President and Chief Executive Officer of SCO, Darl McBride is responsible for the company's strategic direction and planning. He oversees all aspects of the company including engineering, support, marketing and sales.
A technology industry veteran, McBride has 19 years of executive management and leadership experience. Before joining SCO, McBride was the president of Franklin Covey's online planning business. Prior to that, McBride has been the CEO of PointServe, a workforce optimization software company; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of SBI and Company, a professional services company. While at the helm of these companies, McBride was responsible for raising more than $100 million in venture capital.
McBride has also been the senior vice president of IKON Office Solutions where he managed 4,000 employees and the buildup of a $500 million systems integration unit through numerous acquisitions, channel programs, and industry partnerships. From 1988 to 1996, he worked at networking leader Novell where he was responsible for growing Novell Japan's growth to more than $100 million in revenue. He concluded his tenure at Novell as vice president and general manager of Novell's Embedded Systems Division (NEST).
McBride holds a BS degree from Brigham Young University and received a masters degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is
the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This
battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell
proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO
Group, became a focus of this controversy when we filed a lawsuit against IBM
alleging that SCO’s proprietary Unix code has been illegally copied into
the free Linux operating system. In doing this we angered some in the Open
Source community by pointing out obvious intellectual property problems that
exist in the current Linux software development model.
This debate about Open Source software is healthy and beneficial. It offers
long-term benefits to the industry by addressing a new... (more)
President and Chief Executive Officer of SCO, Darl McBride is responsible for the company's strategic direction and planning. He oversees all aspects of the company including engineering, support, marketing and sales.
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