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SCO Group: Its future is all used up
Jul. 22, 2008
More bad news in court for The SCO Group, which is good news for the industry, writes columnist Scott Bradner.
SCO Group: Mini-Me trying to be Darth Vader
Aug. 14, 2007
Sometime before March 2003 The SCO Group decided that making products that people might want to buy was passé and decided to get into the “business” of filing lawsuits instead. Their first target was IBM but they soon ...
SCO suitor vows to keep up Unix copyright war
Feb. 15, 2008
The private equity firm that has offered to pump up to $100 million into SCO thinks court rulings against the vendor in its highly publicized Unix copyright lawsuits "don't make any sense" and it believes those rulings ...
SCO gets $100 million from private equity firm
Feb. 14, 2008
Embattled SCO Operations Thursday reached an agreement with a private equity firm that plans to provide the vendor as much as $100 million and take SCO private.
Microsoft: still a business of threats?
Jul. 29, 2008
For years Microsoft has been claiming that Linux has been stealing its intellectual property rights, and there's no sign that the company will stop threatening Linux users with patent problems.
SCO and just desserts
Jul. 17, 2008
SCO is in Chapter 11 and now must pay Novell over $2.5 million. Are we getting near to the end of the story?
SCO Group: Prolonging death or what?
Feb. 19, 2008
Earlier this year, it looked like The SCO Group was going down for the count. It had lost a key decision in its suit against Novell, declared bankruptcy and was quickly running out of money.
SCO goes private; Spam targets Hillary campaign
Feb. 15, 2008
SCO goes private; Spam targets Hillary campaign
Trial set to determine what SCO owes Novell
Jan. 16, 2008
Novell will head to court this April to find out what it is owed, if anything, by SCO, which had been trying to earn royalties from Unix code it did not own.
With bankruptcy, SCO now facing Nasdaq delisting
Sep. 19, 2007
Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday.
SCO CEO: Even if court bids fail, we will survive
Aug. 08, 2005
The SCO Group believes it will still have a viable business even if the company loses its courtroom battles, according to the vendor's chief executive officer. In support of that claim, he said that SCO's Unix business ...
News briefs: Ebbers to be sentenced Wednesday
Jul. 11, 2005
Also: SCO, IBM ramble toward court; Google among investors in BPL; Microsoft to release patches; Alltel ordered to sell off assets; Business Objects off the hook
SCO aims to reinvent itself through mobility
Aug. 07, 2006
In recent years The SCO Group has been best known for its costly and controversial licensing dispute over Unix intellectual property. But SCO's leader said the company is in the process of reinventing itself into a ...
IBM subpoenas Microsoft, Sun and HP in SCO case
Feb. 23, 2006
The long-running legal battle between The SCO Group and IBM over source code ownership could uncover some interesting relationships, after IBM requested this week that HP, Microsoft, Sun and BayStar Capital turn over ...
SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west'
Oct. 12, 2004
Protect your intellectual property now or risk having your business sacked by open souce-touting bandits, The SCO Group President and CEO Darl McBride warned an audience of tech industry leaders, analysts and investors ...
SCO CEO Q&A: No need to sue more customers
Aug. 02, 2004
As The SCO Group's reseller and developer community gathers for its annual SCO Forum convention in Las Vegas this week, one question on many attendees' minds will be whether the company's future will be as a software ...
The worm attacks! SCO downed by MyDoom
Feb. 01, 2004
Computers infected with the MyDoom virus Sunday launched a massive attack against the Web site of Unix software maker The SCO Group, cutting off access to the company's Web site.
New, fast-spreading worm spells 'doom' for many
Jan. 27, 2004
A new e-mail worm is spreading rapidly on the Internet, clogging e-mail servers and staging an attack on the Web site of Unix vendor The SCO Group, anti-virus software vendors said.
Intel, IBM pony up for Linux lawsuit fund
Jan. 12, 2004
Open Source Development Labs Monday said it aims to establish a $10 million defense fund to pay the legal fees of Linux users sued by The SCO Group, plus those of OSDL employees, including Linus Torvalds. Torvalds is ...
IT people, places and things we want to hear more - or less - about in 2008
Dec. 20, 2007
Municipal Wi-Fi and Applie's Leopard grow in newsworthiness while NTP's patent fights face lack of interest in 2008.
What doesn't matter in IT anymore
Dec. 20, 2007
Enough about what matters, here's what doesn't, or won't by the time we hit 2009 -- from A to Z.
The smartest and dumbest tech moves of 2007 - and why they matter
Dec. 20, 2007
The year's smartest moves include VMware going public, the judge slapping down the SCO lawsuit against IBM and Novell, and Cisco's WebEx buy, while the dumbest moves include the funding of social networks and Apple's ...
An IT Christmas carol
Dec. 13, 2007
Try resting merry IT men / Let nothing you dismay / Remember data centers / Still run on Christmas Day
Look out! It's FrankenSCO!
Oct. 26, 2007
Santa Cruz Operation was surely dead, but along comes an investor to breathe a spark of finance into the corpse.
SCO has a buyer, pending bankruptcy approval
Oct. 25, 2007
Embattled SCO Group is offering the bankruptcy court a deal it could be hard to refuse.
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