Abstracts of Breakout Sessions*

*Topics and Speakers: Subject to Change

OpenServer 6, The Most Reliable Operating System Just Got More Powerful

SCO OpenServer 6 establishes a new standard for rock-solid stability and dependability. It is a powerful, new, operating system with major performance improvements and greater application support. This session is a detailed review of OpenServer 6 features including increased memory and file size support, security enhancements, backward compatibility, support for Apache, Java® and Mozilla. This session will also cover performance improvements, licensing and pricing.

SCO Database Primer: Which Database Is Right For Your Environment?

Choosing the right database for your environment involves matching your requirements with the features and business and licensing terms offered by the various commercial data base vendors. In this session, SCO will present guidelines on choosing the right database for your environment, and the DB vendors will have the opportunity to discuss the advanced feature set and services of their products and services, including licensing terms and availability on SCO platforms.

Overview of OpenServer 6 Hardware

This session is a must for any customer of SCO to get a full overview into OpenServer 6 device driver configuration, management, and architecture. Other hardware sessions will delve deeper into some topics, but this session details thoroughly: OSR5 vs. OSR6, DCU, resmgr, mkdev interface, slice management, device nodes, certification program, SCT, CHWP, whitebox support, networking, wireless, X11, mpio, new vendor support, and other topics.

UnixWare and SCO OpenServer the Roadmap Ahead:  Birds of a Feather

This session covers SCO's Operating System roadmap plans.  The focus is new features planned for the UnixWare 7.1.4 and OpenServer 6 and the next major release code named Fusion.  A short formal presentation will be followed by an interactive birds-of-a-feather, (BOF), discussion. The resulting customer input will to help set the direction of future releases.  If needed this session will extend beyond its scheduled end time.

Future Platform Technologies

What new hardware technologies are OEMs like HP, Intel, Dell and others bringing your way this year? This session focused on new device, and technology support including: PCI Express, SAS/SATA, SAN, ACPI, Dual-Core, TOE, IOAT, Virtualization, and more and how SCO intends to leverage some of these technologies in future products.

What's New in Open Source for SCO Platforms

This session will detail newly introduced and upgraded Open Source components available for SCO OpenServer and UnixWare. The session will include a review of existing Open Source components, underscoring SCO's value-add in testing, integrating, maintaining and supporting the supplied components. We will list and describe what new Open Source components for SCO platforms we are providing and expect to provide in the near future.

The session will conclude with the introduction of SCO Skunkware 6, the 100 or so new Open Source technologies being released in custom installable format for OpenServer 6. A brief overview of SCO Professional Services' porting services for Open Source will also be provided.

Attendee feedback on issues raised in this session is highly desired as future work in this area is driven by customer, reseller and channel needs and requirements.

Marketing SCO OpenServer 6 - How We Can Help You

This session will help the SCO reseller better understand what tools, materials and programs are available to market OpenServer 6 to end-user customers in a fun and exciting game-centered environment. Prizes will be given out! This session will highlight the SCO electronic launch kit as well as the marketing resources CD. Also, the marketing team will outline how a reseller can use SCO marketing resources to market to its customer base.

PowerTerm Host Publisher, Extending Applications for Web and Wireless Access

This session will focus on PowerTerm Host Publisher, Ericom’s middleware product for rejuvenation and integration. PowerTerm Host Publisher provides a simple and quick solution for extending SCO-based and legacy system capabilities to the web and wireless devices. PowerTerm Host Publisher extends mission critical enterprise applications to wireless devices including: PDAs, PocketPC, BlackBerry, Palm and smart phones. As a rapid and secure solution, no changes are required to existing applications. Productivity and efficiencies are increased by empowering mobile employees such as Salespeople, Floor Managers, Service Technicians, Inspectors and others. Join this session to learn more about the features and benefits of PowerTerm Host Publisher.

Developing for SCO Platforms, including Single Certification between UnixWare and OpenServer

This session will describe the Development Systems on SCO platforms, with emphasis on SCO OpenServer 6. Attention will be given to C and C++ compilers, debuggers, performance capabilities, and memory error checking tools. This session will also describe how ISVs and developers can create a single application binary that runs on both UnixWare 7 and OpenServer 6, thereby expanding their potential market while reducing their internal development costs.

HP Proliant Servers: Remote Management And New Features

The HP breakout session will focus on ProLiant servers and the ProLiant advantage with an emphasis on SCO UNIX support, certification, and remote management capabilities.

What makes a ProLiant a ProLiant – chassis design, performance, testing, remote management, standards, and system firmware.  We will focus on several new ProLiant models that drive HP’s market share lead in the SCO UNIX market: the ProLiant ML150 G2, the ML350 G4p (performance model), and the DL380 G4 SAS.

Remote management capabilities set ProLiant apart from our competitors.  We will answer the SCO UNIX IT manager’s challenges:

• Ensuring system availability
• Increasing staff productivity
• Reducing operational costs
• Maintaining a secure IT environment
• Maximizing Return on IT assets

Finally HP will discuss the delivery of value-add server support software for the SCO UNIX operating systems.  The Extended Features Supplement (EFS) and Management Agents for UnixWare and SCO OpenServer provide customers the drivers and features needed to optimize SCO UNIX performance on ProLiant servers.

Upgrading to the Power of OpenServer 6

For OpenServer 5 customers looking to upgrade to the power of OpenServer 6, this session provides a detailed look on how to migrate your existing configuration and data, changes you should be aware of and how to configure the new features. We will cover all aspects of the system, including hardware configuration, user accounts, email, networking configuration, filesystems, X11, system administration and more.

PowerTerm Webconnect For Secure Windows and Legacy Host Access

This technical session will focus on PowerTerm WebConnect for OpenServer 6 and UnixWare – SCO’s Citrix® alternative. Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect provides SCO customers with a comprehensive server-based computing solution that allows secure local and remote access to SCO character-based applications, Windows applications running on Windows Terminal Server 2000 / 2003 / 2003 x64, and legacy applications running on IBM Mainframe, IBM AS/400, OpenVMS, Tandem and more. As a robust solution, PowerTerm WebConnect includes Application Publishing, Seamless Windows, Load Balancing, SSL Gateway, SSH, SFTP, Active Directory integration, Remote Desktop Support and more. Join this session to learn more about the features and benefits of PowerTerm WebConnect.

Protect Your Investment in SCO

This session will show you how you can increase your revenue by offering mission critical business applications and high availability hardware for your SCO-based systems. We will discuss web-based software for web content management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and computer telephone integration (CTI). These programs are based on Open Source technologies and provide full integration of your business data along with web and wireless access. Also, if you have ever tried to achieve high availability for mission critical applications by implementing a cluster, you need to see this new hardware server technology available through Team 1 Systems, Inc. This new hardware technology provides higher levels of availability (99.999%) which is easier to implement for a lower cost than any other solution in the market today.

Maximizing Bandwidth Productivity with Cymphonix Network Composer

Cymphonix will show you how to help your customers get the most from their network bandwidth. The easy-to-use Network Composer appliance will optimize bandwidth usage according to your specifications. It supports web filtering, Spyware protection, peer-to-peer traffic control, Instant Message Logging, Real Time traffic monitoring, and bandwidth optimization.

H.A. Clusters for SCO: How High Availability Will P rotect Customer Environments—and Add Value to Your Sale

With the recent certification of H.A. Clusters on SCO platforms, Lakeview Technology delivers a leading solution for information availability on OpenServer 6.0 and UnixWare 7.1.4. Why is this important to our future together? What gives this product the edge in your marketplace? How will your customers benefit? Who is Lakeview Technology? And what’s in it for you?

This session covers the top line and bottom line benefits of making H.A. Clusters for SCO part of your solutions portfolio. Rick McNees, Lakeview Technology’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, will cover the strategic alliance between SCO and Lakeview Technology, including market coverage and support plan; provide a brief background and history of Lakeview and its experience with open systems; discuss the growing marketplace for high availability, including targets, users, and solutions; and provide an overview of the H.A. Clusters for SCO solution.

Installing & Configuring Samba 3 on OpenServer Release 6 and UnixWare 7.14

We’ll review the steps required to install and configure the current builds of Samba for OSR6 and UnixWare, as well as reviewing security options, use of SWAT, configuring shares, and accessing Windows resources from Unix. The presentation will provide a step by step guide and will highlight differences between the two implementations. A basic knowledge of Windows Networking is assumed.

SCO Java and Web Services Roadmap

This session will give an update on the status of Java technologies
for SCO OpenServer and UnixWare. This includes greatly improved
performance of the core Java Virtual Machine on SCO OpenServer;
Java application server support; and Java serial/parallel I/O support.
The session will then discuss how to create and deploy SOAP-based
web services on SCO OpenServer and UnixWare, for both Java and other languages such as C, C++, Perl, and PHP. Finally, the state of the
SCOx Web Services Substrate technologies and services will be discussed.

IP Telephony and Application Integration

This session will provide an overview of FacetPhone, recipient of the Internet Telephony Conference's 2004 Best of Show award and Internet Telephony Magazine's 2004 Product of the Year award.  FacetPhone is an IP-PBX telephone system for small to medium size businesses.  Discover how to easily integrate OpenServer applications with this state-of-the-art VoIP telephone system.

Developing Business Applications Using the Java-based BASIS IDE

Learn how to use the BASIS IDE as a development dashboard to develop and maintain your business applications. Discover some of the newest BBx (Business BASIC extended) language features including object-oriented syntax, embedded Java, and the new Form Object. Explore the integrated data dictionary, source code control, data file views and management of the BASIS database, and development tools. Demonstrations and discussion topics also include Web services, form printing, and other new language enhancements.

Replication Tools for SCO UnixWare and SCO OpenServer

This session will provide an introduction to the replication tools available for SCO UnixWare - UnixWare Replication Kit (URK) and SCO OpenServer 6 - Mass Installation Toolkit (MIT). These replication tools provide a method of quickly duplicating the complex environment of Operating System, hardware, applications, device drivers, and data to any number of suitably configured target machines, requiring minimal user intervention. The session will cover hardware and software requirements and close with a demonstration of the replication tool on SCO OpenServer 6.

Replace your Windows box with SCO UNIX

This session offers insight into new technologies on SCO UNIX that can empower you to replace and consolidate your Windows applications on UNIX. These technologies to be discussed will include Office for SCO UNIX, Windows runtime environment on UNIX, SCO Virtualization strategy, Microsoft Exchange alternative and a Secure environment to run Remote Windows applications. The session will also highlight some of the Windows interoperability features on SCO UNIX.

Intel Server Products and Technology Overview

What server hardware is appropriate for your next design win?  What is FBD memory and how is it different from DDR2 memory?  When will SAS come into the mainstream?OpenServer 6, The Most Reliable Operating System Just Got More Powerful SCO OpenServer 6 establishes a new standard for rock-solid stability and dependability. It is a powerful, new, operating system with major performance improvements and greater application support. This session is a detailed review of OpenServer 6 features including increased memory and file size support, security enhancements, backward compatibility, support for Apache, Java® and Mozilla. This session will also cover performance improvements, licensing and pricing.

Speakers: John Maciaszek, Richard Harry
	Tuesday	1:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Room 101

Introduction to Lowering Database Costs Through Developing, Using, and Managing Databases with MySQL

With this session you will first become familiar with MySQL on SCO. As part of the introduction we'll introduce you to MySQL and the recently introduced MySQL Network.

From a technical perspective we'll cover the basics, including day-to-day maintenance. More advanced topics will be covered such as simple performance tuning and using MySQL in distributed SCO environments. Further, in this session you will learn how costs can be controlled by reducing downtime, simplifying administration, and streamlining the system.

Meeting Today's Security Needs with IPSEC, VPN and IPFilter

This session is an in depth tutorial on how to use the tools and protocols available to configure systems for secure communication, NAT and firewalls. The IPsec (secure IP) protocol suite and associated tools provides the ability to encrypt and authenticate IP packets transmitted between cooperating hosts or subnets. Virtual Private Networks result from configuring secure communications between machines using IPsec and associated tools. Ipfilter provides for firewall configuration and/or enables Network Address Translation, NAT. NAT also known as IP-masquerading allows multiple machines to share a single public network address.

SCOoffice Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

This session covers topics of interest to beginning and experienced mail system administrators wishing to improve their troubleshooting skills and understanding of the SCOoffice Mail Server. Focus will be on the core components supporting successful mail delivery with regard to data-store repair, logging, configuration and migration issues.

The WebClient and the Connector will be briefly discussed.

SCO Legal Update

SCOoffice Birds of a Feather

This year SCO is introducing a program to help resellers create a quick-install SCOoffice Server appliance based on OpenServer 5.0.7, SCOoffice Server 4.1, and MicroLite BackupEDGE. At this session we will demonstrate the appliance installation and describe how to create a master. In addition we'll discuss features under consideration for future versions of SCOoffice Server and we'll present the current development roadmap. There will also be plenty of time for Q &A and to collect your feedback on the product.

SCO OpenServer 6 Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

Understand the tools that SCO delivers to assist out customers in troubleshooting a system being installed or migrated from a previous release. This session focuses on installing and managing an OSR6 deployment including slice management, ISL, hardware requirements, useful boot parameters, data migration, networking, graphics, and other topics related to bringing a customers system up quickly.

Speakers Alex Sack, Richard Harry
	Tuesday	3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Room 103