Now in Its Third Year, SCO's Free UNIX Program is One of Several Giveaway
Programs at SCO Website
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., SCO FORUM98, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- As SCO
(Nasdaq: SCOC) approaches 3 million total server shipments, the company today
announced that it has also shipped its 100,000th free UNIX operating system,
as part of its "SCO Free Offers" program. The program, now in its third year,
provides students, educators, and UNIX system enthusiasts around the world
with free access to the most advanced and fastest growing server operating
system for the Intel platform, UnixWare 7, and the world's leading UNIX server
operating system in unit shipments according to IDC -- OpenServer (IDC does
not count free operating systems in its shipment data). The free systems are
licensed for personal and non-commercial use only, and include, among other
features, Netscape FastTrack Server(TM), allowing users to run their own
personal Web server. The "SCO Free Offers" program accepts online orders via
the Web at http://www.sco.com/offers.
"Our SCO Free Offers program is one of several free-license programs that
we offer," said Ray Anderson, SCO's senior vice president of Marketing, "and
it has been a great success. We constantly receive e-mail from students and
educators who thank us enthusiastically for providing them with an easy and
affordable way to explore the advanced Internet and UNIX System technologies
built into SCO's UnixWare and OpenServer systems. I first learned about UNIX
Systems years ago at the University of Cambridge in England because AT&T made
early versions of the system available free-of-charge to colleges and
universities. Now, as owner of the UNIX System licensing business, It has
been a great pleasure to pass this favor on to the next generation of
students, educators, and software enthusiasts."
Free UNIX System Source Licenses Also Available
For software enthusiasts who like to explore the history of UNIX Systems
via source code, SCO also offers personal-use source-code licenses for
"ancient" versions of the UNIX System, including the Mini UNIX operating
system; the UNIX V6 operating system; the PWB UNIX operating system; and the
UNIX V7 operating system, which also covers Editions 1-5, and the 32V. A $100
fee (which can be waived, upon application, for students or other financial
hardship cases) is charged to offset cost of legal and administrative handling
of the license. Interested parties should visit the PDP Unix Preservation
Society Web site at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/ for information on
source code availability.
Free UNIX Systems for Universities and Colleges
SCO's Academic Seeding Program offers software, curricula, certification
programs, and more to educational institutions planning to offer courses that
meet the increasing student demand for professional UNIX System training. To
become a program member, institutions need to complete an SCO Academic Program
application, and upon receipt of it online, SCO sends licensing agreements and
additional information about curricula, certification programs, and support
options. For more information, see the website at http://www.sco.com/academic.
Free Downloads of SCO Client Integration Software and Other Products
SCO also offers anyone the opportunity to try its suite of SCO Vision97
products for integrating Windows and UNIX Systems. The products include SCO
XVision Eclipse, SCO TermVision, SCO VisionFS, SCO SQL-Retriever. The
software can be downloaded for free thirty-day evaluation at
http://www.sco.com/vision/eval. In addition, SCO offers free downloads of many other
products for 60-day evaluation. For more information, see
http://www.sco.com/products. From time to time, SCO also offers free pre-release
versions of new software for testing and evaluation. Most of the UnixWare
7 product family will install and run in 60-day evaluation mode with no
additional licensing. SCO also offers an extensive archive of free software
from the Internet technical communities, including source code, in the
Skunkware(TM) archives. This software now is also distributed on CD-ROM with
SCO product media kits.
Free Memberships in SCO Developer Program
SCO also offers free memberships in its Developer Program. Benefits
include product discounts of up to 70% on development system software;
listings in the SCO Directory, updated daily and available on the Web; the
Core Dump newsletter, containing code samples, programming tips and tricks,
developer success stories, and additional useful information focused
specifically at the developer community; "Channel Connections," which enables
developers to put product information in the hands of SCO resellers, vertical
solution providers, and advanced product centers; early availability programs,
which give developers early access to SCO technologies and products, including
operating systems and development kits. Optional services include technical
support, access to SCO Advanced Development Centers for application migration,
software testing, device driver development and more.
About SCO
SCO is the world's number one provider of UNIX server operating systems,
and the leading provider of network computing software that enables clients of
all kinds -- including, PCs, X terminals, NCs, and other devices -- to have
Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all
kinds. SCO designed Tarantella software, the world's first application broker
for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a
worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs.
For more information, see SCO's WWW home page at: http://www.sco.com
SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, the SCO logo, UnixWare and SCO OpenServer
are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in
the USA and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group
in the US and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be
trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their
respective owners.
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CONTACT:
Monika Laud, Director, Public Relations of
SCO, 831-427-7421, monikal@sco.com
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