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McBride Letter to Customers and Partners - We're Not Dead Yet
Posted on Friday, January 12 2007 @ 17:21:32 EST by linuxwiz |
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SCO has just filed an 8K with the SEC that has attached to it a letter from Darl McBride to customers and partners.
I take this as the SCO answer to Novell's statement
in a recent court filing that bankruptcy for SCO is inevitable. The
letter says, "The vantage point of the CEO’s office provides a
perspective that others are not giving." First, they intend to continue
to develop, sell, maintain and support their UNIX products. Me Inc. is
bringing them new customers, he writes. As for the legal front, SCO has
had some setbacks, he acknowledges, but "the rumors of our death have
been greatly exaggerated." Their legal expenses should be less next
year.
Dear SCO Customers and Partners:
As 2006 has come to a close and we begin a new year, I want to provide
you with the CEO’s update on our products and our business. The vantage
point of the CEO’s office provides a perspective that others are not
giving.
First and foremost, on behalf of our employees, stockholders and
numerous worldwide partners, I want to personally thank each of you for
your business and your loyalty to our products. SCO is committed to
enhancing and innovating our product lines and seeing them evolve. In
recent years we have provided you with key new releases of UnixWare
7.1.4 and OpenServer 6. We are proud of our UNIX product heritage,
including its performance, stability and security and we will continue
to develop, sell, maintain, and support our UNIX products for our
customers.
We continue to work with hardware system providers to certify many of
their servers with the latest SCO UNIX offerings. New hardware
certifications are updated on a weekly basis from systems provided by
Acer, DELL, Fujitsu-Siemens, HCL, HP, Intel and many others. These
vendors continue to certify their systems for SCO UNIX because
customers continue to require the reliability, security and performance
that SCO OpenServer and UnixWare offer. This gives you, our customers,
a broader choice of hardware to choose from.
In addition to our UNIX business, it’s been encouraging to see the
innovations taking place with our Me Inc. mobile technologies. Our
mobile technologies are attracting new customers, while at the same
time providing our existing customers with a way to use their
applications in a mobile business environment.
Our Me Inc. mobile technologies are helping customers in significant
ways. Products like Shout and Shout Postcard are helping people
communicate in innovative and productive ways. HipCheck helps companies
remotely manage and control their IT systems. The anticipated
Day-Timers Mobile solution will help increase personal productivity.
These new mobile solutions are made possible through our new Me Inc.
Mobility Server, which is the back-end server technology that does much
of the heavy lifting to make mobile phones substantially more powerful
and useful. This provides our customers with a richer mobile experience
and a greater affinity for our products.
Our efforts to protect our intellectual property continue through the
legal system. We continue to believe in the merits of our cases with
IBM and Novell and look forward to a successful resolution of those
claims. Although we have had a few setbacks in the court
proceedings, important and significant claims remain in the case. In
other words, to paraphrase a line from Mr. Twain, the rumors of our
death have been greatly exaggerated.
We recognize we have invested heavily in protecting our intellectual
property. While we expect to continue incurring legal expenses in 2007,
our expectation is that those expenses will be less than they have been
in prior years. Some of the larger expenses related to IBM discovery,
expert witness and technical expert reports are now behind us. With
these expenditures behind us, the outlook for the Company’s cash
expenditures for the upcoming fiscal year is in a very manageable
position.
We are committed to operating our UNIX business on a cash flow positive
basis and we will make any necessary adjustments in our business in
2007 to accomplish that. With the combination of our existing UNIX
business coupled with our new Me Inc. mobile products and services, I
believe SCO is positioned to see improved results during this fiscal
year.
We are honored to call you our customers and partners and we look
forward to earning your business every day. As time permits, please
stay in touch with me and let me know how we can better serve you. I
look forward to reporting our progress to you throughout the coming
year.
Warm regards,
Darl McBride
President and CEO
The SCO Group, Inc.
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