Is there any hope at all left for floundering PC Unix vendor SCO?
The long embattled PC Unix vendor SCO has finally gotten the heave-ho from NASDAQ, some two months after filing for bankruptcy and three months after losing a crucial legal copyright struggle with Novell, a company that’s morphed over the years into a major distributor of Linux, a competing breed of Unix software that also runs on PCs. Starting yesterday, The SCO Group’s stock — previously traded under the symbol SCOX — no longer showed up in the NASDAQ listings. Public trading of shares of SCO has since resumed through alternate exchanges, though by mid-afternoon Friday, its shares were trading at $0.08 and falling. For some time, SCO has stirred a lot of rancor among many other vendors — as well as IT (information technology) business users — by waging lawsuits against Novell, IBM, and even Linux customers such as AutoZone, based on claims that these companies were improperly using software code owned by SCO. Yet for many years, SCO enjoyed its own highly loyal customer base, par
