SCO today announced new UnixWare 7 products that reduce the cost and complexity of computing in small and medium businesses (SMB). The products, including an innovative new Webtop, are aimed at businesses and solution builders who want to exploit network computing, rather than spend time administrating traditional client/server-systems. UnixWare 7, Release 7.1 enables them to focus on the efficient delivery of applications and information.
Shipping in March 1999, the new products provide the capabilities that today's businesses demand to remain competitive: universal access, ease of use, low cost, capacity to handle growth, and interoperability with existing environments.
UnixWare 7 Release 7.1 products include the brand new UnixWare 7 Business Edition, as well as UnixWare 7 Departmental Edition. Release 7.1 features the industry`s first integrated Webtop. It is based on the SCO award-winning Tarantella technology and delivers faster and easier access to information than ever before.
"Today's announcement is a milestone for SCO and customers, said Doug Michels, president and CEO of SCO. SCO has the product expertise to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of small-to-medium business computing, and also has a proven partner base to make these products successful. These partners, including thousands of specialist VARs and solution builders, drive an estimated five-billion-dollar annual hardware and software business. This is a very compelling product offering for partners who want to grow and expand their businesses.
The Webtop is a hot thing, said Ray Anderson, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing at SCO. Its exactly what users, administrators and ISVs need, and only SCO delivers it. Businesses are trapped by complexity. UnixWare 7 releases them from that trap.
Strong Industry Support
"UnixWare 7 Release 7.1 will give small businesses the ability to immediately leverage the power of the Internet," said Sandy Carter, director of IBM`s Partners In Development program for Netfinity servers. "We think that UnixWare 7 Release 7.1 coupled with our Netfinity server hardware will deliver a powerful e-business solution to our customers. "
The new UnixWare 7 products are generating strong industry support. Key ISVs and leading OEMs are supporting the rollout by participating in a series of more than sixty events worldwide to demonstrate the benefits to customers and resellers.
Utility Computing for Small and Medium Businesses The shift to network computing, pioneered by SCO and other companies, has enabled a new form of "utility computing" where a server is not unlike a telephone or electric utility. These servers must invisibly and reliably deliver applications and information to users, just as the major utilities deliver telephone service and electricity to consumers.
As a network computing server, UnixWare 7 has already achieved great success in mid-range and enterprise markets. According to IDC, UnixWare unit sales grew faster than any other UNIX system, and faster than Windows NT server in 1998. In addition, SCO has achieved great success with the SCO OpenServer product line, which is the world`s most popular UNIX system. Now, SCO aims to build on this success by delivering the new versions of UnixWare 7 with its channel partners into the volume SMB market (businesses from 10 to approximately 500 employees).
Ease of Use
UnixWare 7 delivers existing or new applications with unparalleled ease-of-use. With its unique Webtop interface, UnixWare 7, Release 7.1 does not require users to learn how to access remote systems, run emulators, or launch client software. Users simply use their web browser to access applications on the UnixWare 7 server.
Ease of Access The Webtop follows the user everywhere, whatever their device, providing a stable environment of applications, information, and Web links, whether in the office on a desktop PC, from home on an iMac, or on the road at an Internet kiosk.
Handling Growth
UnixWare 7 supports straightforward business growth. The capacity to grow to 50, 500, even 5,000 users is already available in the UnixWare 7 software. Companies can grow with no disruption to their current operations.
Protecting and Leveraging Investments UnixWare 7 servers can easily plug in to a network and be accessed from Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux, NC, and any other network client including dumb-screens, bar-code scanners and point of sale devices, medical instruments and badge readers. UnxiWare 7 servers easily integrate with existing servers on a network including Windows NT, NetWare and other UNIX servers.
For more information on the new UnixWare 7 release 7.1 products see http://www.sco.com/unixware/
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