SCO has been inarticulate, incoherent and incompetent in their public statements ever since that first famous anti-Linux memo they had to withdraw.

A few years ago, I participated in an SCO on-line dealer conference to explain SCO's position on Linux. Not only was it totally incoherent, the visuals were available only to those participating using Microsoft Internet Explorer and Office - talk about brain dead!

Caldera has been little better much of the time, and has a history of expressing things in exactly the wrong words. Red Hat's Robert Young could say "per seat licensing" phrased to be acceptable to the enthusiasts, and Caldera's Ransom Young could say "free ISOs" phrased to enrage the Linux crowd.

The combined company now leans more to SCO incoherence. They desperately need to establish clearly to the buying public what value comes with their rather pricy United Linux distribution, but to date they have not done so.

SCO needs to hire some very skilled communications people, but technical people generally don't see the value in that, so I'm not expecting a whole lot of improvement.