To ensure businesses make a smooth transition to Network Computing, SCO (Nasdaq: SCOC) today outlined how the company is moving forward to bring the innovative Tarantella technology ("Tarantella") to the enterprise market space. Leading enterprise connectivity software and Network Computer vendors are endorsing Tarantella as the framework for fast application delivery to any Java technology-enabled client. SCO also detailed a new adaptive networking protocol included in Tarantella which boosts performance of applications over the network.

Leading enterprise providers of Network Computers and mainframe and Windows connectivity solutions including CNT Brixton, Interface Systems, NCD, Starquest and Wyse are endorsing Tarantella as the framework for accessing business critical applications. These companies are working with SCO to ensure compatibility between their solutions and Tarantella for seamless integration with today's mainframe, AS400 and Windows applications. The companies are also working with SCO on joint marketing activities to promote Tarantella to the enterprise market.

"We recently announced a Tarantella business relationship with ICS which helps companies move existing graphical X applications to network computing," said Ray Anderson, SCO senior vice president marketing, product business unit. "Today's announcement is the next step in ensuring that Tarantella includes the pieces enterprise customers need to provide access from Java-enabled clients to their business critical applications. Companies can add Tarantella to their IT infrastructure and deliver these applications to PCs, NCs and any other device running a Java-enabled Web browser without any change to their existing applications."

New, Revolutionary Technology Boosts Network Performance

At SCO Forum97 today, SCO announced a new, revolutionary technology which optimizes network performance. The innovative Adaptive Internet Protocol (AIP) in Tarantella ensures that data is delivered to Java technology-enabled clients at optimum performance levels. AIP intelligently interrogates the network, application and client at connection time, and then continuously adapts itself to provide the highest level of application performance. The AIP technology is essential to enterprises moving to a Network Computing model. By making the best use of the variable bandwidth lines found in a typical enterprise environment, AIP allows IT organizations to provide fast and reliable application performance in a networked environment that meets users demanding information needs.

"IT managers can't forget the problems they encountered trying to implement a client/server computing model," said industry analyst Ron Cooke of the Network Client Business Group, author of a recent study on thin-client computing. "Tarantella ensures a smooth transition to the thin-client computing model with the benefits of centralized control and rapid delivery of applications to people throughout an organization."

From Break-Through Technology to an Enterprise Network Computing Solution

SCO announced the Tarantella technology in December 1996. Since that time, the Tarantella team has worked closely with a number of enterprise organizations to test performance of Tarantella and ensure that it meets their needs to optimally deliver applications in a Network Computing environment. At Forum97, SCO announced the Tarantella Preview Release 1. The Tarantella product will be announced this fall. For more information on Tarantella, visit the Tarantella website at http://www.tarantella.sco.com

About SCO

SCO is the world's leading supplier of UNIX server operating systems, and a leading provider of client-integration software that integrates Windows PCs and other clients with UNIX servers from all major vendors. SCO is committed to bringing the Internet Way of Computing to business-critical environments of all sizes. SCO Business Critical Servers run the critical, day-to-day operations of large branch organizations in retail, finance, telecom, and government, as well as corporate departments and small to medium-sized businesses of every kind. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs.