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SCO Extends Partnership With Ericom Software

The SCO Group Inc, the owner of the UNIX operating system and a provider of UNIX-based solutions, announced that it has extended its strategic partnership with Ericom Software, a provider of advanced Web and wireless integration and Host Connectivity solutions by releasing the SCOx Web Services Substrate (WSS) on UNIX platforms. The SCOx WSS toolset combines the best in Web Services technology from both SCO and Ericom, allowing SCO UNIX customers to easily transform legacy applications and databases into new feature-rich Web and wireless applications. Currently, there are a significant number of SCO UNIX customers utilizing legacy systems -- equaling several hundred thousand installed servers -- that could benefit from this innovative solution.

SCO UNIX customers that upgrade to SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 automatically gain access to an innovative toolset that is specifically designed to help customers grow their business, connect with partners and integrate with suppliers using specialized Web Services. A separate release of the SCOx WSS will be announced soon for users of OpenServer 5.0.7 Supplement C. This combined SCO/Ericom product offering delivers the tools, applications and infrastructure to enhance Web and wireless access to legacy systems and databases.

SCO and Ericom Software have teamed up to deliver state-of-the-art Web Services technology on SCO UNIX platforms through SCOx WSS. Currently shipping on UnixWare 7.1.4, SCOx WSS consists of SCO WebFace, SQL Encapsulator, Web Application Manager and Ericom PowerTerm Host Publisher.

"The SCOx WSS framework helps resellers and developers who want to meet their SMB and branch office customer needs for sophisticated Web-based solutions while leveraging their existing products and services," said Olaf Janssens, president of Janssens Consulting. "This combined product offering -- built from the SCO/Ericom strategic partnership -- is packed with powerful tools that can create Web Services rapidly, saving weeks, months and even years in redeveloping business logic. SCOx WSS customers on UnixWare 7.1.4 can now reuse, rather than replace their proven legacy system data and immediately begin integrating it with any other system or database on the Web."

"The release of the SCOx Web Services Substrate marks an important milestone in our relationship with SCO," said Eran Heyman, CEO and founder of Ericom Software. "PowerTerm Host Publisher's inclusion in the SCOx WSS is a key element in helping SCO customers, resellers and developers easily unlock the power of their mission-critical legacy applications and integrate it with other applications via the Web. The best part about the solution is that it doesn't require customers to change their existing legacy application -- SCOx WSS simply hooks into the system and wraps the business logic up into reusable Web Services."

"The challenge for most mission-critical legacy systems is that they are difficult to integrate with other data or systems without re-writing the entire application," said Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president and general manager of the UNIX Division for The SCO Group. "By combining the best of SCO's own Web Services technologies and Ericom's PowerTerm Host Publisher, SCO customers that choose to upgrade, now gain the ability to easily unlock critical legacy data and business logic and integrate it with other systems and databases within their business without re-writing their entire legacy system."