So here's the summary:

  • Royal Bank of Canada out
  • Baystar Capital in big
  • Baystar Capital wants stronger focus on the court proceedings
  • more technicians will be laid off
  • no more usable support for SCO products
  • customers finally jump ship from SCO
  • SCO's financial foundation goes down the drain
  • IBM tears apart SCO's alleged claims in court
  • SCO is history

So what did all this madness accomplish? A traditional name in the Unix world disappears, many programmers are unemployed and many SCO customers are left out in the cold with outdated products and no support. And a few lawyers are making a killing.

At heise online news there's the original article.