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It was a good run
2011/12/04
As I explained in more detail at A Panda Post Mortem, this website has fallen out of favor with Google. Once hovering in the top 30-40,000 sites all across the Internet, it is now falling into obscurity.
The reason it was once popular was because it really was the best site for SCO Unix information. As SCO declined, I knew this site would suffer. I tried to transition to Mac and Linux, but there are far better places to get that and eventually Google stopped its long term love affair with my scribblings.
I now find that Google-Plus and HubPages are more effective places for me to write.
I'm not shutting this site down. I'll keep it running until traffic stops outright and every now and then there may be something that makes more sense here than in those other places. That won't be often, though.
So - it was a good run. From 1997 to now I have really enjoyed many of the conversations we have had here. Those conversations don't have to stop, of course: some of you are already exchanging ideas with me at G+ and HubPages. But this site will be rather sleepy going forward.
Thank you all again and I wish you a happy life. Come join me at those other places if you like and if not, maybe we will still see each other here every now and then.
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Sun Dec 4 18:57:57 2011: NickBarron
Such terrible news.
I don't use G+ or other things like that, so it is a big loss for me.
I have greatly enjoyed reading from this site and contributing. A real sad day.
Mon Dec 5 06:25:53 2011: MasoudAbdulWahab
Don't shutdown the site, it is still a great site for SCO lovers and as you know there are many SCO BOXs running around the globe.
Mon Dec 5 09:18:44 2011: ScottCarpenter
Hey, Tony -- I'll start following your Hub feed, and maybe one of these days will start using G+. Keep writing!
Mon Dec 5 12:24:01 2011: TonyLawrence
I will keep writing, though not necessarily the same sort of thing I would do here.
Mon Dec 5 12:31:04 2011: TonyLawrence
Masoud: I'm not shutting down the site. Didn't I say that? It won't shut down until I die and maybe not then.
But no, there are not many SCO boxes left and the vastly reduced traffic here shows that plainly.
Mon Dec 5 16:16:14 2011: BigDumbDinosaur
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But no, there are not many SCO boxes left and the vastly reduced traffic here shows that plainly.
And there will soon be one less. A long-time client of ours has pulled the trigger on replacing their SCO box with one of our Uni-FI Black Lightning Linux servers. Once that is done we'll have only one client left on OSR5, and they are almost ready to switch as well. With these two out of the way, the only OSR5 box we'll have left is our office file and print server...
As far as your site goes, Tony, it has been a valuable reference for many years. I suppose the changing Google rank was bound to occur as interest shifted away from SCO and toward other operating systems. I personally do not use Google for anything (I use Ixquick, which is far less intrusive and doesn't return scads of junk), so I'm not at all privy to just how Google decides whether you are one of the good guys. I'd say that what I've seen come up on Google back when I did use it (which was a number of years ago) tells me that they are more interested in dollars than content.
Speaking of good runs, I'm starting to scale back my own operation here. I've stopped taking any new clients and will soon be referring some existing clients to others for support. As soon as that last SCO box has been replaced by Linux I will also cut off the hardware side of the business. I'm getting too decrepit to wrestle with servers. <Grin>
I'd like to keep working indefinitely but my health issues are starting to get in the way. The time to scale back is now while I'm able to.
Sun Dec 11 14:52:43 2011: ed
http://www.s5h.net/
Shame - I don't like social network sites, they're too much of a bubble for me. Please duplicate articles that you write elsewhere so that I can still find them here.
Sun Dec 11 15:02:50 2011: TonyLawrence
Goigle doesn't like duplicated content. Neither G+ nor HubPages are social networking sites. Google might have thought that's what they were building, but it is actually something much different.
Finally, I'm not writing much about anything that is relevant here.
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