If IBM wants to buy The SCO Group Inc. and end SCO's ongoing Unix licensing assault on Linux, CEO Darl McBride is apparently all ears.

McBride's comments came in reaction to a report from Forrester Research Inc. analyst Ted Schadler, who wrote last week that IBM or an IBM-led consortium will likely "pay off SCO" or buy the company to "make the SCO problem go away."

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Looks like there is truth in the speculation that SCO wants to be bought out.