Title: SCO OpenServer Paul Hurford Product Manager
1SCO OpenServerPaul HurfordProduct Manager
2SCO OpenServer Roadmap
Q203
2001
Q102
Q202
Q302
Q402
Q103
Q303
OpenServer 5.0.6a
OpenServer 5.0.7
Merge 5.3.x
Deliverable and supportable or in final
test/manufacturing
Not deliverable or supportable. May be used as a
technology preview or BETA.
Development /Planning
3OpenServer 5.0.7 New Features
Improved Hardware support
- USB support integrated and enhanced
- USB 2.0 support (EHCI)
- USB 1.1 support (OHCI, UHCI)
- Bootable USB CDs
- Class Drivers for
- Hubs, Keyboard, Mice, CD-ROMS, Floppy, Mass
storage devices, LS-120 and LS-240
- UDMA 100/133 support
- Writeable EIDE CD-RW Support (Microlite, Corp.)
- New and updated PC-Card and Card-Bus support
- PCI serial and parallel card support for legacy
free platforms - LS-120, LS-240 support
4OpenServer 5.0.7 New Features
- UDI Supplement updated and integrated
- New and updated graphics, network, and HBA
drivers - New Network Services
- Samba, Squid, OpenSSL, OpenSSH
- Updated Network Services
- BIND, FTP, IP Filter
- Apache updated and integrated (with XML, PHP,
mod_perl) - New online documentation system - DocView
- Updated portions of libc from UW7.1.3
- New GNU compilers, debug, linkers, libraries
- New Java JDK 1.3.1
- Mozilla
- Lynx
5OpenServer 5.0.7 New Features
- Java runtime installed in the base product
- gwxlibs a collection of libraries that make it
much easier to port Open Source software to
OpenServer - New UDK 7.1.3 (OUDK Successor)
- Maintenance and Security fixes
- Enabled for Electronic Maintenance and Updates
- Volution Manger(VM) Client Bundled With OS
- Allows VM to distribute and manage maintenance
and new SCO Update Service packs
6OpenServer 5.0.7 New Features
Processor and chip set support
- PIII SW HE-SL
- 2 4 GB PC-133
- PCI 64/66 Hz
- 10 x 100 Ethernet
- 2xU160 (LSI)
- Pentium 4 w/ 860 chipset CQ1-03
- 2/6 GB DRDRAM/DDR266 (support to 4GB)
- PCI-X, without hot plug support
- 10/100 or Kenai-64
7OpenServer 5.0.7 New Features
- Pentium 4 (845 Chipset)
- No Native Graphics Support but VESA compatible
- 2GB DDR 200
- 32/33 PCI
- (Kenai-32 Ethernet) IDE
- Xeon E7500
- 6 8 GB Mem DDR200 16 GB DDR266 (support to
4GB) - PCI-X
- GigE (Kenai-64) 2xGigE (Anvik) CQ1-03
- 2xU160 (LSI)
- OpenServer Supports
- Up to 4GB memory
- Up to 4 CPUs
- Support is near linear to 4 CPUs achieving an
average 90 scalability - Greater than 4 CPU support has not been tested.
8OpenServer 5.0.7 Optional Services and
Development Systems
9OpenServer 5.0.7 Optional Services
- Optional Services
- Windows 98 and Me emulation with new Merge 5.3
- AFPS
- Samba
- Squid
10Development Systems for OpenServer
- OpenServer Development System - OSR Base CD
- For development of legacy apps and native device
drivers - UnixWare Development Kit Separate CD in OSR
Media Kit - Cross development platform
- GNU Compiler - OSR Base CD
- For development of Open Source applications and
New application development
11SCO Update Packs for OpenServer 5.0.7
12OpenServer Future Plans
Update Packs Available at regular intervals
(Target Quarterly)
- Update Pack 1 Candidates
- Hyper-threading
- ACPI (partial support)
- BIND 9 (security)
- CPU chipset support for 4ghz
- SSE/SSE2/SIMD register preservation
- Update Pack 2 Candidates
- Apache 2
- Mozilla update
- Sendmail update
- Perl update
- Samba 3
- Printable Documentation
13NetTraverse Merge 5.3 for OpenServer and
UnixWare
14NetTraverse Merge 5.3
- Supported Releases
- UnixWare 7.1.3
- Open UNIX 8.0 (UnixWare 7.1.2)
- SCO OpenServer 5.0.7
- SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a
- Runs Windows applications under OpenServer,
UnixWare and Open UNIX - Brings Windows productivity applications to UNIX
- Runs native Windows as a guest OS
- Windows applications run exactly as native.
- Multiple users each have own copy of Windows in a
virtual PC
15NetTraverse Merge 5.3 New Features
- Support for Windows Me and Windows 98
- New and more flexible window resizing options
- Automatic creation of D drive for user data
- DHCP over VNET with OpenServer
- Serial line speeds up to 115,200 baud
- Increased available Windows memory to 128Mb
- Sound support with OpenServer
- Wheel Mouse Support
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