IBM and SCO may be embroiled in a game of suit and countersuit, but that has-n’t prevented SCO from availing itself of IBM’s Global Services division – sort of.As Netcraft recently pointed out, a ping of the SCO’s investor relations Web site,ir.sco.com, shows that it resolves to an IP address (170.224.5.43), which is owned by Sequent Computer Systems, Inc — the NUMA computer company that IBM bought in 1999, and whose intellectual property is at the center of the SCO-IBM lawsuit.So what’s going on here? Is IBM hosting its enemy’s Web site?Not quite. It turns out that the ir.sco.com Web site is hosted by Shareholder.com, an investor communications company that specializes in building and hosting investor relations Web sites, and that the Shareholder.com server that hosts SCO’s investor relations site is co-located in a facility run by IBM Global Services.So IBM is connected to, but not the host of, SCO’s investor relations portal.“They are responsible for making sure the facility is secure, air conditioned, and that the Internet connections are connected to our [server] farm,” a Shareholder.com spokesman pointed out to me. He was also quick to note that the IBM facility was just one of two facilities his company used. The other is run by AT&T. Netcraft Director Mike Prettejohn, who said a Netcraft visitor initially tipped him off to the situation, told me that it is common practice for IBM Global Services to use the Sequent IP addresses. He was clearly tickled by the situation. “I think that’s genuinely ironic,” he said. “The curious thing about it is probably neither IBM nor SCO knew about this.”Oh, and in case you were wondering about what operating system theShareholder.com server that hosts ir.sco.com is using, it’s Windows 2000, according to Netcraft.— A guest post from IDG News Service’s Bob McMillan. Technology Industry