SCO scoops top influencer award for 'fear, uncertainty and doubt'

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 17 May 2004 at 13:37

Software Developer Times has awarded Unix company SCO top honours as an industry influence in this year's SD Times 100 list.

'No other IT topic inspires such fervent debate, fear, uncertainty and doubt,' reads the accolade for the awards, which were chosen on the basis of 'how much buzz it was generating' and whether it forced 'its competitors to respond to its initiatives' among other factors.

SCO headed up a new category for this year: influencers, and SD Times noted that 'the company's legal assaults on IBM and Linux users dominated 2003's tech headlines and shook up the open-source community.'

'SCO is honored to be named among the many influential companies that comprise the SD Times 100. We pride ourselves in the work we do to create world renowned Unix-based solutions designed by some of the most experienced and outstanding engineers in the industry,' said Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president and general manager, SCO's UNIX Division.

Although SCO stands alone in its category for being recognised for its legal activities, SD Times warned that 'Some of our choices will seem obvious-others may be surprising, even controversial.'

Other perhaps less controversial awards went to Wind River Systems in the Embedded and Mobile category and Eclipse in Tools and Environments.

Certainly if there's one way of getting an awards list in the news, it would be to include headline dominating SCO.