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NEW YORK-Away from its comfortable home on the west coast, the Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (SCO) put on a show here this month-just a tap dance away from Broadway-as it launched its newest entry in its family of next-generation business-critical servers.
SCO provider of Unix host and server systems, unveiled its 32-bit operating system, OpenServer Release 5 for the Intel platform.
But a few flubbed lines and the obvious discomfort of SCO president and chief operating officer Alok Mohan during staged on-stage interviews proved that the road from Northern California to the Great White Way is a difficult one to travel.
Still, buzzwords for the OpenServer product were easily found at the launch: reliability, scalability, availability, serviceability were all used with abandon by Mohan and others at SCO.
Mohan, however, was more comfortable away from the glitz. For example, when explaining what he and SCO mean when they use the term "business-critical server": "It's the vital, day-to-day business operations," he said. "It's accounting, order processing, transactions; it's the thousands of other applications that businesses require to function."
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