Sco`s UnixWare 7 powers high-volume Intel servers into the Data Center

During a CeBIT press conference today, SCO, together with leading enterprise partners, announced UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition - the most powerful and advanced server operating environment for volume Intel servers. It is the first operating system to fully exploit the new generation of Intel processors and a key milestone on the path to "Monterey 64".

"This release is an important milestone that marks a new era of data center computing," said Ray Anderson, senior vice president of Marketing at SCO.

"Today, SCO is delivering the power that volume Intel systems need to move into the data center. Large enterprises can now adopt a high-volume, standards-based environment that delivers top price/performance with the high reliability and scalability that is required for data center computing."

Built for Large Scale Computing UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition is designed and tuned for data center applications on the highest-end, multi-processing Intel servers, including unprecedented database performance for the demanding data mining and data warehousing tasks. It achieves levels of reliability, scalability and capacity never before seen in any volume operating system.

Rock-solid Reliability and Availability: System enhancements provide for 10,000 hours Mean Time Before Software Stops (MTBSS), translating into about one hour of planned and unplanned downtime per year, or 99.99% availability. With UnixWare clustering, downtime is virtually eliminated.

Unparalleled Scalability and Capacity: UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition ships standard with support for 32GB of main memory and eight processors. By licensing support for additional CPUs, these can be expanded to 64GB and 32 processors, which is far beyond the capabilities of other volume Intel based systems and beyond most RISC based UNIX systems.

UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition ships with licenses for 150 users, which can be dynamically extended by simply increasing the user license count to support thousands of users. Networking improvements have resulted in a significant increase in TCP/IP scalability and performance.

The new edition supports data center-class diagnostics with an SQL-based system and application event log and reporting tool. This provides for auditing and alert processing, using sophisticated query-based reporting mechanisms. Comprehensive management of complex data center environments can now be handled by extracting information using standard SQL-based tools. The system also includes built-in disk striping, mirroring and spanning.

"UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition addresses key customer needs by providing improved availability, reliability and scalability," said Mary McDowell, Vice President and General Manager, Industry Standard Server Division at Compaq Computer Corporation. "Customers requiring a highly reliable UNIX operating system on industry standard platforms are the ultimate beneficiaries of the UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition running on Compaq ProLiant servers." As part of the UnixWare 7 Release 7.1 product line, this edition includes the acclaimed Webtop, providing users with easy access to server-based applications from any browser, anywhere in the world. It delivers ultimate manageability for systems administrators, reducing applications deployment and maintenance time.

Leverages New Generation of Intel Power

UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition provides optimal support for the new generation of Intel processor-based systems. With new, high-powered 8-way Intel processor-based systems due later this year, UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition is already designed to maximize the performance capabilities of these servers.

Road to "Monterey 64"

SCO recognizes the investment its customers have made in 32-bit computing and provides a safe path to 64-bit computing on IA-64. UnixWare 7 is an integral component of "Project Monterey", an initiative with IBM, Intel and Sequent to deliver a single, volume UNIX product line for current and future 32-bit and 64-bit systems. The entire UnixWare 7 Release 7.1 product line serves as the base for future AIX technology updates as part of the Monterey family integration plans.

Enterprise Vendors Back UnixWare System

UnixWare is backed by leading enterprise OEMs, making it the most widely-supported UNIX system on the market today. Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, ICL, Siemens, Unisys and others have endorsed UnixWare for the enterprise. Enterprise ISVs such as BEA, CA, IBM, Informix, Oracle and many others have endorsed UnixWare as a powerdeployment platform for enterprise applications.

"Combining Oracle`s industry leading information management software with the scalability and reliability of UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition enables users to achieve new levels of power, performance and ease-of-use," said Raymond Wong, VP of Platform Technologies Division at Oracle Corporation. "Oracle, together with UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition, create an ideal platform for businesses running OLTP, electronic commerce, data warehousing and ERP applications."

@EditorNote = Editors note:

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, graphical terminals, NCs, and other devices - to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed Tarantella software, 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.