- Fri Jul 23 2004 SCO, BayStar resume squabbling
Stock-and-cash dispute settlement between Linux foe and its investor held up by unspecified dispute.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Thu Mar 11 2004 Investment firm confirms Microsoft link to SCO
Investment company BayStar Capital confirms ties between two Linux foes, saying that a Microsoft referral led to $50 million in BayStar funding for the SCO Group.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Thu Oct 16 2003 SCO gets $50 million investment
SCO Group, the company embroiled in legal action around Linux and Unix, announces a $50 million investment by BayStar Capital, marking a reversal of plans it discussed in May.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Fri May 7 2004 Canadian bank backs away from SCO
The Royal Bank of Canada sells two-thirds of its investment in the SCO Group to BayStar, giving the hedge fund a boost in its search for changes at the Unix company.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Tue Aug 31 2004 SCO to cap legal expenses
Lawyers to get bigger share of any settlement in Linux suits in exchange for billing less up front.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Tue May 4 2004 SCO cuts jobs to reach product profit
The SCO Group laid off a "small" number of employees late last week as part of an effort to make its Unix products group profitable, the company says.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Mon Nov 15 2004 Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationship
SCO's fight against Linux has conspiracy theorists buzzing over Microsoft's role in the affair. What are the facts?
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Thu Mar 4 2004 SCO: Leaked e-mail a 'misunderstanding'
The embattled Unix company says the author of a memo that connects Microsoft to $86 million in investments in SCO was mistaken.
Posted by Robert Lemos
- Thu Jun 10 2004 Revenue tumbles for Linux foe SCO
Maybe a major investor was right in saying the company should chase Linux users and drop Unix licensing.
Posted by Stephen Shankland and Dawn Kawamoto
- Tue Dec 23 2003 SCO opens new front in Linux war
SCO Group targets a new group in an effort to profit from what it says is illegal use of Unix intellectual property in Linux, but Novell claims it still holds copyrights.
Posted by Stephen Shankland