BayStar, Bert Young, and marchFIRST (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw has done some research into the history of Bert Young, SCO's new chief financial officer. "Perhaps it will be news to you there were some significant financial issues at marchFIRST, which went bankrupt, and which have resulted in lawsuits with Mr. Young named as one of the defendants, charged with corporate waste and breach of fiduciary duty, among other things. The lawsuits are ongoing."

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BayStar, Bert Young, and marchFIRST (Groklaw)

Posted Apr 26, 2004 20:35 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Why not start a serie 'The people behind SCO' ?
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BayStar, Bert Young, and marchFIRST (Groklaw)

Posted Apr 26, 2004 21:03 UTC (Mon) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]

Looks like Groklaw has fallen a victim to MySQL's legendary flakiness...

BayStar, Bert Young, and marchFIRST (Groklaw)

Posted Apr 26, 2004 22:31 UTC (Mon) by brouhaha (guest, #1698) [Link]

Wow, my office used to be next door to marchFirst. I went to their bankruptcy liquidation, and it was obvious that they had spent money like there was no tomorrow (and I suppose for them there wasn't). They had the fanciest, most expensive cubicles, and everyone had Aeron chairs.

My then employer, Pluris, was fairly frugal. We had old, plain cubicles, inexpensive chairs, etc., and I don't recall hearing any of the employees complain about it.

We went out of business too, though. We were building scalable terabit core routers. Back then (1999-2001) the tier one ISPs (e.g., Worldcom) were claiming that the backbone traffic was increasing exponentially, though it was later found that they were falsifying these reports just as much as their accounting. We had production-qualified hardware and software, and some happy field trial customers, but then Juniper announced a more-or-less competitive product (not quite as scalable), and that was the death knell for Pluris.