UNIX business remained profitable?

Message ID: 270321
Posted By: walterbyrd
Posted On: 2005-06-01 20:25:00
Subject: UNIX business remained profitable?

>> Our core UNIX business remained profitable in the second quarter as expected, and we increased revenue over the prior quarter as a result of improved performance across all geographies<<

How is scox's unix business profitable? It wasn't profitable before the lawsuits, why is it profitable now?

Message ID: 270329
Posted By: atul666
Posted On: 2005-06-01 20:45:00
Subject: Re: UNIX business remained profitable?

It's "profitable" because they've been laying people off left and right, so expenses have gone down. They've probably moved as many remaining expenses as possible out of the Unix column, to make the numbers look good. After all, isn't that what accounting is for? To express one's boundless creativity?

OldSCO was clinging to the idea there was a future in the Unix business, so they were reluctant to lay off developers.

If SCO was an honest company, I'd say they were making a logical and inevitable move in response to decreased demand for their Unix products. But I don't think SCO management is capable of rational decisionmaking like that. They're only doing it to temporarily juice up their Unix numbers, in order to lure in gullible new victims, er, I mean, investors.

Message ID: 270330
Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2005-06-01 20:50:00
Subject: Re: UNIX business remained profitable?

<<
If SCO was an honest company, I'd say they were making a logical and inevitable move in response to decreased demand for their Unix products. But I don't think SCO management is capable of rational decisionmaking like that. They're only doing it to temporarily juice up their Unix numbers, in order to lure in gullible new victims, er, I mean, investors.
>>

There don't seem to be any. I mean at this point, the volume, and the number of registered share owners is so low, I doubt there are any retail investors. Except for the "short" variety.

Hard to say what they are trying for now. But I just don't see it as new investors. That is over.

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