SCO - the slow demise

While I haven't been a fan of SCO since Openmail, their corporate strategy for making money does seem strange.  They are writing the book on "how to make friends and influence people" --- or maybe just the chapter on how to upset everybody and your friends.

Not only have they made threatening noises at SUN (probably one of the closest friends) by publicly telling them they can't open source Solaris --- even when the details of such a move are undefined/undecided/hot-air (well they have been talking about it for a few years now)  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/09/sco_nogpl_solaris/

But also, their revenue has tanked.  I think the line that summarise this CNet article for me is "its SCOsource licensing effort yielded only $11,000 in revenue at a cost of $4.5 million in expenses. " 

Though it is the line at the end that made me laugh the most.  "The company also announced on Thursday that it had notified the Berlin-Bremen, Stuttgart and Frankfurt Freiverkehr stock exchanges that its ticker symbol had been listed without the company's permission. SCO is asking the exchanges to remove the symbol."

SCO revenue takes a tumble The company's Unix licensing program costs a lot more than it brings in.
[via CNET News.com]