Rumors are circulating that The SCO Group is headed toward bankruptcy.
But is the Unix company that took on IBM, Novell, Red Hat and the entire Linux world really in danger of going broke?
The latest rash of rumors was triggered by a claim in a recent legal document, Novells Redacted Reply to SCOs Opposition to Novells Motion for Partial Summary Judgment or Preliminary Injunction, that Novell filed in its SCO lawsuit.
In it, Novells lawyers stated that, “For SCO, bankruptcy is inevitable; it characterizes its assets as merely those remaining and does not rebut Novells arguments that its bankruptcy is imminent.”
Strong words, but its not really a prediction of imminent doom for SCO when taken in context.
The Novell statement is really more in the line of a prophecy if Novell wins its point that SCO owes Novell the revenue from its Microsoft and Sun deals.
Novell is going after the money that SCO has made from its last two major Unix deals. Specifically, Novell wants its share of the payments SCO received from the SVRX [Unix System V Release any] license agreements that it executed in 2003 with Sun and Microsoft. SCO has received at least $25,846,000 from these two companies through its SVRX Licenses. It was this multi-million-dollar revenue that fueled SCOs IBM lawsuits.