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tcliii@netcom.com (Tom Lindamood) writes:

>> Is the new management team guiding the company in the right direction?

>What direction?  They announce ODT - the D is Desktop and then surrender
>by announcement the desktop to MS Windoze.  They provide a compiler (for
>a price) which will allow you cross compile your application for UNIX
>or DOZ.  They then send to their dealers, who are required the have
>an operational SCO unix platform, their third party products guide
>(you know, applications) in MS Windoze format.  To boot, ODT can run
>windoze but in the infinite wisdom of new grand poobas, the guide
>requires a 386 processor.  IT CANNOT BE RUN ON THEIR OWN OPERATING
>SYSTEM.  Yet had they used thier operating system as a start point,
>the guide would have run on both platforms.(SCO Propoganda)  Actions
>like this lend little credability to their committment or knowledge
>of the marketplace.

There was a BIG clatter about the product guide fiasco in biz.sco.general
several months ago.  I was one of the people screaming loudly about the
apparent stupidity of having a SCO Directory not available for running under
SCO.  It was indicated that perhaps they were going to work
on a Unix compatible version..... but still!!!!  I think all companies make
stupid mistakes sometimes (like the above), the big question is how do they deal
with it and/or correct them.  I have heard nothing on the topic since then;
I have crossposted this to biz.sco.general, perhaps somebody else knows
how this turned out.

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