SCO UnixWare 7

Overview
Announced in March 1997, UnixWare 7 is the latest UNIX operating system from SCO, the world’s leading UNIX provider. The UnixWare 7 system delivers a multi-functional, scalable UNIX operating environment based on the SVR5 kernel, with tightly integrated enterprise networking services which are ideal for business critical computing. UnixWare 7 is designed to support diverse clients, to scale from small office server configurations to large scale enterprise servers and to provide high levels of reliability, availability and serviceability. UnixWare 7 provides Compaq server customers a powerful UNIX platform, not only today, but will also in the future, with the planned delivery of a full 64-bit version concurrent with the Intel Merced processor release.

Product Configurations
UnixWare 7 has been optimized for medium to large organizations looking for highly reliable, scalable and performant departmental performance and enterprise business server solutions. The UnixWare 7 product family consists of "purpose-built" operating system configurations that are complimented by a range of optional services and development tools. The UnixWare 7 operating system configuration includes:

• Enterprise Edition: For high-end enterprise servers to run large-scale business applications and databases for decision support and on-line transaction processing.
• Departmental Edition: For departmental servers in medium or large organizations to run applications and reliably share business critical information with any client including PCs, NCs, terminals and any Java-enabled browser client.
• Intranet Edition: An industrial strength intranet/Internet server for enterprise wide web publishing and it is an ideal foundation for e-commerce, extranet and Internet applications.
• Messaging Edition: For departmental and enterprise-wide Internet mail and messaging servers with powerful and reliable remote messaging capabilities, universal client access and simplified administration via built-in directory services.
• Base Edition: A solid foundation for building dedicated or specialized server environments, such as telecommunications equipment and other embedded systems. It also excels as a powerful graphical workstation.

In the second half of 1998, a "purpose-built" configuration of UnixWare 7 will be available for the small and medium business and replicated site markets (the primary focus of today’s SCO OpenServer Release 5 business). For these markets, additional migration tools for SCO OpenServer will be provided to enable customers to move to UnixWare 7 at there own pace and with maximum investment protection.

UnixWare 7 can be purchased from any SCO Authorized Reseller. For a complete listing, please visit www.sco.com.

Minimum System Requirements
Processor    486DX
Memory    32 MB
Disk Space   500 MB

Maximum Expandability
Processor   32X
Memory   64 GB (addressable)
Disk Space  78,600 TB
File Size   1 TB

SCO UnixWare 7 Layered Products Internet Services

• Netscape Navigator Gold
• Netscape Communicator 4.0
• Netscape FastTrack
• Netscape Enterprise Server 3.5
• Netscape Directory Server 3.5
• Tarantella (1-user license)
• Java Development Kit, Workshop, Studio

File and Print Services

• VisionFS (Windows file and print)
• Advanced File and Print Server (Windows client/server solutions)
• TermLite (Terminal Emulation)
• NetWare Services
• Mail and Messaging
• Netscape Messaging Server 3.5

Reliability, Availability and Scalability Services:

• UnixWare 7 Disk Mirroring
• Online Data Manager (Online storage management with RAID)
• ARCserve/Open (Automated, Unattended Backup)

Compaq and SCO engineers have worked closely together to ensure that SCO UNIX systems run optimally on Compaq hardware, and to deliver the utilities and tools necessary to lower the customer’s total cost of ownership.

Compaq SmartStart
Compaq SmartStart is an integration tool that configures Compaq hardware and prepares it for software installation. Customers can benefit from SmartStart regardless of where their operating system was purchased. UnixWare 7 customers get the following benefits when using SmartStart 3.60 and later:

• Interview that highlights and enables configuration of Compaq server features
• Installs Compaq optimized drivers, ROMPaqs and support software
• Automatic installation of Network Interface Card

SmartStart is delivered with every Compaq server.

Compaq Insight Manager
Compaq Insight Manager is also delivered with every server. Compaq Insight Manager provides comprehensive monitoring either on the network or remotely, ensuring smooth running of SCO UnixWare-based servers and options. The Insight Manager console is a 32-bit Windows application that can be run on a Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0 or Windows 95/98 machines. Compaq Insight Management Agents collect information that can be viewed by the console or any other SNMP management application.

Hardware Certification
Compaq certifies a full range of servers and options under SCO UnixWare 7. For a complete product certification listing, visit the SCO website at www.sco.com/chwp/owa/hch_search_form.

Compaq Recovery Server Option
The Compaq Recovery Server Option increases system availability for UnixWare 7 environments by allowing one Compaq ProLiant or ProSignia server to act as a standby for another similarly configured ProLiant or Prosignia server. In the Standby Recovery Server configuration, two Compaq servers are attached to a common set of ProLiant Storage Systems that contain a single copy of the operating system, application and data. If the primary server fails, each ProLiant Storage System automatically switches from the primary to the recovery server.

The recovery server then boots and the system is back online in minutes, without administrator intervention. The Compaq Standby Recovery Server is a server configuration provided by the Compaq Recovery Server Option. For more information on the Standby Recovery Server and Recovery Server Option, see www.compaq.com.

Service and Support
SCO UnixWare 7 products are fully supported by Compaq’s Technical Support Organization. Compaq personnel are trained to handle any SCO issues related to Compaq hardware and can directly escalate issues to SCO if necessary.

White Papers
Visit http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/partners/sco/index.html for the latest Compaq information on SCO products and integration.

Compaq and SCO Partnership
In August 1997, Compaq and SCO announced a Strategic Alliance between the two companies. In addition to enhancing efforts in the areas of joint engineering, service/support and testing, the alliance established a multi-million dollar joint worldwide marketing fund for the promotion of enterprise solutions based on SCO UNIX and Compaq Servers.

Also, in February 1998, SCO announced that Compaq and three other hardware OEMs had joined the SCO Data Center Acceleration Program. Compaq, SCO and the three other OEMs are committed to moving UnixWare forward into the Data Center market. Data Center-funded resources will drive enhancements to the reliability, scalability and availability of UnixWare 7.

For more information on the SCO partnership, visit http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/partners/sco/index.html.