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SCO Reorganizes its Reorganization Plan

One of SCO's many critics Al Petrosky was at the short 20-minute hearing

Apr. 7, 2008 03:45 PM

SCO turned up in bankruptcy court the other day to say that it was withdrawing its latest reorganization plan – the one where a mystery Arab moneybags was going to put $100 million at its disposal – and submit another one that has the same mystery Arab moneybags pumping even more money into SCO.

According to what SCO told us, and has yet to detail to the court because they’re still working on it, it’s a result of the due diligence.

Things are supposedly looking even brighter than before.

The new plan abandons the idea of giving SCO a $95 million line of credit to draw on to chase its legal anti-Linux ambitions against Novell and IBM et al and substitutes a straight infusion in support of its Unix and mobile interests as well as its myriad court cases – and no matter what they tell the bankruptcy court on or about May 11 when they file the new plan you should probably consider that legal fund a blank check.

They want blood drawn and heads to roll.

One of SCO’s many critics, Al Petrosky, who was at the short 20-minute hearing, reminded us to tell you that Stephen Norris, the co-founder of the Carlyle Group and more recently Norris Capital Partners, the billionaire facilitator behind the deal, is himself a lawyer – and besides all the legal talent he can buy – should be able to appraise SCO’s case himself.

Oh, yes, IBM and Novell object to this and that.

Published Apr. 7, 2008 — Reads 3,283
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vhc61 wrote: One thing not in this article, that other sites are saying, is that the DoJ has had it with SCO now, and may dismantle the corp. if the currect restructuring fails. This is reported on both Ars Technica and E Commerce Times (Maurine, just go to Google News and search for "SCO DOJ" to get this info) and why it is not included here is beyond me, unless the article is designed to offer some glimmer of hope. Other than that, the point that Norris is a lawyer is relevant, but possibly not in the way that O'Gara thinks. Norris is representing his clients, not SCO, and has the unnamed "moneybags" interests foremost. As long as this unnamed individual/group makes money, Norris could care less about what happens to SCO or SCO's chances of winning the lawsuits. It could well be that Norris et al hope that a sma...

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William Hart wrote: Shouldn't SCO get approval from the bankruptcy court before they start blithely announcing yet another variation on the re-org plan?

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SCO News Desk wrote: One of SCO's many critics, Al Petrosky, who was at the short 20-minute hearing, reminded us to tell you that Stephen Norris, the co-founder of the Carlyle Group and more recently Norris Capital Partners, the billionaire facilitator behind the deal, is himself a lawyer - and besides all the legal talent he can buy - should be able to appraise SCO's case himself.

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