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NetFlash: Microsoft behind $50 million SCO investment

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Mar 12, 20043 mins
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I’m about as “shocked and appalled” as Justin Timberlake over the latest confirmation that Microsoft helped get money to SCO. Microsoft recommended that investment fund BayStar Capital look into The SCO Group, the company that is making so much trouble for Microsoft’s biggest competition in operating systems, Linux. Microsoft behind $50 million SCO investment http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0311mssco.html?net

I’m about as “shocked and appalled” as Justin Timberlake over the latest confirmation that Microsoft helped get money to SCO. Microsoft recommended that investment fund BayStar Capital look into The SCO Group, the company that is making so much trouble for Microsoft’s biggest competition in operating systems, Linux.

Microsoft behind $50 million SCO investment

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0311mssco.html?net

HP buys more identity mgmt. software

HP has been buying its way to management health and happiness over the last six months, gobbling up smaller companies at the rate of one a month. The challenge after all this will be to integrate the acquired technology – including the latest prize, TruLogica.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0311trulogic.html?net

CA closes deal to buy Miramar Systems

Meanwhile, Computer Associates Thursday announced it had made final the all-cash deal to purchase Miramar Systems, known best for its desktop migration products.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0311cabuy.html?net

Nortel to delay 2003 financials

Nortel this week said it would delay filing its 2003 annual report with the SEC as it continues an internal review begun in October.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0311nortearn.html?net

Today at “Layer 8”

TGIF! Layer 8 is looking forward to Sunday’s NCAA Basketball Tournament Selection Show so we can get our brackets organized and picks made. How are you going to track your picks? We’ve got some helpful tools from Microsoft for Excel and Visio that could help eliminate ink stains and burned-out erasers. Plus we update the $1,000,000 bill and University of Georgia “test” scandal. Finally, don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest by 8 p.m. EST today!

https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net

This week’s top 5 stories so far:

1. Microsoft users decry no bang for big bucks

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308licensing.html?net

2. Inside the DoD’s crime lab

https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0308dod.html?net

3. Moving Linux to the desktop

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308desktop.html?net

4. Wireless LAN industry starts raising antennas over MIMO

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308mimo.html?net

5. Bottom line alone isn’t selling VoIP

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308voicecon.html?net