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Elimination of CPU licenses for OpenServer 6 and UnixWare 7.1.4
HipCheck 1.1 available in hosted mode
Hardware certification
New Supplements and Skunkware Updates
Solutions - known to work - SugarCRM on OpenServer 6

Elimination of CPU licenses for OpenServer 6 and UnixWare 7.1.4

Effectively from 01.02.2008 there is no need to purchase licenses for additional CPUs on OpenServer 6 and UnixWare 7.1.4 any more.
SCO OpenServer 6 or UnixWare 7.1.4 customers can now use as many CPUs as the OS supports - without the need to license any additional CPUs. There is a free supplement available for download for both OpenServer 6 and UnixWare 7.1.4 that needs to be installed in order to change the licensing behavior.
These processor licensing updates for OpenServer 6.0.0 and UnixWare 7.1.4 are now live on the Web Download and FTP sites.

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver6/600/patches/oss708a/VOL.000.000 (OpenServer 6)
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/patches/ptf9054a/ptf9054.image (UnixWare 7.1.4)

From the OSS708A (OpenServer 6) Readme File:
"OSS708A eliminates the need for additional CPU and CPU Trade-In Licenses for OpenServer 6 by enabling as many CPUs as the OS supports regardless of what processor licenses have been applied. Currently, the OS will support up to 32 logical CPUs, i.e., 32 single, 16 dual, or 8 quad core."
Example: 
If you use OpenServer 6 Enterprise, you already have 4 physical CPUs licensed with the product. If these CPUs are all quad core CPUs, then you already can use 16 logical CPUs. If you now install 2 or 4 more physical CPUs, in the past you would need to purchase additional SMP licenses for OpenServer 6. Now, if you have installed OSS708A, you can add more physical CPUs and use them, without purchasing additional CPU licenses.
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HipCheck 1.1 available in hosted mode

A new version of the subscription service for pro actively monitoring and managing UNIX® and Windows® Systems, HipCheck, is online at
http://hipcheck.me-inc.com. It's a free of charge update for current HipCheck 1.0 customers.

A version for deployment in your own IT environment instead of using the hosted service , will be available soon.
Also check http://www.sco.de/produkte/hipcheck/whatsnew.html for more details.

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Hardware certification

New Servers from Dell (PowerEdge 1950 III), HP (ProLiant BL460c) and Intel (S3200SHL) have been certified or have been updated with new information or tested as compatible. (OpenServer 6 and UnixWare)

The Perc 6i/SAS (LSISAS1078 chipset, SAS RAID) controller from Dell has been certified.

The HP StorageWork Tape LTO-4 1840 (SCSI version) has been certified for OpenServer 6, UnixWare 7.1.4 and OpenServer 5.0.7. The tape drive has been certified on a Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 and a LSI 53C1020 Ultra320 SCSI controller. The SAS version of that Tpe was already certified before.

For more details check the SCO hardware database

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New Supplements and Skunkware updates

Updated Apache Tomcat Connector for UnixWare

A new version (the same that is available for OpenServer 6 already) is now available at:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/other/modjk_1_2_25

New Skunkware Updates

An updated version of Midnight Commander for OpenServer 6.0.0 and UnixWare 7.1.4 is available.