Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, a Cambridge, Mass.-based market research firm, said the interesting part about SCO’s announcement “is that it is solidly aimed at the mid-market–a space that has been slow to adopt Web services, when compared to the enterprise segment.” One of the reasons for this is that integration at the mid-market level is external–with suppliers, partners and customers–rather than internal, so security concerns have hindered mid-market adoption of Web services, he said.

Bloomberg’s ZapThink partner, Ronald Schmelzer agreed, but said a market used to external integration and mostly homogeneous systems sets up Microsoft as to claim the spoils.

“However, Linux is increasingly gaining traction in the SMB markets, and it is clear that SCO realizes that there is a market opportunity here,” Schmelzer said.

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