FP was not at SCOForum... why not?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Bill Campbell propounded (on Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:00:41PM -0700):
>| On Wed, Aug 10, 2005, John Esak wrote:
>| >
>| >Does anyone know why FP Technologies was not at SCOForum?  Bud had said in
>| >the last FP Room meeting that they would be there, showing the biometric
>| >stuff.
>| >
>| >We sent Rick out to the forum, and he said they were listed in the
>| >"neighborhood" stuff, but their table was empty. BackupEDGE and FacetCorp
>| >were there, but no FP Tech. What happened?
>| 
>| I expect that FP didn't see an economic incentive to attend.  Trade shows
>| are often an expensive waste of time and effort under the best of
>| circumstances, and SCO is far from the best of circumstances today.
>
>Well, they must have at one point intended to appear, otherwise they
>would not have been listed as a sponsoring vendor in the program booklet
>and on one of the slides shown in the general Session, nor shown on the
>booth diagram in the program booklet.

I haven't seen any documents from SCO for Forum this year.  Somehow my name
seems to have been deleted from their mailing lists, or perhaps their mail
servers are blocked here as a result of prior spamming from their marketing
group who were sending a ton of messages to long-dead addresses.

>| I went to almost all the SCO Fora at Santa Cruz except for the first one,
>| but I haven't gone since they moved to Vegas.  If I'm going to take most of
>| a week off working, it's going to be to go to an event that is relevant to
>| the majority of my business (and I can count the number of my customers
>| still running OpenServer on the fingers of one hand).
>
>Have you run OpenServer 6.0.0?

5.0.6a is the most recent version I've run and have in-house.

We have about three customers still running OpenServer, all with rather
ancient applications which are probably close to end of life.  Generally
the SCO system runs one application, and everything else in their business
is now running some combination of Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Windows.

The vast majority of our OpenServer customers have migrated to Linux or
FreeBSD systems (those that haven't left for the Evil Empire(TM) so I don't
see them now).

Bill
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