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Tuesday, June 17, 2003SCO vs IBM
 In an action likley to unsettle the corporate server marketplace and bolster the sales of Microsoft's OS SCO Claims UNIX ownership and goes after IBM with lawsuits and injunctions to prevent IBM shipping AIX, and from any IBM customer using the operating system. There are two conspiracy theories to cover this one, either it's a desparate attempt by the SCO management team to get IBM to buy it, considering the leagal bills to fight this lawsuit and the potential risks it would be the cheapest option for IBM. Or its a subversive attempt by Microsoft to unsettle the UNIX / Linux marketplace to such a degree that corporate buyers who may just have favoured moving to Linux now back off and stick with what appears to be a safe option Windows 2003.
Related Links
CBR Online article by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM's news pages, nothing here though
SCO Investor relations announcment and the other one
posted by Robert Campbell 9:02 AM
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