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IBM Subpoenas Several Companies in SCO Case

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the call-for-court-appearances dept.

bl8n8r writes "IBM subpoenas are flying. Morgan Keegan, EV1, Oracle, Royce, CAI, Center7, Novell, Canopy, S2, are all asked to reveal details on all documents concerning any communications with or any meetings involving Microsoft regarding Unix, Linux, SCO and/or Canopy." Groklaw notes that even more subpoenas are likely on the way.

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  1. Re:IBM in action by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Informative
    Great! It's fun seeing IBM in action, but, why are they doing this?

    Because they're being sued by SCO and they're gathering evidence against them?

  2. this is why by Kamic · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/04/23/sco.inv estment.ap/index.html

  3. Working link by yroJJory · · Score: 4, Informative

    CNN story

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  4. Subpoena: for stupid people like me by Tribbin · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

    Subpoena \Sub*p[oe]"na\, n. [NL., fr. L. sub under + poena
    punishment. See Pain.] (Law)
    A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of
    the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process
    by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and
    answer the plaintiff's bill. [Written also subpena.]

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  5. Re:I like the s2 subpoena by leerpm · · Score: 3, Informative

    IANAL, but I think court sanctioned subpoenas pretty much overrule any sort of confidentiality agreement/contract. Of course, the information will not be made public and will be sealed by the court, but IBM's lawyers will still get to see it.

  6. Re:Some Insight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe they're not going after Microsoft because IBM is the largest reseller of Microsoft software and the single largest customer of Microsoft licenses.

    Why do you think Microsoft went through BayStar and the like? While they hate each other with passion, they are bed fellows.

  7. Re:I like the s2 subpoena by macdaddy · · Score: 4, Informative

    An NDA doesn't mean jack when staring down the barrels of a subpoena. They'll be in contempt if they don't comply.

  8. Re:IBM must be hunting for something more... by number11 · · Score: 4, Informative

    what's the case against MS?

    So far, that Baystar, one of the major sources of financing for SCO, did so at the behest of Microsoft. (The other major source of funding is a Canadian bank acting for unnamed private parties.) And that, Mike Anderer, the consultant who is "S2" wrote a subsequently leaked memo discussing how SCO was obtaining >$80M in funding (mostly indirectly) from MS.

  9. Re:IBM and Microsoft by mst76 · · Score: 3, Informative

    > IBM makes more money,

    IBM's revenues are much larger (91B vs 36B) but the EBITDA (10.4 vs 11.7B) and net earnings (7.8B vs 7.4B) are pretty close.

    > has more employees,

    Making the same amount of money with more people is not good.

    > and is a bigger company. Go check out the facts at some point...

    Depends on your metric. Measured by market cap, MSFT (297B) is much bigger than IBM (155B).