From: Brian Ziel <bri...@sco.COM> Subject: SCO News Date: 1998/02/24 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980224102406.00988140@mars.sco.com> X-Deja-AN: 328373278 Sender: ed...@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) Followup-To: comp.unix.sco.misc Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.announce FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COMPAQ, DATA GENERAL, ICL, AND UNISYS INVEST IN SCO'S UNIXWARE SYSTEM AS THE STANDARD UNIX ON INTEL FOR THE DATA CENTER UnixWare System to Bring Mainframe Levels of Performance and Reliability to IA-32 and Merced(tm) Processor SANTA CRUZ, CA (February 24, 1998) - SCO, Compaq, Data General, ICL, and Unisys today announced business relationships to extend UnixWare capabilities for the Data Center, accelerating the move away from today's proprietary Data Center architectures to a widely supported, industry-standard model. During a global press conference, the companies announced that they have agreed contractually to invest millions of dollars in R&D funds to move the UnixWare system into the Data Center on both the Intel IA-32 and IA-64 platforms, beginning in 1998. The move, a major endorsement of SCO's UnixWare system, establishes the UnixWare system as the only hardware-vendor independent UNIX System for Intel processor-based servers in the Data Center. The Data Center, often termed the "glass house" and powered today by mainframes and proprietary RISC UNIX systems, contains the enterprise's most valuable corporate assets. Said Alok Mohan, president and CEO of SCO, "UnixWare is simply the most powerful, complete operating system for the Intel platform." SCO Moves Up-Market The announcement marks an unprecedented joint endorsement of SCO's UnixWare operating system, extending its position up-market and into the Data Center. It also underscores the changing economics of the server industry, sending a strong signal that consolidation around the Intel architecture and the UNIX system is now inevitable. Leading RISC UNIX vendors, who clearly are aware of the limitations of the their current platforms, have already announced their plans to embrace the future Merced processor from Intel. Computer Vendors Commit to the UnixWare System in the Data Center Compaq, Data General, ICL, and Unisys have agreed to establish SCO's UnixWare OS as the standard UNIX System in the Data Center for IA-32 and IA-64 product lines. As part of this, they will actively sell and market the UnixWare product into the Data Center, most beginning in 1998. These enterprise hardware manufacturers are bringing their Data Center expertise and knowledge to SCO, and will participate in defining the requirements necessary to extend the capabilities of the UnixWare system for the Data Center. The result will be a new generation of industry-standard Data Center hardware platforms that deliver new levels of customer value - a common enterprise architecture, wider breadth of applications and tools, improved service and support and better integration with their existing enterprises. The Business Agreement Under the business agreement, the enterprise OEMs have agreed contractually to invest millions of dollars in R&D funds to enhance the Data Center capabilities of the UnixWare system for both IA-32 and IA-64 platforms. In return, they will share in the overall UnixWare Data Center revenue stream which includes extensions sold on top of UnixWare 7 and in potential new UnixWare Data Center product configurations. Their investment significantly augments SCO's Data Center UnixWare engineering resources. The companies will also participate in large scale system testing and benchmarking with their staff and facilities. UnixWare Data Center Roadmap During the press conference, SCO also unveiled elements of its Data Center roadmap for the UnixWare system. Extending through the year 2000, the roadmap covers scalability, RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability), capacity, maintainability, and security, to achieve outstanding TPC-C and TPC-D benchmarks. The roadmap also includes support for very large systems based on SMP and ccNUMA, as well as clustering technology for beyond 32 nodes. Intel Supports UnixWare Directions Today's announcement was strongly supported by Intel Corporation. "Intel strongly supports the effort to extend UnixWare capabilities for the data center," said John Miner, vice president and general manager, Intel's Enterprise Server Group. "UnixWare on Intel-based servers are a reliable and scalable platform for enterprise applications. IA is the unifying architecture that allows standard high-volume servers to naturally progress into the data center. UnixWare in the data center is a way for OEMs to consolidate and coordinate their OS development efforts. Intel and SCO are working closely together to achieve this." UnixWare OS for the Merced Processor SCO is working closely with Intel to develop a full 64-bit version of the UnixWare system, due to ship concurrent with Merced processor-based systems. UnixWare 7, the newest SCO server scheduled for release in March 1998, delivers key 64-bit technologies and development tools on 32-bit platforms. In the second half of 1998, SCO is scheduled to release to key partners an environment to develop IA-64 applications for the UnixWare system. The combination of these efforts will provide SCO's developers and ISVs with a smooth migration to IA-64 platforms as they arrive. ISV Support The announcement generated widespread support among leading enterprise ISVs. "CA's Unicenter TNG has emerged as the industry's premier enterprise management solution because it addresses the complex challenge of controlling critical IT assets across heterogeneous environments," said Yogesh Gupta, CA senior vice president of product strategy. "CA enthusiastically supports the UnixWare initiative by giving clients the most advanced management of their UnixWare environments through Unicenter TNG." About SCO SCO is the world's number one provider of UNIX server operating systems, and the leading provider of Network Computing software that enables clients of all kinds--including, PCs, character terminals, and NCs - to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed the Tarantella product, the world's first application broker for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, see SCO's WWW home page at: http://www.sco.com/. # # # SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, the SCO logo, UnixWare, and Tarantella are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the USA and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owner. ---------------------- PRESS CONTACTS: SCO Monika Laud, PR Director Phone: 408-427-7421 E-mail: moni...@sco.com Compaq Christine Campbell Miller/Shandwick Technologies Phone: 617-351-4187 E-mail: ccampb...@miller.shandwick.com Data General Carlos Soares, Product Marketing Consultant Corporate Communications Phone: 508-898-6674 E-mail: CSoa...@imps0014.us.dg.com ICL Peter Slavid, Business Strategy Manager Phone: +UK-(0)1753 555340 E-mail: P.M.Sla...@fs001.wins.icl.co.uk Intel Marion Koehler, Manager Press Relations Phone: 408-765-3547 E-mail: marion_koeh...@mail.intel.com Unisys Julie DiBene, Director Press Relations Phone: 408-434-4508 E-mail: Julie.DiB...@Unisys.com ### ___________________ Brian Ziel Manager, Product PR Tel: 408-427-7252 Fax: 408-427-5418 Email: mailto:bri...@sco.com Web: http://www.sco.com Press: http://www.sco.com/press ___________________