SCO and Caldera were a merger that should never have happened. SCO made all of its money off of line items in very expensive deals done by channel sales guys w

SCO and Caldera were a merger that should never have happened. SCO made all of its money off of line items in very expensive deals done by channel sales guys who integrated complex products. Caldera made all of its money by going into shops with SCO-based point-of-sales or industrial control or what-have-you, and cutting the integrators/resellers out of the loop. Putting those two businesses under one roof was doomed to failure.