SCO Loses, and Loses Big
The IT industry’s version of Lindsay Lohan, The SCO Group, was dealt a potentially mortal blow on Friday (which is covered just about everywhere). Even Daniel Lyons, the recently outed Fake Steve Jobs and SCO supporter, posted a “SCO is screwed” post at Forbes (interestingly enough, it wasn’t a mea culpa, and gave no indication of his previous predictions and musings as to why SCO would win).
As a result, the market yanked over 2/3rds of SCO’s market cap, and they’re now trading at about half a buck.
Why is it in lbdigest? The vast majority of current load balancing product runs on an open source operating system, and the vast majority of them run Linux. F5’s BIG-IP used to run BSDI, but Wind River killed the BSDI product line, and F5 eventually made the switch to Linux for it’s V9 product line. Most of the WOC (WAN Optimization Controller) makers (including Cisco), run Linux as the base operating system.
The Linux Virtual Server project is also the heart, or part of the heart, of many of the load balancing products out there, especially for the Value Market.
So for load balancing in general, this is pretty good news.
