CNET has a story about UC Irvine buying an IBM supercomputer to run climate change models and it has some juicy quotes about Linux and SCO from Charlie Zender, assistant professor of Earth system science. I just couldn't resist.

The Irvine researchers would prefer Linux, he said. "If we can get the same throughput...then it makes more sense to go with Linux, because the support costs drop dramatically and because the users are more familiar with Linux--we all have Linux on our laptops and workstations," Zender said.

Zender goes on to note how Linux isn't quite up to snuff for their needs but hope 2.6 will be.

About SCO:

SCO asserts that IBM breached its Unix contract with SCO by moving Unix intellectual property into Linux; says IBM's license to ship AIX is no longer valid; and seeks license fees from Linux users.

"It's a laughable lawsuit. It will certainly be resolved sometime in the next decade, and they'll be exposed for the frauds that they are," Zender said.