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Sun joins the party in Delaware
Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 04:47 PM EDT

Now it's Sun that is asking for all notices of every kind, formal or informal, written or oral, in the SCO bankruptcy. Oh, and Missouri would like its tax money. So I'm seeing that there will indeed be a creditors' committee. But who will get to chair the committee?

When the creditors meet, it's going to be like dinner with a large and seriously dysfunctional, complicated and nuancedly neurotic family, where the siblings will discuss how to divide up fairly their recently deceased mother's personal effects, some of which have already mysteriously disappeared. Here's the latest:

111 - Filed & Entered: 10/10/2007
Affidavit/Declaration of Service
Docket Text: Affidavit/Declaration of Service of Kimberly A. Beck re: Docket Nos. [73], [89], [90] and [91] (related document(s)[91], [90], [89], [73] ) Filed by Novell, Inc.. (Greecher, Sean)

112 - Filed & Entered: 10/10/2007
Notice of Appearance(B)
Docket Text: Notice of Appearance and Request for Service of Papers Filed by SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.. (Finger, David)

113 - Filed & Entered: 10/10/2007
Notice of Appearance(B)
Docket Text: Notice of Appearance and request for pleadings, notices, and documents Filed by Missouri Department of Revenue. (Moreau, Sheryl)




  


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No Corrections Needed Here
Authored by: entre on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:04 PM EDT
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Off-topic here, please
Authored by: overshoot on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:05 PM EDT
For those clicky links and prettyprinting, see the handy instructions in red.

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Newspicks discussions here please
Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:13 PM EDT
Please indicate which newspick item you are referring to in the title.

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Sun joins the party in Delaware
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:16 PM EDT
More like a weenie roast, and everybody is arguing over who gets to hold the
stick over the fire the longest.

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Texas & Missouri join the party in Delaware
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:23 PM EDT
I wonder if they do this routinely or does SCO has some specific assets or
operations in Texas and Missouri?

I can't imagine what taxes, beyond some sales tax would be due those two states
otherwise.

---
Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
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Sun joins the party in Delaware
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:26 PM EDT
Isn't Missouri the "Show me" state? Fitting for MIssouri
to interest in SCO. Seems like SCO has quite a bunch of
people interested in getting money owed to them. I'm
certainly no expert, but I don't recall ever seeing mention
of so much debt in any of SCO's filings. Perhaps others
have?

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Sun joins the party in Delaware
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:48 PM EDT
My *guess* is that Sun will make the point that SCO sold
property that did not belong to it and therefore:
1) The deal is null and void.
2) Sun should get its money back.

The battle between Novell and Sun will be pretty interesting.

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Why? "Sun joins the party in Delaware"
Authored by: wowbagger on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:54 PM EDT
Why would Sun be joining the party? They paid money - I would not think they are
creditors.

Could it be that they are planning on saying "Since what you 'sold' us you
had no rights to, we want our money back"?

Naaaah - we couldn't be so lucky to have that amusing event happen....

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Sun joins the party in Delaware
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 06:24 PM EDT
Where is Silicon Graphics?

There are the only major company involved in the AT&T
fiasco that is not present.

Or for that matter where is the University of California?

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Novell's motions and affidavits were served on US AG's office
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 10:28 PM EDT
Novell served their documents on Ellen W. Slights, Esq., Assistant US Attorney
in the Wilmington, DE office.

They also served the Attorney General, several SEC offices, and so on. A quick
search shows that this is not unprecedented, but it does not seem to be the
norm. One wonders what hilarity may ensue.

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Irs
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 07:30 AM EDT
Could it be that SCO did not pay taxes on the monies received for Novel? I
believe if these monies were destined for a trust to somebody else, they would
not have to. Then they spent the monies, and now owe the IRS.

Another possibility, is that if Novel could not recover the monies, they may be
able to deduct the loss, just like a stolen and unrecoverable asset.

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  • Irs - Authored by: elderlycynic on Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 07:38 AM EDT
  • Irs - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 08:26 AM EDT
  • Irs - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 10:06 AM EDT
    • Irs tax man - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 01:36 PM EDT
lamlaw.com comments
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 09:21 AM EDT
lamlaw.com on Sun joining in at Delaware: link

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