From: info@sco.COM (SCO Information)
Subject: New Product of the Year Press Release
Organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:51:25 GMT
Followup-To: biz.sco.general

For Immediate Release
CONTACT:

Patricia Buchanan                         Zee Zaballos
Blanc & Otus                              The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
TEL: 415/546-8080                         TEL: 408/425-7222
FAX: 415/546-8090                         FAX: 408/427-5448


        SCO ANNOUNCES SCO OPEN DESKTOP PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR

            Revised List of Winning Products Announced

SANTA CRUZ, CA (September 2, 1992) -- Following a detailed review
of contest entries, SCO today announced a revised list of winning
products in the second annual SCO Open Desktop Products of the
Year Contest. The five winners were selected from 15 finalists
which represent the power and diversity of the year's best
software and hardware products compatible with SCO Open Desktop,
SCO's advanced, integrated environment for 386 and 486
workstations and servers.

First released in January, 1990, SCO Open desktop supports more
than 300 graphical applications, as well as thousands of other
UNIX System, XENIX, and MS-DOS applications. In addition, SCO
Open Desktop supports more than 800 standard and specialty
peripherals. SCO Open Desktop integrates the SCO UNIX System, a
graphical user interface, networking, and MS-DOS services in a
single integrated package.

An independent panel of judges selected the winners from more
than 60 competing independent software and hardware vendors in
five product categories: Software Development Tools, Peripheral-
Hardware Products, Business Application Products, System Utilities,
and Engineering - Scientific Applications.

The winning products and companies in their respective categories are:

Software Development Tool
Interactive Development Environments, Inc. Software through Pictures

Peripheral/Hardware Product
Command Corporation, BUG Voice Interface

Business Application Product
Applix, Inc., Aster*x

Engineering/Scientific Product
B.V. Electronic A/S, System 2000

System Utility
VERITAS Software Corporation, VERITAS Visual Administrator (VxVA)

"These winning products demonstrate the ability of SCO Open Desktop
to address a wide range of application and end-user requirements,"
said Roberta Gray, director of SCO Developer Relations.  "The 
availability of these products positions SCO Open Desktop as a 
strong desktop platform, as well as a high-end server system for the
most demanding enterprise computing requirements."

The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) is a privately held company
recognized internationally as the business choice for open systems
software. SCO's wide range of UNIX System software solutions for
386/486 computers includes SCO Open Desktop, the SCO UNIX Operating
System, and the SCO MPX multiprocessor extension, plus 
interoperability software, development tools, and comprehensive
consulting, training and support services. To date, SCO has shipped
over 750,000 UNIX Systems -- more than any other vendor -- and fields
one of the largest UNIX System technical teams in the world. Founded
in 1979, SCO maintains corporate business and development headquarters
in Sanat Cruz, California, London, and Toronto, and major regional 
offices in Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Mexico City, Milan, Paris, Singapore, 
Sydney, Tokyo, and throughout the U.S.A.

SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, Open Desktop, SCO MPX, and ``The
Business Choice'' are registered trademarks or trademarks of The
Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the U.S.A. and other countries. All
other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are
used to identify products or services of, their respective
owners.

SCO Open Desktop Products of the Year 1992

Software Development Tool
Interactive Development Environments, Inc., Software through Pictures

Software through Pictures Integrated Structured Environment (ISE)
is a multiuser integrated CASE environment that supports the
entire software development process for technical and commercial
applications. ISE includes graphical editors as well as code and
documentation generators, all sharing a common repository.
Contact: Cynthia Padnos, 415/543-0900

Peripheral/Hardware Product
Command Corporation, BUG Voice Interface

BUG Voice Interface allows the creation of voice-interactive
applications for full control of X11 and Motif functions.
Intuitive, user-defined spoken commands allow the user to control
applications in conjunction with the keyboard and mouse for
improved productivity.  Contact: Robert Adams, 404/925-7950

Business Application Product
Applix, Inc., Aster*x

Aster*x is a robust suite of of applications that lets users
create, edit, and share information across networks of X-based
workstations, PCs, and Macintosh systems. Aster*x provides users
with all the tools needed to communicate effectively and
efficiently, including WYSIWYG word processing, integrated
graphics, macro tools, spreadheets, and mail. Contact:  Jim Morton,
508/870-0300

Engineering and Scientific Product
B.V. Electronic A/S, System 2000

System 2000 is a graphical user interface (GUI) supervisory
system for process control. The product allows system
administrators to custom configure graphics, process pictures,
supervise data, create either graphical or tabular alarm reports,
and provide alarm dial-up to on-duty voice messages or reports.
Contact: Claus Nielson, 011-45-9-752-022 (Denmark)

System Utility
VERITAS Software Corporation, VERITAS Visual Administrator (VxVA)

VERITAS Visual Administrator (V x VA) allows users to graphically
administer disk storage and implement disk array configurations,
using the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM). With a mouse, users can
do online performance analysis and tuning, implement mirrored and
striped configurations and move contents from one disk to
another, all without bringing the system down or interrupting
users.  Contact: Laurent Gharda, 408/727-1222.


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