From: Brian Ziel <bri...@sco.COM> Subject: SCO FORUM96 BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER! Date: 1996/09/06 Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960906201554.006b00a0@srv400a.sco.com> X-Deja-AN: 179013537 sender: ed...@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada followup-to: comp.unix.sco.misc newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.announce FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Monika Laud SCO TEL: 408/427-7421 FAX: 408/427-5448 moni...@sco.com SCO FORUM96 BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER! Record Breaking Attendance, Enormous Turnout for "Gemini" FastTrack, Free UNIX License, and NC Pavilion at 10th Annual Symposium SANTA CRUZ, CA (September 6, 1996) - SCO Forum96, the 10th annual symposium for SCO (NASDAQ:SCOC) developers, resellers and partners, celebrated the highest attendance in conference history, and received an overwhelming response to its special two-day developer's conference, Gemini FastTrack. SCO Forum96 was also the site for SCO to announce free UNIX licenses for educational and non-commercial use, and to introduce the first ever NC Pavilion. SCO's president and CEO, Alok Mohan, said, "This was the most successful and exciting Forum ever. There was a real feeling that UNIX is alive and well, evidenced by a large commitment from partners, developers and the huge turnout for the Gemini FastTrack session. I think we shocked some people with our free UNIX offer and the NC Pavilion, but Forum always brings a few surprises. Its part of its nature." SCO Forum96 hit an all time high with over 3,000 registered attendees, who gathered on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz to hear and see the latest in open systems direction and development. The conference featured a series of educational seminars, ranging from sales and marketing to future directions and engineering. The most popular session, with over 800 people registered, was the two-day Gemini FastTrack, which outlined code-level details of SCO's upcoming merge of the SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare operating systems. Early technology snapshots of Gemini (Software, Hardware, and Java Development Kits) were handed out to the fortunate Gemini FastTrack participants. "The turnout at the Gemini FastTrack was phenomenal, since we originally provided for a little more than half that many developers" said Scott McGregor, SCO's senior vice president, Products. "This is indicative of the Gemini project generating an excitement level externally that we've had for quite some time internally. With so many attendees registered we had a small issue accommodating everyone who wanted to learn more about Gemini. Since our largest hall held 500, we used an extra hall for the overflow and piped in video. It was a bit of a problem, but a good problem to have." McGregor also brought cheers from the Forum96 crowd with the surprise announcement of a free UNIX license for educational and non-commercial use to enable the evaluation and understanding of UNIX systems. In the first seven days of its release, SCO filled over 1,000 licenses, the first license coming from a college student in India. The orders continue to pour in through the company's Web site and through its channel, recently eclipsing the 2,000 license mark. For more information on free UNIX licenses please see SCO's home page at www.sco.com. SCO Forum96 also dazzled the attendees with the first ever exposition of more than a dozen Network Computer (NC) hardware vendors, who assembled their wares for public viewing. Dubbed the NC Pavilion, companies such as HDS, SunRiver, Teknema, Wyse, Unisys, Sun, and diba gave a rare glimpse of the future of Web-based computing. For the one day the NC Pavilion was open, it was flooded with goose-necked onlookers, some seeing for the first time the much talked about NC. For details, descriptions and photos from SCO Forum96 please visit its official Web site: www.forum96.sco.com. About SCO SCO is the world's leading supplier of UNIX server and host systems, and a leading provider of client-integration software that integrates Windows PCs and other clients with UNIX servers from all major vendors. SCO Business Critical Servers run the critical, day-to-day operations of large branch organizations in retail, finance, telecom, and government, as well as corporate departments and small to medium-sized businesses of every kind. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For additional corporate and product information, see SCO's home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.sco.com. ### SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, the SCO logo, SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the USA and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the US and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners. _________________________________ Brian Ziel SCO Public Relations Tel: 408-427-7252 Fax: 408-427-5418 bri...@sco.com