To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76725 ) 3/18/1999 2:31:00 PM From: Paul Engel Respond to of 186894
Tenchusatsu & Intel Investors - Meanwhile, Unix For Intel Servers Continues to advance. SCO is demoing at CeBIT their new version of UnixWare. Hint to SCUM bria - they DID NOT DEMO it on the 600 MHz K7. Note that the updated version of UnixWare is designed to run on the upcoming 8-Way Intel-based servers using the new Profusion Chip Set. Paul {===========================} infoworld.com SCO pulls curtain on UnixWare 7 data center By Terho Uimonen InfoWorld Electric Posted at 8:51 AM PT, Mar 18, 1999 HANOVER, Germany -- SCO Thursday introduced a high-end version of its UnixWare operating system for data center applications on servers powered by Intel processors. Aimed squarely at the enterprise market, UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition is the most powerful operating system for high-end Intel servers to hit the market, SCO officials said here at the opening day of the CeBit trade show. Designed to run on servers powered by multiple Intel processors, the latest addition to the UnixWare line will allow enterprises to benefit from the lower costs resulting from standard hardware and service offerings available from multiple vendors, said Doug Michels, SCO's president and CEO. "It gives the power back to the end-user," Michels said. "The bottom line is lower costs and better systems at better prices." In related news, Intel is readying to ship the long-awaited Profusion chip set, which will allow up to eight-way servers, doubling the processor count in Intel-based servers. The first eight-way servers designed around the Profusion chip set are scheduled to hit the market by mid-year, said Pat Gelsinger, vice president and general manager of the company's desktop products group. Representatives from several hardware vendors, including Compaq, IBM, ICL, Sequent Computer Systems, and Unisys, said they plan to offer the data center edition of UnixWare to enterprise customers. Shipments of SCO's version of the Unix operating system last year grew 58.5 percent during 1997, faster than any other Unix offering on the server market, according to Framingham, Mass.-based market researcher International Data Corp. (IDC). And with Thursday's announcement "UnixWare is moving upmarket," said Dan Kusnetzky, program director, operating environments and server software at IDC. UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition ships in standard configuration with support for up to 32GB of main memory and eight processors. Available now, the server operating system is priced at $9,999 with licenses for 150 users. SCO, in Santa Cruz, Calif., can be reached at www.sco.com. Terho Uimonen is a correspondent in the Taipei, Taiwan, bureau of the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Related articles: "Pentium III Xeon gets thumb's up from app vendors" Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Deputy News Editor, Carolyn April Copyright © 1999 InfoWorld Media Group Inc. InfoWorld Electric is a member of IDG.net