Caldera's buyout of SCO seems crazy in hindsight. As I understood the business, SCO made millions off channel sales. For instance, getting 10k out of a 100k d

Caldera's buyout of SCO seems crazy in hindsight. As I understood the business, SCO made millions off channel sales. For instance, getting 10k out of a 100k deal made between a local VAR and a customer. Caldera made millions off of going into SCO customer sites and cutting out either the VAR, SCO, or both. For instance, turn a 100k recurring cost into a 10k one. When Caldera bought SCO, it found itself with two extremely successful, wholly incompatible business models under the same roof. What were they thinking?