SCO a Zombie, Not Microsoft’s Latest Monster Deal, Feb 19, 2008

Last week I got a surprise call asking my opinion on whether the $100 million influx of funds was going to make a big difference in SCO’s future. All I could think was: “Damn, someone brought SCO back from the dead!?” I’ve since seen speculation that Microsoft, or specifically Bill Gates, is funding this personally and other insanity so I figured I’d weigh in on this non-news event.

The other day in my Open for Business blog, I bemoaned the beginning of the new year simply because it brings with it a plethora of pundits predicting what the new year will hold. Particularly irksome (to the cynic in me, I guess) are posts that declare the new year as “the year” for a particular technology.

Microsoft has had the word “evil,” as in “evil empire,” associated with its name for nearly two decades. Yet it has nearly unmatched positional power in the tech industry.

Is operating system preference a presidential predictor? Blogger Douglas Karr pondered the question over the weekend. He didn’t come up with a definitive answer, but he does predict that Linux will win the 2008 presidential election.