Novell with the backing of IBM could try to capitalise on this; they will just be more subtle than SCO.

THP says: "Three things I would like to point out."

Too bad that only #1 is anywhere close to being valid.

"Most people have no doubts that there is a pile of UNIX code in Linux...."

My, haven't we heard that stinker a lot? "Most people" LOL. Delusion? Lie? FUD? All three? Hard to tell.