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As far as I know - which isn't very far! - Microsoft started to support SCO only after they had dragged IBM to court. SCO had pretty much bet the future of the
by krylon 5y ago
As far as I know - which isn't very far! - Microsoft started to support SCO only after they had dragged IBM to court.
SCO had pretty much bet the future of the company on their and IBM's joint Itanium Unix, and when IBM pulled out of the project, SCO was rather screwed[0]. Suing IBM for breach of contract was a sensible decision, as far as I can tell.
[0] Considering what a phenomenal failure Itanium became, I suspect they were screwed either way.
- ghaff 5y agoVery different case and fact pattern of course, but HP won a $3B lawsuit against Oracle because of the latter dropping Itanium support. Fun personal fact. Apparently HP actually used an analyst report I wrote as one of their exhibits in that case.