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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 11, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 32

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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:

SCO Deploys OpenServer Kernel Personality

The SCO Group, Inc., the owner of the UNIX operating system, announced the availability of OpenServer Kernel Personality (OKP) for customers who want the additional power of UnixWare for their OpenServer applications. Building upon the reliability of OpenServer, UnixWare provides the capability for OpenServer applications to leverage the increased scalability, performance, CPU support, and clustering technology available for UnixWare without the need to invest in costly migration projects.

OKP contains Xenix compatibility and supports OpenServer 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.0.6 and the latest 5.0.7 release. Many applications that were written for current and older versions of OpenServer, including SCO UNIX, SCO OpenDesktop, that run on OpenServer 5.0.4 or later release, will run on OKP. "OpenServer has an excellent track record and reputation for reliability and availability and it continues to be developed and maintained. OKP on UnixWare helps customers gain greater uptime because UnixWare 7.1.3 supports hot plug CPU, hot add memory, and hot plug PCI thus eliminating unnecessary downtime," said Janet Sullivan, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, for SCO. "For customers that have a need for these benefits, OKP is ideal because it protects your investment in OpenServer applications and avoids costly end-user re-training."

"OKP provides more choices for OpenServer customers," said Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president of marketing, SCO. "They can choose to continue to update their OpenServer environments, or they can use UnixWare 7.1.3 with OKP. Either way, the customer is assured that their investment in OpenServer applications is protected."

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