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SCO PROVIDES EXCLUSIVE INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION FOR MICROLITE CORPORATION SCO and Microlite agreement provides SCO with all distribution of Microlite BackupEDGE for OpenServer and UnixWare outside of North America LINDON, Utah, Oct. 12, 2004 /PRNewswire/FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), owner of the UNIX® operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, today
announced that Microlite Corporation has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for SCO to be the Master Distributor of Microlite products to all international markets outside North America. Through SCO's
large international reseller channel and sales offices, the company will handle all international sales and distribution of Microlite BackupEDGE, a leading solution for backup, restore and disaster recovery on SCO
UnixWare and SCO OpenServer systems.BackupEDGE supports a wide variety of storage devices from CD/DVD writers to enterprise tape libraries, and has state-of-the-art integrity checking, compression, automated
scheduling, disaster recovery and strong data encryption for SCO servers. "Microlite has been a long time SCO partner and we're pleased to have the opportunity to work more closely with them in bringing UNIX solutions
to our mutual customers," said Jeff Hunsaker, Senior Vice President and General Manager of SCO's UNIX Division. "The combination of SCO UnixWare and SCO OpenServer with Microlite's BackupEDGE provides SCO customers with
a strong foundation for running their business." "SCO provides customers with stable and reliable operating system platforms, and BackupEDGE provides additional safety and security in the event of a catastrophic
hardware failure or accidental file erasure," said Tom Podnar, president of Microlite Corporation. "We look forward to working more closely with SCO and their reseller channel to expand the reach of Microlite products
throughout the world." About SCO The SCO Group (NASDAQ: SCOX) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday. Headquartered in
Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO
products and services, visit http://www.sco.com.
About Microlite Corporation Microlite Corporation has been serving the UNIX community since 1983, and has been producing high-quality backup and disaster recovery software since 1987. For more
information, visit www.microlite.com
or contact Microlite Sales at 724-375-6711 or 888-257-3343, or by emailing to sales@microlite.com. SCO, SCO OpenServer and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group,
Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. BackupEDGE is a trademark of Microlite Corporation. UNIX and UnixWare are registered trademarks of The Open Group. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and
are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners. ### |
