Compaq Announces Support For Monterey UNIX Initiative On ProLiant Servers.

HOUSTON/SOMERS, NY & SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1999--Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ), in conjunction with IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SCO (Nasdaq: SCO), today announced that Compaq has endorsed Monterey, a high-volume, shrink-wrapped UNIX for Intel's forthcoming IA-64 architecture. In addition, IBM announced its support for Compaq's involvement in Project Monterey, stating that it will host Compaq ProLiant systems in its Solution Partnership Centers, and provide IBM middleware on Compaq UNIX platforms.

Compaq's endorsement, which extends its long-standing relationship with SCO, brings its industry-leading solutions and expertise to SCO's customers as they migrate SCO's UnixWare to 64-bit environments.

This announcement underscores that industry momentum is building and commitment is growing for Monterey on IA-64, which will be a leading, high volume, channel-ready, shrink-wrapped, UNIX operating system.

IBM and SCO will work together with Compaq as it establishes Monterey on IA-64-based ProLiant platforms in the marketplace, by leveraging each company's distribution capabilities, UNIX technological strengths, partner support structure and server market presence. The results are expected to be an expansion of business opportunities and lower costs for existing UnixWare customers and channels. Customers are expected to benefit from having new UNIX system solutions, investment protection for their IA-32 systems, and a clear path to a fully compatible solution on IA-64.

"Compaq is extending our commitment to SCO customers by endorsing the Monterey initiative," said Tim Yeaton, vice president and general manager of the UNIX Software Division, Compaq Computer Corporation. "Our leadership role in both the Data Center Acceleration Program (DCAP) and NonStop Clusters has brought robust, scalable and highly available capabilities for UnixWare customers seeking channel-ready, shrink-wrapped UNIX solutions for IA-32. The Monterey initiative will extend these industry-leading solutions to our customers as they move to the IA-64 environment."

Compaq will also work with IBM, one of the creators of the Project Monterey effort, to ensure strong platform support and software availability.

"Compaq's participation in the Monterey initiative will propel the initiative to another level," said Rajiv Samant, general manager, UNIX, IBM. "IBM's strength in the enterprise and Compaq's market presence, distribution channels and UNIX capabilities, will lead Monterey to success. Compaq ProLiant servers will be important platforms for Monterey on IA-64, and with Compaq's participation, Monterey will become the leading volume shrink-wrapped, enterprise-capable UNIX operating system for the IA-64 platform."

"We are absolutely delighted to have Compaq's support for Monterey," said Doug Michels, president and CEO, SCO. "As a long-term strategic partner of SCO's and a leading supplier of industry-standard servers, Compaq brings a whole new level of momentum to Project Monterey. Our joint customers will see tremendous value in this announcement on both today's IA-32 UnixWare solutions, as well as tomorrow's Monterey platform."

Selected IBM Solution Partnership Centers will house Compaq ProLiant servers, along with IBM Netfinity servers, to help ISVs port applications to Monterey platforms. In addition, Compaq will designate select Compaq porting centers for Monterey development. This will help provide the ISVs with infrastructure critical to successfully porting applications to Monterey. IBM and Compaq are also working together to offer selected IBM middleware solutions on Compaq's UNIX offerings, including Tru64 UNIX.

Compaq will also become a sponsor of the UNIX Developer's Guide - Programming Interfaces initiative, announced earlier this month. The UNIX Developer's Guide - Programming Interfaces is a collaborative effort to develop and publish guidelines that software developers and system manufacturers can use for UNIX operating systems running on the Intel microprocessor architecture. These guidelines are designed to help reduce development, maintenance and test costs for software developers and system manufacturers. Compaq's solutions for UnixWare on IA-32, Monterey on IA-64 and Compaq's Tru64 UNIX will be compliant with the UNIX Developer's Guide Programming Interfaces standard.

Compaq, ProLiant, Tru64 UNIX and NonStop are trademarks or registered trademarks of Compaq Computer Corporation. SCO and UNIXware are trademarks of Santa Cruz Operation, Incorporated. AIX is a trademark of IBM Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All others are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Project Monterey Background

Announced last October, Project Monterey is a major UNIX operating system initiative led by IBM, SCO, Sequent, leading OEMs and now, Compaq. As part of this initiative, a high volume, shrink-wrapped, UNIX operating system is being developed for Intel's IA-64 processors using technologies from IBM's AIX operating system, SCO's UnixWare operating system, and Sequent's enterprise technologies. IBM will license AIX technology to SCO's UnixWare operating system for the IA-32 market. Last October, leading software companies announced their support for the UNIX software. They include BEA Systems, Compuware, Data Pro Accounting Software, Informix, Infospace, Micro Focus, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell, PeopleSoft, Pick Systems, Progress Software, Rational, Real World, Risk Management Technology, Software AG, SAS Institute and TakeFive.

Also today, new ISVs announced their support for Monterey. They are: Baan Company, BMC Software, daly.commerce, GIAC Smart Enterprise Solutions, ISOCOR, Marcam Solutions, Sanchez Computer Associates, Sapiens, Sendmail and TIBCO.

Editor's Note: Compaq news releases are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.compaq.com. IBM news releases and fact sheets are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ibm.com. SCO news releases are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.sco.com. Additional information on IBM and Project Monterey can be found at http://www.ibm.com/servers/monterey