SCO OpenServer Release 6 Sales Guide

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Model Numbers -- Upgrade Licenses

OpenServer 6 is designed to support upgrades from OpenServer 5.0.7 or OpenServer 5.0.6. All upgrades will require a fresh install of OpenServer 6. In-place upgrades are not currently supported. New for OpenServer 6 is the fact that all upgrade licenses are “Edition Sensitive” meaning that the correct license is required which corresponds to the Edition being upgraded. Two separate sets of upgrade licenses are available; one for upgrades from OpenServer 5.0.7 systems and one for OpenServer 5.0.6 systems.

Enterprise Upgrades: For current licensees of the OpenServer 5.0.7 or 5.0.6 Enterprise Edition, when upgrading to OpenServer 6, systems will be licensed for the same Edition and the new default levels for Users, CPUs and Memory. During the upgrade process all valid add-on additional user and CPU licenses may be added to complete the upgrade process. For example a 15 user (5 default plus a 10-user add-on license) OpenServer 5.0.7 or 5.0.6 Enterprise Edition after application of the OpenServer 6 upgrade will be licensed for 20 users (new default of 10 plus the 10-user add-on).

Desktop Upgrades: For OpenServer 5.0.7 or 5.0.6 of Desktop Edition licensees, upgrading to OpenServer 6 will result in the new Starter Edition with 2 users plus the ability to grow the system by adding users in increments of five (5) with the Starter Edition user add-on license or additional CPUs or expanded memory licenses. The current Desktop memory limit of 4 GB will also be supported for upgraded systems.

Host Upgrades: For OpenServer 5.0.7 or 5.0.6 of Host Edition licensees, upgrading to OpenServer 6 will also result in the new Starter Edition which comes with full networking support which is not included in current Host systems. Since OpenServer 5 Host Editions support five (5) users and 4 GB of memory, those limits will be retained. In the case of Host systems licensees who have added extra users beyond the default five, these extra add-on user licenses will not be usable on the upgraded system and will need to be exchanged for the equivalent number of the new Starter Edition 5-user add-on license. As with any Starter Edition, additional CPU, Maximum Memory and the 5-user licenses may be added to the system.

Host licensees may also choose to upgrade to the OpenServer 6 Enterprise Edition by purchasing a cross upgrade license.

 SCO Update Licensee Upgrades : For customers that licensed SCO Update for OpenServer 5.0.7, the SCO Update license either bundled or add-on version will serve as the upgrade license for OpenServer 6 and the information on specific Edition upgrades above will apply.

The following table contains the new model numbers and pricing for OpenServer 6 upgrades.

OpenServer 6 Upgrades - These are now Edition Specific

* Standard Upgrades from OpenServer 5.0.7 with 6 months of SCO Support bundled in

* Standard Upgrades from OpenServer 5.0.6 with 6 months of SCO Support bundled in

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