SCO and IBM stipulate to another change in the schedule

Well, this is different. Remember when IBM asked for a 30-day extension in the pretrial schedule deadlines, or alternatively stipulated that after the Novell trial would be fine? They couldn’t get SCO to agree to dates, remember? And then SCO opposed and still didn’t offer any firm dates? And then the judge approved IBM’s motion, giving them the 30 days, which would plunk SCO smack dab in the middle of the trial in Novell? Well, SCO must have really begged IBM to give them more time, and I gather IBM said OK but you have to write and file the stipulation. And so, here we have it, a stipulation [PDF] written by SCO’s side, changing the schedule that was just ordered by the judge. Instead of deadlines in August and September, the first one now will be in October and judging from this schedule, the trial in IBM can’t happen until 2008 now.

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