A company spokesman confirmed Monday that CEO Darl McBride and other executives were en route to Japan, where they will spend the week explaining the SCO's high-stakes legal battle against Linux to leaders of information technology companies.

The Lindon, Utah-based company stunned the tech world earlier this year when it sued IBM, claiming Big Blue violated contracts governing the use of the underlying code for the Unix operating system, which SCO controls and licenses to most big tech firms. SCO claimed that source code underneath the open-source Linux operating system--of which IBM has been a major supporter--includes major segments copied from Unix. It eventually revoked IBM's license to use Unix and upped its legal claim to $3 billion.

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