Novell: “We’re not even in the Unix business anymore.”
Novell start to discuss the implications of the legal victory they achieved against SCO on the 10th August.
In a decent summing up of opinion on infoworld by Elizabeth Montalbano, we get:
“We’re not interested in suing people over Unix,” Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry said. “We’re not even in the Unix business any more.”
And Novell’s own CMO John Dragoon gives a neat and concise diary of events that led to Friday’s momentous decision:
“This is a great outcome for Linux and the open source community. A big cloud has been lifted. Customers and developers can deploy and develop on Linux with increased confidence that SCO’s copyright allegations around Linux will be put to rest. “
Checking SCO’s stock quote tells us what the market really thinks: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=scox. Down to just 37c when I looked. That’s a fall of over 75% since market close on Friday and a market capitalisation of about $8m (or approx. £4m in Sterling).
I can’t see how SCO can remain a viable business for much longer. As an anonymous commentator wrote on a mailing list – Novell could buy them with spare change and that would be the end of that. Although it’s a bit of a waste of $8m I guess. There are plenty of other companies out there with that sort of cash to burn…
- Microsoft Corporation: $268.14B
- International Business Machines Corp. : $151.90B
- Hewlett-Packard Company: $122.69B
- Red Hat, Inc. : $4.12B
- Novell, Inc. : $2.26B
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.: $16.74B
- Oracle Corporation : $99.96B
