SCO Forum 2006









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Welcome to Forum 2006
August 6-9, 2006

The Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas

Welcome to SCO Forum™ 2006, the premier UNIX and application mobility conference that brings together industry-leading vendors, practitioners, and customers to help you plan for and guide you to your destination: UNIX platform management and mobilizing applications. Collaborate with your peers, attend technical breakout sessions and learn about the latest developments and best practices in managing, securing, upgrading and supporting UNIX systems and how to easily mobilize applications using the new SCO EdgeClickTM platform. Due to popular demand, SCO Forum 2006 is being extended an additional day to add more technical breakout sessions.

SCO Forum 2006

At SCO Forum 2006, learn how to get the most out of your SCO UNIX relationship and gain insight into the value of upgrading applications to the new OpenServer 6 platform. Attend technical sessions on how to easily and cost-effectively mobilize existing applications to help customers take advantage of the burgeoning mobile market with EdgeClick. Learn more about reducing the costs of owning, operating and supporting UNIX servers using HP Proliant™ Servers as well as the MySQL™ database solutions certified on SCO OpenServer 6. Find out more about SCO business strategies, product roadmaps, SOA, attend birds-of-a feather sessions, and hear from industry luminaries to help you effectively make money and cost effectively offer alternatives for customers that are more reliable and easier to maintain. Attend developer-instructed technical sessions on SCO UNIX, HA Clusters, On-Line Data Manager and Mirroring, SOA, Digital Services and many more. SCO Forum 2006 offers breakout sessions that provide the insight and expertise you are looking for.

At this year's Forum you will learn how to easily upgrade your systems to SCO OpenServer 6 and using the security features in SCO UNIX to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. You will also learn about the advantages of implementing the SCAMP solutions stack based on SCO UNIX, high availability clustering solutions, and running Windows® applications on SCO OpenServer. As part of SCO Forum, keynotes and training will focus on development platforms and web services for designing and implementing mobile services, including service-oriented architectures (SOA), Java, and many others. These EdgeClick break out sessions will be particularly valuable to developers with previous experience using .NET, C#, J2ME, SOAP, XML, SOA, SMS and GPRS/EDGE technologies.

SCO Forum 2006 will also include a Trade Show area demonstrating the latest UNIX applications, hardware and technologies from SCO partners.

FREE NFR Copies of SCO Software

All attendees will receive free NFR copies of SCO products.

And, if you stay with us at the Mirage Hotel, the $300 conference fee is waived! SCO Forum 2006 is a conference you can't afford to miss!

Agenda

Sunday, August 6
4 pm – 8 pm    Registration Open
6 pm – 7:30 pm    Welcome reception and Vendor Fair

Monday, August 7
7:30 am – 8:30 am    Breakfast and Vendor Fair
8:30 am – 9:00 am    General Session; Keynote – Darl McBride
10:00 am – 11:00 am    Product Roadmap
11:00 am – 11:15 am    HP/SCO Customer Testimonial
11:15 am – 12:00 pm    Keynote – Industry Luminary
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm    Lunch & Vendor Fair
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm    Technical and Business Breakout Sessions
3:20 pm – 5:00 pm    Technical and Business Breakout Sessions

Tuesday, August 8
7:30 am – 8:30 am    Breakfast and Vendor Fair
8:30 am – 12:00 pm    Technical and Business Breakout Sessions
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm    Lunch & Vendor Fair
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm    Technical and Business Breakout Sessions

Wednesday, August 9
7:30 am – 8:30 am    Breakfast and Vendor Fair
8:30 am – 12:00 pm    Technical and Business Breakout Sessions
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm    Lunch & Vendor Fair
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm    Closing Session and Prizes

Breakout Sessions Announced*

The following breakout sessions are scheduled during the conference.

Best Practices In Upgrading To OpenServer 6 122,131
Database Primer: Choosing The Right Database for Your Environment 101
Optimizing Your Hardware Investments 102
Implementing SCO HA Business Continuity Clustering 103
How to Configure/Customize Action by Me Inc. 104
Building Applications for the Edgeclick Framework 105
UnixWare and SCO OpenServer Directions: Immediately followed by Birds of a Feather session 106
SCO UNIX & Edgeclick Developer Program 107
SOX, PCI Compliance and Migration Services 108
Making Money Today With Shout by Me Inc. 109
Building EdgeClick clients for cell phones and smartphones with Java ME 110
Protect and Manage Your SCO OS and Data using ODM and Mirroring 111
MergePRO - Windows XP and Windows 2000 applications running on SCO UNIX 112
Making Money With Edgeclick 113
How to Use Shout Effectively 114
UnixWare and SCO OpenServer Directions 115
Open Source at SCO 116
SCOoffice Server 4.2 117
Mobile monitoring of SCO UNIX and Windows using EdgeClick HipCheck 118
Using EdgeBuilder & Eclipse to develop EdgeClick Applications 119
HP Successes on SCO, plus HP Servers and Storage for 2007 120
Upgrading to UnixWare 7.1.4 121
Best Practices in Upgrading to OpenServer 6 122,131
Integrated Development Environments for SCO Unix 123
EdgeClick Programming Approaches for Access to Corporate Data 124
How to install and configure SCO's High Availability Cluster 125
Developing for SCO UNIX Platforms 126,137
Protect and Manage Your SCO OS and Data using ODM and Mirroring 127
Mobility and SOA Technical Session 128
Smartphone client programming in .NET for EdgeClick Solutions 129
Securing SCO UNIX Platforms 130
SCO UNIX Diagnostics and Troubleshooting 132
Mobility and SOA Business Session 133
Edgeclick End User and Professional Service Case Studies 134
My SQL 135
Windows & SCO UNIX in mixed environments 136
Making Money With Edgeclick 138
Overview of 3G/GSM/CDMA Networks 139
Success Stories in Moving to OpenServer 6 140
Optimizing Your Hardware Investments 141
Tricks on getting OpenServer 5, UnixWare, SCO Unix and SCO Xenix applications running on SCO OpenServer 6 142
Hands-on Edgeclick Training 144
SOX, PCI Compliance and Migration Services 145
Using SAMBA with Active Directory 147
See all breakout sessions

Attendee Registration for SCO Forum 2006 HERE

SCAMP - The Better Stack

SCO Forum 2006 will emphasize SCAMP - The Better Stack™ and Server Oriented Architecture (SOA). Breakout sessions will focus on SCO OpenServer 6, in-depth technology overviews, and an examination of exciting new SCO technologies. We'll also have time for networking during Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.

New! Demo Labs for Night-Owls

New to SCO Forum is a late night lab staffed by SCO engineers where you can ask technical questions, try installation routines, test applications, and receive impromptu training on key technical issues of your choice.

The Mirage Hotel and Casino

The perfect location
Ther Mirage is located in the middle of the electrifying Vegas strip. From your hotel,you can literally walk to a myriad of shopping , convention, gaming, dining, and entertaiment venues.

Those who do not book reservations at the Mirage Hotel will be charged the $300 conference fee at the time of the registration.

Register at the Mirage Hotel here and get specially discounted rates.

FREE NFR Copies of SCO Software

All attendees will receive free NFR copies of SCO products.

 

Attendee Registration for SCO Forum 2006 HERE

Those who do not book reservations at the Mirage Hotel will be charged the $300 conference fee at the time of registration.

 

 

Sponsor Information

Platinum Sponsor
SCO and HP have been partners in leading edge technology since the mid-1980s, when most PCs were single-task, single-user systems and the term "server" was unknown.

The HP/SCO partnership harnessed the latent power of microcomputers with SCO UNIX to bring mainframe and minicomputer capabilities like multi-user and multi-tasking to the desktop.
 
Gold Sponsor
SCO and MySQL AB have teamed to create the ideal applications platform SMB and replicated/branch enterprise computing environments.

With SCO and MySQL, you gain the competitive advantages offered by both open standards and open source.

Interested in exhibiting at SCO Forum 2006? Have your own 10 x 10 booth to reach many people with your solutions. Other sponsorship opportunities available as well.
Contact: Todd Ashman
tashman@sco.com
(801) 932-5424

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*Session availability subject to change without notice.