Title: SCO OpenServer
1SCO OpenServer Growth Strategy Paul Hurford,
Product ManagerMart Withers, Marketing Manager
2Agenda
- Company Overview
- Introducing Legend
- Legend Release Features
- SCO Update, Maintenance Supplements
- Project SVR6
- SCOx
- Update Options
- Market Demand
- Your Resources
3Company Overview
4Company Overview
Lindon, Utah SCOX 350 UNIX McDonalds, Target,
BMW, Kroger, Safeway, Nasdaq, Deutsche
Bahn 60,000,000 130 million 12.2 million .60
to 14.90 Earned 4 million during Q2 and Debt
Free
Headquarters Nasdaq Employees IP Assets Sample
Customers Annual Sales Market Cap Shares
Outstanding 52 Wk Trading Range Financials
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group
5Company Overview
SCOs strength is in simplifying
complex IT technologies that enable VARs and
developers to deliver cost effective solutions to
small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and branch
offices.
6 SCO Addresses Specific Verticals
Mass Merch.
Convenience
Pharmacy
Supermarkets
www.sco.com/company/success
7 SCO Addresses Specific Verticals
Manufacturing
Finance
Telephony
Specialty Retail
www.sco.com/company/success
8Third-Party Applications Made for SCO
- Telecom
- Apex Voice Communication
- Conference Call Serv.
- Telcordia Tech.
- Wildfire Comms. Systems
- Finance
- Abacus Systems
- Accountix
- Credit Systems
- Infonancial Software
- Open Systems Accounting
- ParaData Financial Systems
- Profitmaster Canada
- Retail
- ACR Systems
- Geac Restaurant Systems
- High Touch
- ICM Systems
- Micros Systems
- Reynolds Reynolds
- Master Merchant
- PCMS
- Medical
- American Healthnet
- Clinical Computing
- Health Business Systems
- Health Care Computer
- Medic Computer Systems
- Medical Manager
- PDX Pharmacy
- Tech Rx
www.sco.com/solutions
9SCOs UNIX Strategy
- SCO UNIX products are the backbone of many of the
global Fortune 500 - Concentrate on core SCO UNIX business
- Increase focus on OEM, ISV, and IHV partnerships
to provide solutions to our customers - Emphasize SCO UNIX superior integration,
reliability, security, and scalability - Extend total cost of ownership advantages
- SCOx Web Services and SVR6 extend the SCO UNIX
roadmap - Expand professional services and support
10Introducing LegendThe code name for the Next
SCO OpenServer Release
11- Heros get Remembered
- But
- Legends never die
- The Sandlot, 1993 - The Babe (Art LaFleur)
-
12Legend Design Considerations
13Legend Design Considerations
Innovative Designs
14Legend Design Considerations
Rugged Designs
15Legend Design Considerations
But we really wanted a design that would BLOW
Away any past release of OpenServer
16Legend Design Considerations
17Legend The Next Release of SCO OpenServer
- Increased investment in SCOs highest revenue
generating product - Maintain rock-solid stability
- Massively extended to become an SVR6 Operating
Environment - Focused and targeted at new application and
hardware support - Meet todays and tomorrows growing business
demands
18Legend Release Features
19The Road to
5.0.7 Supplement CD 1
Legend Release
Calendar Quarters
20Legend The Next Release of SCO OpenServer
- Hardware support
- Security
- Database, Java, and Application support
- Web
21Legend Hardware Feature Set
- USB Printer support
- Internet Printing Protocol support (CUPS)
- Many new printer drivers
- New and updated HBAs (lsil, slha, ad320)
- Enhanced SATA support
- Katmai Prescot multimedia instruction set
support
- Support for more than 2 IDE controllers
- Full ACPI support
- BTLD from CD-ROM
- BTLD with native UDI drivers
- Pro DVD Record
- Joliet CDFS support
- Greater than 4Ghz CPU support
22Legend Security Feature Set
- IPsec Internet Protocol Security
- VPN Virtual Private Network
- PAM NSS (Pluggable Authentication Modules
Name Service Switch)
23Legend Database, Java and Application Support
- Our Goals for Legend are Clear
- Kernel-level threads
- User-level threads
- Large file support (greater than 2GB)
- MySQL
24Legend Web Feature Set
- Complete reliable Web Support
- Apache 2
- Java 1.4
- Mozilla 1.x
- Java plug-in for Mozilla
25Legend Infrastructure Feature Set
- Native port of the UnixWare compiler
- GCC 3
- Optimized for latest Pentium CPUs
- BIND 9 with h2n for easy configuration
- Termcap entries for UnixWare 7 and Linux
- Improved Windows compatibility
26SCO Update Information Release Schedule
27Update Options
- For SCO OpenServer Releases
- Purchase SCO Update bundled with the OS (15
additional) - Purchase SCO Update as a standalone product (20
additional)
28Update Options - Definitions
- Supplement Release -
- Update Pack - A license for the next full OS
release with new features delivered in 3 4
month increments - Maintenance Pack - A Free package of updated
device drivers, bug fixes, etc. - Stand alone package updates - A Free package of
the latest standalone Open Source packages,
BTLDs, etc.
29SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Update Pack 1
- Released on Web July 30, 2003
- Hyper-threading support
- Large ATA disk support (greater than 137GB)
- Install to root partitions above 1024 cylinders
- New shells bash, zsh, tcsh
30SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Maintenance Pack 1
- Released on Web July 30, 2003
- Software Manager supports SCO Update
- Intel PRO/1000 PCI Ethernet adapters
- NVIDIA RIVA TNT2, Vanta, and GeForce
chipset-based video adapters - Graphics, Web and X11 library enhancements
- Perl 5.8.0 with new XML components
- Apache 1.3.28
31SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Supplement CD
- Scheduled for September 2003
- Update Pack 1
- Maintenance Pack 1
- Adaptec Ultra320 (ad320) driver
- Enhanced IDE (wd) driver
- Java 1.3.1_08
- Samba 2.2.8
32SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Update Pack 2
- Scheduled for a November 2003 release
- Feature Candidates
- Internet Printing Protocol support (CUPS)
Network printer support - DNS Parser (h2n) Easy configuration of DNS
- Serial ATA Assurance Testing Ensure legacy
Serial ATA is supported - Katmai New Instructions (KNI) support Allow
applications to take advantage of the extended
multi-media instructions
33SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Update Pack 3
- Scheduled for a March 2004 release
- Feature Candidates
- USB printer support Needed for POS printers,
etc. - Support for more than 2 IDE controllers Common
customer request for more storage devices - SCOadmin FTP Manager Graphical administration
of FTP server - BIND 9 With h2n for easy configuration
- Posix-compliant user-level threads library
Supplemented with full kernel threads in Legend
release - ProDVD Record Ability to write to DVDs
- Joliet CD filesystem Additional industry
standard CD format
34SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Update Pack 4
- Scheduled for a July 2004 release
- Feature Candidates
- Large file support (greater than 2GB)
- gimp-print
- GCC 3
- Samba 3
- Apache 2
- Java 1.4
- 32-bit FAT support
- PAM/NSS
- IPsec
- VPN
- MySQL
35SCO OpenServer Legend Baseline Release
- Scheduled for an October 2004 release
- Traditional OS and new SVR6 OE Editions
- Kernel threads
- Optimized for latest Pentium CPUs
- Full ACPI support
- Greater than 4Ghz CPU support
- Rollup of Update Packs 1, 2, 3 and 4
36Project SVR6
37System V Release 6
The real future of UNIX isnt the operating
system, but the stack of services and
applications that runs atop it. David Coursey
- The next generation of platform technology from
SCO - The first truly complete operating environment
from device support to middleware - Powered by the same UNIX operating system
technology you know and trust
38SVR6 Operating Environment Summary
- Based around existing SCO operating systems
- Provides core management and middleware services
- Provides a suite of horizontal solutions to allow
for server consolidation opportunities - Contains an environment allowing the development
of next-generation clustered Web applications - Integrates and plays well with existing
Microsoft networks - Unrivaled and expanded security
- Provides a friendly graphical look and feel for
both users and administrators that follows modern
desktop OS paradigms
39SCOxSCOx Web Services Grow Your Business
40The SCOx Strategy
Building Technology and Programs that
enable companies to grow their business, connect
to customers, and integrate with suppliers
using specialized Web services.
41- A framework that enables, expands and extends
- your business through Web services
- SCOx enables the cost-effective implementation of
complex technologies - Delivers best-of-breed business applications and
online services - SCOx expands the reach of solution providers to a
broader market - Allows partners and developers to work with
existing and future applications - SCOx extends the functionality of applications to
the Web - Resides in a hybrid environment online, onsite
or both
SCOx Web Service Solutions Grow your Business!
42Market Demand
43Marketing Initiatives
- Highly Qualified Leads
- Ready-to-use Templates and Campaigns
- City-to-City Tour
- Product Web Seminars
- Solutions Focus
- Success Stories
- Upgrade Campaign
- Vendor Recruitment
- Vertical Markets
44Your Resources
45Contact Information
- Paul HurfordProduct Managerpaulhu_at_sco.com1-831
-427-7583
- Mart WithersMarketing Managermwithers_at_sco.com1
-801-932-5427
46More Information
- Brochure
- Compatible Hardware
- Letter from SCO CEO
- New Features
- Software Downloads
- Success Stories
- Third-Party Applications
www.sco.com/products/openserver 1-800-SCO-UNIX
47Other Sessions
- Birds of a Feather
Monday, 830 PM
Room 203 - Leveraging the Strengths of UnixWare and
OpenServerTuesday, 130 PM and 245 PMRoom
303
48Thank You for Your Participation
49The Road to Legend
- OpenServer 5.0.7 Feb 21, 2003
- Update Pack 1 - July 30, 2003
- Maintenance Pack 1 - July 30, 2003
- Supplement CD - August 29, 2003
- Update Pack 2 - November 2003
- Update Pack 3 - March 2004
- Maintenance Pack 2 - March, 2004
- Update Pack 4 - July, 2004
- Legend Beta - Forum 2004
- Legend Release - October 2004
- Legend UP-1 - February, 2005
- Legend MP-1 - February, 2005
- Legend Supplement 1 - Mar, 2005
- Legend UP-2 - July, 2005
- Legend UP-3 - October, 2005
- Follow-on Release to Legend baseline