SCO, COMPAQ UNVEIL UNIXWARE 7 MIGRATION PORTAL FOR RESELLERS.Unix software developer SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. last week unveiled the UnixWare 7 Migration Portal to assist resellers and developers in optimizing applications and solutions for the UnixWare 7 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . The Portal offers free online "Ask an Engineer" assistance, tools, and services to allow resellers to quickly bring their SCO OpenServer A server operating system for the Intel platform from SCO. It is based on Unix System V Release 3.2 and includes the Motif and X Window user interfaces and standard Unix networking (TCP/IP, NFS and NIS). SCO OpenServer has optional SMP support for up to 30 processors. Release 5 customer base to the UnixWare 7 platform. The Portal will also provide tools to help ISV's port their SCO OpenServer Release 5 applications to the UnixWare 7 platform. The Migration Portal is located at www.sco.com/migration. "Current SCO Resellers and ISVs running SCO OpenServer Release 5 will benefit greatly from the free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. See also: Free available through the UnixWare 7 Migration Portal," says Edmundo Costa, vice president of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and Alliance Management at SCO. "The Portal will make it easier for our resellers and ISVs to tap into new business opportunities now available, such as UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters and industry-leading scalability on the latest generation of eight-way systems." Resellers and developers who use the UnixWare 7 Migration Portal will join top ISVs and hardware manufacturers supporting the UnixWare 7 platform. Their customers will have the advantage of using the latest generation of hardware and software designed for the IA-32 platform. Customers will have the added benefit of a built-in path to Monterey/64 - a volume UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services being jointly developed by SCO and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) for the Intel Itanium 64-bit microprocessor. "The UnixWare 7 Migration Portal is great news for Savoir and our customers," says Mark A. Martin, vice president of sales at Savoir Technology. "The Portal will make it extremely easy to give our reseller base the option to move to UnixWare 7 in record time. It will also ease the transition to Monterey/64 when it is released." The UnixWare 7 Migration Portal is a joint initiative between Compaq Computer Corp. and SCO. The service provides free online information to help with migration concerns and questions. SCO and Compaq will also have the Migration Engineering Team available to respond to migration questions by the next business day. Additionally, users will be able to take advantage of the community aspect of the portal by asking peers for advice on the web-based bulletin board. "Making applications available on UnixWare 7 will help SCO and Compaq customers take advantage of high performance and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. ," says Brad Anderson, vice president of Small and Medium Business Servers at Compaq Computer Corp. "The SMB market is heating up and customers demand a system that gives them applications that have proven functionality in that market, that will take them into the rapidly expanding e-business market. UnixWare 7 installed on Compaq Servers meet these demands." |
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