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1 SCO OpenServer™ Growth Strategy Paul Hurford, Product Manager Mart Withers, Marketing Manager
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2 Agenda Company Overview Introducing ‘Legend’ ‘Legend’ Release Features SCO Update, Maintenance & Supplements Project SVR6 SCOx Update Options Market Demand Your Resources
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3 Company Overview
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4 Lindon, Utah SCOX 350 UNIX ® McDonald’s, 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
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5 Company Overview SCO’s 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.
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6 Mass Merch. Convenience PharmacySupermarkets SCO Addresses Specific Verticals www.sco.com/company/success
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7 ManufacturingFinanceTelephonySpecialty Retail SCO Addresses Specific Verticals www.sco.com/company/success
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8 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 Third-Party Applications ‘Made for SCO’ www.sco.com/solutions
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9 SCO’s 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
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10 Introducing ‘Legend’ The code name for the Next SCO OpenServer Release
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11 “Hero’s get Remembered But Legends never die” The Sandlot, 1993 - The Babe (Art LaFleur)
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12 Legend Design Considerations We Studied Failed Designs Really BAD Attempts To Fix failed Designs
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13 Legend Design Considerations Innovative Designs
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14 Legend Design Considerations Rugged Designs
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15 Legend Design Considerations But we really wanted a design that would BLOW Away any past release of OpenServer
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16 Legend Design Considerations
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17 Legend – The Next Release of SCO OpenServer Increased investment in SCO’s 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 today’s and tomorrow’s growing business demands
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18 ‘Legend’ Release Features
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19 ‘ Legend’ Release The Road to Calendar Quarters Q1 ‘03 Q2 ‘03Q3 ‘03Q4 ‘03 Q2 ‘04Q1 ‘04 Q1 ‘05 Q2 ‘05Q3 ‘05Q4 ‘05 Q4 ‘04Q3 ‘04 ‘ Legend’ Beta Forum 2004 Update 4 5.0.7 Supplement CD #1 Update 2 5.0.7 Supplement CD #2 Legend Update 1 Legend Update 2 Legend Supplement CD #1 OpenServer 5.0.7 Maintenance Pack 1 Update 1 Update 3 5.0.7 Supplement CD #3 Potential Maintenance Pack 2
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20 Legend – The Next Release of SCO OpenServer Hardware support Security Database, Java ®, and Application support Web
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21 Legend – 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
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22 Legend – Security Feature Set IPsec – Internet Protocol Security VPN – Virtual Private Network PAM + NSS (Pluggable Authentication Modules + Name Service Switch)
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23 Legend – Database, Java and Application Support Our Goals for Legend are Clear Kernel-level threads User-level threads Large file support (greater than 2GB) MySQL
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24 Legend – Web Feature Set Complete reliable Web Support Apache 2 Java 1.4 Mozilla 1.x Java plug-in for Mozilla
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25 Legend – 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
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26 SCO Update Information & Release Schedule
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27 Update Options For SCO OpenServer Releases Purchase SCO Update bundled with the OS (15% additional) Purchase SCO Update as a standalone product (20% additional)
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28 Update 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.
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29 SCO 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
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30 SCO 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
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31 SCO 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
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32 SCO 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
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33 SCO 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
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34 SCO 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
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35 SCO 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
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36 Project SVR6
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37 System V Release 6 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 “The real future of UNIX ® isn’t the operating system, but the stack of services and applications that runs atop it.” David Coursey
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38 SVR6 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
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39 SCOx SCOx Web Services Grow Your Business
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40 The SCOx Strategy Building Technology and Programs that enable companies to grow their business, connect to customers, and integrate with suppliers using specialized Web services.
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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!
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42 Market Demand
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43 Marketing 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
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44 Your Resources
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45 Contact Information Paul Hurford Product Manager paulhu@sco.com +1-831-427-7583 Mart Withers Marketing Manager mwithers@sco.com +1-801-932-5427
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46 More 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
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47 Other Sessions “Birds of a Feather” Monday, 8:30 PM Room #203 “Leveraging the Strengths of UnixWare and OpenServer” Tuesday, 1:30 PM and 2:45 PM Room #303
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48 Thank You for Your Participation
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49 The 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
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