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Microsoft did too fund SCO

10/08/2006  
Relevance: 9.04
From the Dept. of Big Duh: But the kicker was he began to realize that Microsoft, whose senior VP of corporate development and strategy had promised that Microsoft would in some way guarantee the SCO investment, started showing signs it might not do that after all:"Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would 'backstop,' or guarantee in some way, BayStar's investment.... Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar's investment in SCO."[What's that saying about no honor among thieves....Tuxchick]
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AMD Makes Strategic Investment in Transmeta

07/07/2007  
Relevance: 7.50
Transmeta, the company Linus Torvalds once worked for in 1997 through 2003 has just announced aninvestment of $7.5 million from AMD in exchange for preferred stock.
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AXIGEN Announces 2 Million EUR Investment

11/15/2007  
Relevance: 6.99
Gecad Technologies, AXIGEN Mail Server developer, announces 2 million euro-worth investment from a consortium of important venture capitals and technology companies such as Global Finance, 3TS-Cisco Growth Fund III and others.
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UPDATE: NY investment management company offers to buy SCO for $36M

10/25/2007  
Relevance: 6.65
The SCO Group is seeking U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval to sell its Unix business to a New York investment management firm for $36 million, according to documents filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Lindon company said it sought court approval on Tuesday for an agreement it entered into with JGD Management Corp. doing business as New York-based investment firm York Capital Management LLC, to sell"substantially all assets used by (SCO) in connection with its Unix business and certain related claims in litigation." The offer also includes up to $10 million in funding for SCO's litigation expenses.
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Linux grabs 75% of all open source investment

12/06/2006  
Relevance: 6.61
The Linux operating system is the recipient of 75% of all vendor investment in open source software, according to a new report from the Harvard Business School, which also indicates that vendor support for open source is primarily motivated by boosting their proprietary offerings.
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SCO Bags $100 Million But Who Benefits?

02/20/2008  
Relevance: 6.59
There were other curious funds that SCO received throughout its lifetime, even when its main role was that of a plaintiff in court. These include court declarationan investment from BayStar, a venture capital firm. In a court declaration it emerged that Richard Emerson, a Microsoft employee, was involved in BayStar's investment in SCO. A BayStar representative later added:"Yes, Microsoft did introduce BayStar to SCO."
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Open Source Firm SourceLabs Raises $7 million Series B Investment

10/29/2006  
Relevance: 6.26
SourceLabs announced that it has secured a $7 million Series B investment from Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners, and Index Ventures. The company will use the additional funds to fuel the growth of its core business of providing enterprises with solutions that realize the tremendous cost savings and flexibility of open source infrastructure software in a low-risk manner.
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AMD Splits, Launches The Foundry Company

10/09/2008  
Relevance: 6.11
Since Advanced Micro Devices acquired ATI Technologies back in 2006 they have experienced some financial hardship over this $5 billion USD purchase. In hopes of turning around this situation, AMD has announced this morning they have split themselves from their manufacturing facilities as part of their Asset Smart strategy. AMD combined with Advanced Technology Investment Company, an investment firm from Abu Dhabi, supplying the capital they have formed The Foundry Company...
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Fear and Loathing in Open Source Marketing

03/01/2008  
Relevance: 5.93
Drupal recently made a deal with the devils (venture capitalists) by virtue of the a $7 million investment in Acquia. Acquia owns the Drupal brand (or at least legally they do). Drupal lead (and Acquia co-founder) Dries Buytaert and the fine people at Acquia along with their backers are now at the crossroads faced by every vendor who sells free software… How do they supply a return on their investment without recommitting the sins of their proprietary software brethren or alienating Drupal - Open Source CMS the community that so far has driven their success.
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Microsoft Pumps Another $100M Into Novell Deal

08/21/2008  
Relevance: 5.84
Microsoft is bumping up its monetary investment in its controversial partnership with Novell. Styling the deal as a so-called incremental investment increase, Microsoft will buy up to $100 million in Suse Linux Enterprise Server support certificates. The certificates are sold and exchanged for IT support from Novell for its Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
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