SCO: Microsoft played no role in VC fundraising
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The SCO Group Inc. said Thursday that Microsoft Corp. was not involved in raising venture capital funding for the company, dismissing claims that a leaked e-mail demonstrated that Microsoft had helped raise tens of millions of dollars for SCO.
An e-mail from an outside consultant to SCO apparently involved in brokering deals for the company was posted to the Open Source Initiative Web site Wednesday. The consultant in the e-mail suggests that Microsoft "brought in $86 million" for SCO and that between $16 million and $20 million is underway.
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems Inc. signed Unix licensing deals with SCO in 2003, earning the company $13.5 million.