According to BayStar Capital's managing partner Larry Goldfarb, Microsoft allegedly assured BayStar that it would somehow ##"guarantee" BayStar's $50 million investment in SCO.## Specifically, Goldfarb has testified to the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City that Microsoft senior VP of corporate development and strategy, Richard Emerson, "discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would backstop, or guarantee in some way, BayStar's investment... Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar's investment in SCO."